LEFTOFVERS: Slow news week edition (Updated)

Well, things sure did slow down last week. After two months of non-stop action—candidates getting into races, candidates switching races, fundraising numbers flying—one of the political Gods seemed to have hit the breaks last week.

Nevertheless, here’s a few things you might have missed.

In Senate race news, Joe Sestak is still on the attack. This time, he’s telling our good friends at Politics as Usual podcast that Arlen Specter just can’t win a general election.

“Look at his fall in the polls,” Sestak said. “Now he is a general electorate failure for the Democrats. … We should welcome someone from the GOP into our party, but we should not fall on our sword for that individual. But that’s what the establishment has us doing.

While dishing out his share of attacks, Specter, for his part, has seemed more interested in continuing to shore up support from the party’s liberal base. So last week he said his new party doesn’t need Maine Republican Olympia Snowe to pass health care in the Senate.

Friend-of-the-site Josh Drobynk says it’s time for Sestak to start defining himself—before Specter does it for him.

In gubernatorial race news, Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Hoeffel’s new local ethics policy had its day in court. Local Republicans are challenging it, and it’s unclear when a ruling will come.

And Corey O’Brien’s fellow Lackawanna County Commissioner Mike Washo is staying out of O’Brien’s primary challenge to Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-11).

Well, that’s it for now, political junkies. With focus turning to the coming local and judicial elections, things might be a little slow on the 2010 front for a couple more weeks. But you know we’ll always keep you up to date here at pa2010.com.

UPDATE: Oh, and Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta confirms what everyone already knows—he’s still considering a third run against Kanjorski.