It’s no secret that Pennsylvania’s two most powerful Democrats do not get along.

Sen. John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro are stylistic opposites who have butted heads over the years. Now Fetterman, in his newly released memoir, Unfettered, is recounting his version of why that is.

By Fetterman’s telling, it stems from their time serving together on the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. Fetterman, then lieutenant governor and the board’s chair, was so bothered by then-Attorney General Shapiro’s unwillingness to grant a commutation to two men that Fetterman threatened in a private meeting to run against Shapiro for governor if he did not 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 prefe

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