As Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman recovers from a stroke while running for senator, his wife has emerged as a passionate voice — not only for him but for others.
“If she wanted to run for office, she would have a strong following and a decent fundraising first quarter,” Crampsie says.
Her parents divorced when she was young; her mother brought her and her brother to the United States when Gisele was 7. It had been summer when they left Brazil, and she arrived wearing canvas sneakers and a light jacket, surprised by the chill of New York winters. It was a few years before another reveal — that her family was undocumented.
Later, it was the memory of seeing all the perfectly good, discarded things on the streets of New York that gave her the idea to open the Free Store, a place for Braddock residents to come for anything from food to toys. Other free stores have opened across the state with her help. “I had a gentleman who came to the Free Store for food, and I gave him like, a couple of meals from Costco,” she says, “And then my mom called, and I answered in Portuguese, and then he made a really disparaging comment.” He was a veteran and told her that “your people” had taken all the jobs. It wasn’t as frightening as the time she was— an incident that made headlines in the United States and Brazil — but she’s tearing up at the memory.
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