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Toomey on a ‘united party’
NEW YORK—It’s the crux in intra-party politics that a primary is both good and bad—bad because it drains resources that could be used to fight the other guys, good because it draws attention to the candidates.
Right now, Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey, expected to cruise to a primary victory next May, isn’t getting an iota of the media attention either of his likely Democratic opponents are. But he insists this isn’t a disadvantage.
“I do think we’ve had a great opportunity to unite the party,” Toomey said here Saturday afternoon.
“I don’t take anything for granted,” he added. “I’m going to work very hard to make sure we win.”
He activist Peg Luksik, but Republicans at both the leadership and grassroots levels have almost universally lined up behind him as their best hope to recapture the seat they lost when Senator Arlen Specter switched parties earlier this year.
December 12, 2009 at 9:39 pm
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David Diano
Dec 13th, 2009
“A Brief Look at Sestak”: http://nepartisan.com/?p=383
I think the Toomey campaign is finally giving up on Sestak as their “Great White Hope”, and getting ready to focus back on Specter.
Terra Firma
Dec 14th, 2009
Sestak – Specter. Whatever – Bring it on!!
mike mentzer
Dec 17th, 2009
Shall we remind the supporters of Toomey about 1999 Resolution 10 in the House ? Brought on by BANKING INSIDER and Controversial Dervitives Trader, Pat Toomey..
On social issues Toomeys a dinosaur. Using Government to enforce religious dogma isn’t even Constitutional.. yet, Toomey wasted his and the Houses’ time on things Das Fuerer would have been proud of.. Flag Burning Ban, total abortion ban, etc.
I don’t believe in reformed serial killers, and Toomey has beem a extreme right wing Republican for a very long time. Voting in representation for the wealthiest 10% that are mostly foreigners is absolutely foolish. But that is todays Republican Party.
see my sight for toomey’s record..
Brent Wingard
Dec 17th, 2009
Agree or disagree on HR10 (later known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley), I don’t think it will hit Toomey too hard in the general as it passed the House initially 343-86, and the final conference version passed 362-57, including over 3/4 of Democrats. Final Senate passage was 90-8, and Arlen Specter voted for it twice, including a mostly party-line 54-44 vote on initial passage before provisions were added to bolster portions of the Community Reinvestment Act to bring more Democrats on board. In retrospect, we can argue whether the bill contributed to the current economic crisis, but at the time it enjoyed broad bipartisan support. Critics can frame it as part of an overall attitude of laissez-faire deregulation by Toomey, but if Specter honestly represents his own record, he has to admit that he also voted for it, even before the anti-redlining provisions were added (in case he tried to retroactively spin it that way). I’m not trying to make the case for or against Toomey on this one, just presenting the facts.