Toomey Calls On Sestak To Disclose Job Offer Details
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak continues to play coy with the details of what he claims was an attempt by the White House to lure him out of the Democratic primary election against U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter with a job offer. Sestak repeated that claim on Meet The Press yesterday. And Republicans again seized on the story to attack the President Obama's administration, which too is being coy on the subject.
Toomey Calls On Sestak To Disclose Job Offer Details
Chris Brennan
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak continues to play coy with the details of what he claims was an attempt by the White House to lure him out of the Democratic primary election against U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter with a job offer. Sestak repeated that claim on Meet The Press yesterday. And Republicans again seized on the story to attack the President Obama's administration, which too is being coy on the subject.
The one person who hasn't weighed in so far was former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey, Sestak's Republican opponent in the Nov. 2 general election. Now Toomey has released a statement saying Sestak should "tell the public everything he knows" about the job offer.
"To do otherwise will only continue to raise questions and continue to be a needless distraction in this campaign," Toomey said. "Joe and I disagree on many important issues, from health care, to bailouts, to the unprecedented debt being racked up in Washington. That’s what our campaign should be about, rather than these other matters. Joe can clear that all away by simply disclosing all the facts that he knows, and I urge him to do that."
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Sestak and Obama's silence on this matter is deafening!— downthemiddle
Joe has to get Nancy's OK to "spill the beans". Washington politics as usual...no "change" there.— dogman5- HOPE CHANGE.— Ramon
- Joe....how about releasing those military records while your at it?— tdoc
- What does it matter? This isn't anyhting unusual...administrations always try to head off competition for their preferred candidates. The Obama administration does it; the Bush administration did it; the Clinton administration did it. If Toomey really wanted the campaign to be about those substantive issues, he'd focus on those. The campaign will be about what the candidates make it about; Toomey's inference that he has no control over the topics debated in the campaign is disingenuous at best.— mbphilly
- why does this matter? the primary is over. this is just pat deflecting focus from his years of helping wall street and bush. pa doesn't need a former trader senator that will continue to repeal laws that were designed to prevent the last 3 years.— flavious27
Comment removed.- Toomey's already got Sestak behind the 8 Ball and the campaign just started. Now Sestak has no choice but to disclose what happened instead of playing coy.— Phillies2008WSChamps
- Larry, so anytime anyone makes a reasonable request of the current administration, those in power are allowed to point to an irrelevant decade-old mistake by the other party? In that case, before the Republicans need to talk about WMDs, why was Clinton lying about being a chubby chaser?— Echo
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- Someone needs to land in jail for bribery, or if Obummer made the offer personally he needs to be impeached. This is more then just the typical "backroom deal", it is a flat out crime.— Taxpaying Voter
- toomey is a stooge for the corporations. Deregulation was his modus, and look where it got us with the subprime mess. Wake up people! Washington sucks, but this guy is not the answer, just a guy trying to take advantage of your anger for the wealth of corporations. Like Nancy Reagan said, Just say No!— harriet21
- Why won't he come clean if it is so innocent?— msvndy
- Toomey has nothing to run on so he is desperate to create some kind of issue about Sestak ... pass the popcorn!!!— Wiki_Leaker
- What a waste of time. Job offers are private. Toomey should worry about how he plans to counter The Admiral's lengthy leadership service. Toomey's got nothing even close.— phillydrj
- toomey is playing the republican game plan...nothing new here...say one thing do another...very specter like— Suburban Dem
- @harriet21: Once again, learn the facts. The banking deregulation that allowed the subprime mess as we know it was pushed by Clinton. The Repubs didn't do that one. Anyway, Toomey has a point here. If people want this to go away, then tell us who said what, and we can figure out who's telling the truth and who (if anyone) broke the law.— buttermilk67
- Obama should be impeached over this. This is not a jpob offer, it's a bribe with US Sailors lives being used to buy political favors.— tr88
- I don't think he's being "coy"...I think the real reason he won't answer is he's lying. He has nothing to gain by not disclosing the details of this "job offer" so why isn't he? The best reason imo is it's all bs.— DixieMay
- Sestak has got to come clean or it will cost him votes and the election.— Boru
- an article i read earlier said that toomey wasn't going to dwell on this issue. was he lying? is he willing to divulge all the offers that were proffered to him?— stangler
- Sestak for President! That is what is next.........— vc bear
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