Archive for 'US Senate'
Watch out for pro-Toomey distortions!
from PA2010.com, 8/25/10: Another outside group targets Sestak; errs on some facts Yet another conservative group is buying TV time against Democratic Senate nominee Joe Sestak. The latest 30-second spot comes from Crossroads GPS, a group spearheaded by Karl Rove among others. It hits Sestak for supporting President Obama’s so-called “big government health care scheme.” [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2010 under US Senate.
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Ex-Sen. Hagel backing Pa.’s Sestak for US Senate
Associated Press Writer Peter Jackson, at Yahoo!News, 8/23/10 HARRISBURG, Pa. – Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican who has broken ranks in the past with the GOP, gave Democrat Joe Sestak his second major endorsement from moderates in a week in his bid for a hotly contested Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Hagel told The [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2010 under US Senate.
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Clinton: Sestak ‘knows how to solve problems’
by Donald Hoegg, pa2010, 8/10/10 SCRANTON—Former President Bill Clinton talked up his party’s Senate candidate at a campaign rally here Tuesday, even as Joe Sestak himself was stuck in Washington because of a House vote on federal aid to state governments. Clinton was in town as part of a busy campaign day in the Keystone [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2010 under US Senate.
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The environment and 2 PA races
by Chris Bowman, from wcborodems.org/, 7/5/10 I’m working in Philadelphia this summer, and on my way to lunch this past Friday I was stopped by a Greenpeace volunteer asking for donations. One stat she mentioned particularly struck me: “In ten years, if we do not change our environmental impact, practices and policies, we will cause [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2010 under Energy/Environment, US Congress PA-16, US Senate.
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Lies on TV
by email, 7/21/10 If you’ve heard about the TV ads that are lying about Joe Sestak’s voting record, well you not the only one. In fact two TV stations pulled down the ads for their inaccuracies and then for some reason, despite acknowledging the falsehoods, decided to start airing them again. Earlier this week, Chairman [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2010 under US Senate.
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Specter Calls on Senators to Use Kagan Hearings as Opportunity to Assert Congress’s Power
From Senator Specter’s site. “Let’s sharpen our lines of questioning, colleagues.” Washington, D.C. Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), a 30-year veteran of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took to the Senate floor yesterday to expose the imbalance of power between the three coequal branches of government. In advance of Monday’s confirmation hearings [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2010 under Law judiciary justice, US Senate.
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(Pat Toomey must be kidding, right?)
From: “Rich Sestak, Campaign Director” Subject: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” Date: Jun 18, 2010 10:55 AM Even after the BP catastrophe, Pat Toomey still wants to drill in the Great Lakes. Yesterday, Erie’s No.1 newscast reported on Pat Toomey’s visit there: “Toomey believes [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2010 under Energy/Environment, US Senate.
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Why vote for Senator?
by Chris Bowman, 6/6/10 This fall’s Senatorial race will not be decided by incumbency as most congressional elections are. Nor will this race be decided upon any singular issue like gun control, abortion, or gay marriage. The contrast between political parties at present exceeds the myopic focus of any past solitary issue. Instead, the recent [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2010 under US Senate, Voting.
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From the Sestak campaign,
Sestak 46% – Toomey 42%. We lead former Congressman Pat Toomey, the winner of the Pennsylvania Republican primary, by four points in the first poll released (Rasmussen) since we and the families of Pennsylvania won the Democratic primary. We need your support to quickly replenish our financial coffers to catch-up to Pat Toomey who has [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2010 under US Senate.
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Arlen and Little Victor
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., shakes hands with Victor Cozzone, 7, of Exton, during his campaign rally at Gateway Park, Saturday, May 15, 2010, in Coatesville.
Posted: May 21st, 2010 under US Senate.
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