Senator John Fetterman describes his fallout with Governor Josh Shapiro of Abington Township in a new memoir titled “Unfettered”, USA TODAY reported.

Fetterman, a 56-year-old former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, says he and Shapiro met in 2008 while serving as Electoral College voters for incoming President Barack Obama. His professional differences with Shapiro began while they served together on the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. According to his account, Shapiro, who was Pennsylvania’s Attorney General at the time, refused to grant a commutation to two men (a commutation is the substitution of a lesser penalty for that given after a conviction for a crime. The penalty can be lessened in severity, in duration, or both).

Fetterman threated to run against Shapiro for governor if he didn’t change his mind.

“I told him there were two tracks — that one and the one in which he ran for governor and I ran for the Senate (which was the one I preferred),“ Fetterman wrote in the memoir. ”I had no interest in friction, only in what I felt was justice. Shapiro was far more cautious, and at a certain point, I began to think that what was influencing him was not mere caution but political ambition. I believe what drove him to delay and deny applications was not the facts of a given case as much as a fear that someone whose sentence he’d commuted would go on to commit terrible violence on the outside.”

Their relationship never recovered, according to Fetterman.

Aside from his political career, the book focuses on Fetterman’s struggles with mental health and his recovery from a stroke. You can purchase a copy here.

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