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Dems keep pounding Toomey on jobs bill

Democrats think Pat Toomey doesn’t care about jobs.

And they really, really, really want you to know.

The state Democratic Party has sent so many e-mails and press releases about Toomey over the last week or so that we’re starting to lose track of them all. It started with the party’s insistence that Toomey, the GOP Senate hopeful, take a stance on the jobs bill that recently passed the Senate. When Toomey said he’d oppose it, Democrats embarked a sort of “death by a thousand e-mails” mission.

“Pat Toomey objects to this bipartisan legislation, not for any principled opposition to it, but because he can’t wait to join other obstructionists like Jim Bunning in opposing every piece of legislation, no matter how popular and necessary, simply because the president supports it,” state party spokesman Patrick McKenna said Wednesday in one of the party’s many missives on the subject. “This is an excellent illustration of just how out of touch Toomey is with the day-to-day struggles of Main Street Pennsylvanians.”

On Thursday, with Toomey set address Montgomery County Republicans, the party trotted out one of its local state lawmakers to add his voice to the mix.

“At a time when hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians are unemployed—including many right here in Montgomery County—Pat Toomey remains disastrously out of touch with the concerns of Pennsylvania families,” state Representative Josh Shapiro (D-Montgeromy) said. “We need a Senator who looks to create more jobs in Pennsylvania than just one for himself.”

The attacks have also come from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And from Harrisburg to Washington, no one’s showing signs of letting up on the issue.

Toomey has said the bill won’t do much to crate new jobs.

“The so-called Hire Act contains a net tax increase, does not eliminate earmarks, and employs badly designed tax incentives that will do little to
create new jobs,” a Toomey spokeswoman said last week. “Pat would have opposed this bill and replaced it with one that actually creates jobs. If Senator Specter and his new Democratic cronies are truly interested in job creation, they should stop supporting the massive new taxes on businesses contained in the health care and cap-and-trade bills.”

March 19, 2010 at 9:30 am

--Dan Hirschhorn

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