Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a tattooed 6-foot-8 Democrat considering a run for Senate next year, has sparked a free speech war at the Pennsylvania state Capitol after he hung the pro-legalization green leaf and LGBTQ rights flags from the balcony of his office, which overlooks the state Capitol’s front steps and much of downtown Harrisburg. “The GOP collectively shrugged when a couple of its members were photographed down in D.C.
on Jan. 6, but my pride and weed flags are a point of outrage for them?” Fetterman told NBC News, referring to the day of the deadly Capitol riot.
The Republican-controlled Legislature quietly inserted a provision to ban unauthorized flags on Capitol grounds into an omnibus budget bill that passed late