{"id":4694,"date":"2025-01-09T20:48:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-fettermans-communications-director-departs\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:48:37","slug":"john-fettermans-communications-director-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-fettermans-communications-director-departs\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman’s communications director departs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. John Fetterman\u2019s top communications aide has left his office, a person close to the senator said.<\/p>\n

Carrie Adams had joined Fetterman\u2019s office as communications director after he lost three top staffers<\/a> in a matter of months, then drew criticism<\/a> last year after she was quoted openly disagreeing with her boss\u2019 stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict in an August interview with the Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amid the public backlash, Adams remained on Fetterman\u2019s staff. She had been with the office since April 2024.<\/p>\n

Fetterman\u2019s shifting political persona in Congress has shocked many who worked for him during his 2022 campaign. While he eschewed the “progressive” label, he had endorsed Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run and advocated for some left-wing policies in his campaign. <\/p>\n

In recent weeks alone, he\u2019s made a habit of taking time to speak to President Donald Trump\u2019s nominees and of reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans on legislation. He’s scheduled to meet with Trump<\/a> in Florida this weekend. Fetterman has been one of the most outspoken pro-Israel Democrats since Hamas’ October 2023 attack. <\/p>\n

The person close to Fetterman said Adams left the office at the beginning of the month and \u201con good terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas Wu contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. John Fetterman\u2019s top communications aide has left his office, a person close to the senator said. Carrie Adams had joined Fetterman\u2019s office as communications director after he lost three top staffers in a matter of months, then drew criticism last year after she was quoted openly disagreeing with her boss\u2019 stance on the Israel-Hamas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}