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By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyWashington is abuzz today on the news that the White House dangled a job offer in front of another Democratic Congressional candidate to convince them to drop out of a primary race. Last night, former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff issued a statement revealing that last fall, after he launched his campaign for the Senate, President Obama's deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina, called him to say that the White House would be supporting incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet. Furthermore, Messina volunteered "three positions that might be available" to Romanoff were he to ...
Sestak: 'Nothing Wrong Was Done'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOn Friday afternoon, Rep. Joe Sestak met reporters and claimed that neither he, President Obama, nor former President Bill Clinton had acted improperly when they discussed a deal that would have given Sestak a job in the Obama administration in exchange for dropping his bid to unseat longtime Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. As Politics Daily's Patricia Murphy reported earlier today, White House counsel Bob Bauer revealed in a memo that Bill Clinton had approached Sestak with the job offer. Sestak did not accept the offer, and went on to defeat Specter in the Democratic primary. "I ...
Sestak Says He'll Run Against Specter in Senate Primary
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIt's official: Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is going to have competition in his first Democratic primary. ...
PA Senate Update
By Dave - Politics DailyCourtesy of Cilizza at the washingtonpost.com, three good paragraphs. First, in response to the polling reported by DK yesterday."This is a statement of the obvious fact that Pat Toomey is not yet well known by statewide general-election voters," Toomey communications director Nachama Soloveichik said about the Quinnipiac numbers. "Where he is well known, by general-election voters in the swing 15th District and by statewide Republicans, he is overwhelmingly popular."I think that's the right take on it, but unfortunately it's going to be hard selling that to keep another big name from coming ...
Democrats: Specter's Biggest Foes?
By Tony Romm - Politics DailyLast week's top politics story sounded a lot like a perverted game of Clue -- Arlen Specter (?-Pa), in the Senate, playing the defection card, killing what little cohesion the Republican Party still coveted. Add to that stinging defeat the retirement of Justice David Souter, and it was easy to understand why the GOP was so worried. ...
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