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Bill Clinton Approached Joe Sestak To Drop Senate Bid At White House Request
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyFormer President Bill Clinton approached Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) at the request of the White House to suggest that the congressman drop his Senate bid in exchange for a position in the Obama administration. The revelation is in a report by Bob Bauer, the White House counsel, who conducted an internal investigation into the matter. Despite the information about Clinton's efforts, Bauer states definitively, "We have concluded that allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law." Bauer's report details efforts made in June and July 2009 to assess Sestak's ...
Why Eric Holder Should Investigate Joe Sestak's Job Allegation
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe polite letter to Attorney General Eric Holder starts off with a bang. The seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want Holder to exercise his statutory duty and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) received a job offer from the White House to "induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)." Such an offer, the letter states, might violate federal law, and is at least worthy of an investigation beyond the one White House lawyers are said to have completed. Barring some grand new ...
Probe of Joe Sestak Job Allegation Sought by Republican Senators
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySeven senior Republican senators Wednesday told Attorney General Eric Holder they want a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that the White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job in the Obama administration in exchange for dropping his bid to unseat Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). "These allegations concern what could be a serious breach of the law," Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said as he called for an independent investigation of the matter. "A mere assurance from White House counsel is plainly not conclusive. It is time to get to the bottom of this." Sessions is the top Republican on ...
Joe Sestak Refuses Questions on Alleged White House Job Offer
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyInside the opulent Mansfield room on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) received a warm ovation Tuesday from the 58 Democratic senators who could be his new colleagues in November if he wins the Pennsylvania Senate race. But walking into the formal senators-only lunch, Sestak was dogged by reporters with questions about his past, specifically about allegations that Sestak made during his heated primary battle against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) that the White House had offered him a job in the administration to drop his bid to unseat Specter. Controversy ...
Joe Sestak Starts with a Small Lead Over Pat Toomey in Pa. Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyNow that he scored his victory over Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary, Rep. Joe Sestak has moved ahead of former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey for the first time this year, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 19. Sestak leads Toomey 46 percent to 42 percent with 3 percent preferring another choice and 9 percent undecided. Besides serving in Congress, Toomey had headed the conservative Club for Growth and his entry into the race on the Republican side was what prompted Specter to switch parties. The margin of error is 4.5 points. Toomey and Sestak each get ...
Rand Paul's Victory, Arlen Specter's Defeat, and the Quest for Authenticity
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyVoter rage is the reigning cliché emerging from Tea Party favorite Rand Paul's lopsided victory over establishment candidate Trey Grayson in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary. Coupled with the Pennsylvania primary defeat of Arlen Specter -- a very new Democrat but a very old senator -- the Kentucky results suggest that voters are getting ready to storm the castles of power, wielding hoes and pitchforks. Forgive me from deviating from press-pack orthodoxy, but after covering the Kentucky Senate race, I just do not see things in those monochromatic terms. Paul's campaign speeches avoid the ...
Joe Sestak: From Navy Admiral to Dragon Slayer
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), the Navy admiral-turned-congressman, defeated 30-year incumbent Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary Tuesday night, it was the second time in his short political career that he had knocked out a better-known incumbent. Four years earlier, Sestak bested Rep. Curt Weldon, beating the Republican incumbent by nearly 13 points to take the seat representing Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional district in Congress. In his three years on Capitol Hill, Sestak has offset his 31-year military career with an aggressively liberal voting record, supporting ...
Sestak Beats Specter in Pa. Senate Primary, Paul Wins in Kentucky
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRep. Joe Sestak ended an era Tuesday by defeating five-term Sen. Arlen Specter for the Democratic Senate nomination in Pennsylvania. Specter had the nation's top Democrats in his corner after switching to their party last year, and his final ad push featured President Barack Obama saying, "I love Arlen Specter." But Specter's Republican history and an anti-incumbent mood propelled Sestak to an improbable upset. It was a bipartisan night of rejection for the Washington establishment. Kentucky Republicans struck the first blow by choosing political newcomer Rand Paul as their Senate nominee. ...
Arlen Specter Loses Pa. Senate Race: No Escape for a Political Houdini
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyArlen Specter's Senate career began in the flush of the Reagan Revolution and will come to a close in the Tea Party era. Over those 30 years, he has been a Republican and a Democrat, a relentless interrogator of prospective judges and justices, a force for medical research, a champion earmarker for his state, and an accidental feminist indirectly responsible for an influx of women into the upper chamber. Specter, who lost Tuesday to Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary, is 80 years old, twice a survivor of cancer, and twice a survivor of such close political calls that ...
Specter-Sestak Dogfight Tops Senate 'Super Tuesday' Primaries
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyJoe Sestak saved the unkindest cut for last: He is reminding Pennsylvania voters in a wickedly effective TV ad that Sen. Arlen Specter used to be ... a Republican. And that's been enough to turn Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary into a cliffhanger. Obviously it was no secret that Specter had been a GOP senator for 29 of his 30 years in Washington. But the ad -- the sight of Specter in the embrace of George W. Bush and former Sen. Rick Santorum, Specter hovering beside Sarah Palin -- apparently was too much for many Democrats. Now polls show the race is even. The suspenseful Pennsylvania ...
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