It shows that Specter is a class act.

I’m sure Lentz’s looking forward to Sestak bringing him to a Congressional Dems luncheon.

Im sure sure sestak is fundraising alot of money for Lentz and other down ticket candidates too?

BTW, update on the “Job Offer”..

http://law.justia.com/us/codes/title10/10usc5013.html

(2) A person may not be appointed as Secretary of the Navy within five years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a
regular component of an armed force.

So, Sestak retired at the end of 2005, and couldn’t even take such a job until the end of this year. Also, Obama had just appointed a Navy Secretary in the spring of 2009 (as well as the Under Secretary).

So, this pretty much debunks Sestak being offered the job of Secretary of the Navy in June 2009 (unless the job was to start after Sestak’s 2nd term in Jan 2011).

Oh, BTW, Secretary of Defense has a 7 year moratorium after relief of active duty.

Dave,

Thanks for that info. I hope we can squash Issa before this turns into a big mess.

TB

TB-
I’m just debunking the claim that the offer was an immediate posting for Secretary of the Navy.
The longer this drags on, the more it looks like a bigger cover-up, to justify the extra stalling and stonewalling.

Dick Durbin seems to have slipped a tidbit that Rahm Emanuel was part of this. Ooops!

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/when-the-future-chief-of-staff/57242/

Today, the wick burned out. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a friend of the President and his Chicago entourage, said that Rep. Joe Sestak, the new Democratic Senate nominee from Pennsylvania, should provide a fuller accounting of his conversation with Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff, ahead of the primary race. “At some point I thing Congressman Sestak needs to make it clear what happened,” he told CNN.

Dave -

Sestak NEVER said he was offered Secretary of the Navy. There are THOUSANDS of appointed positions. Stop pretending like you know anything. Specter lost, get over it. I honestly dont know how much more a complete loser you could be.

As for Sestak taking Lentz to the House Ds lunch, unlikely. I cant imagine party leadership wants every D challenger coming through.

Haveford Dem-

Sestak never denied that he was not offered Sec. of the Navy, particularly when it was mentioned at face to him multiple times.

http://earlyreturns.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=936:law-bars-sestak-from-navy-job&catid=53:post-gazette-staff&Itemid=34

Good military blog on sestak being full of crap. Someone like him would NEVER be appointed Secretary of the Navy anyways. Last time they sent him to the rear deck.

Squash what? Sestak is the one saying over and over again he was offered a job. You can’t blame this on some crazy conspiracy theory talk.

Either Sestak lied or the White House was doing something unethical and possibly illegal.

Or…. Sestack believes what he heard ( and translated) and is mistaken- as is frequently the case in people speaking to or over each other (as even frequently evidenced in the discussions on this bog).
Not every mistaken impression is nefarious or a crime. The Republicans would prefer to paralyze the country during two wars, a depression and the BP nightmare than offering ideas and joint patriotic constructive action.
This is all a huge partisan poop storm over nothing.

HaverfordDemocrat-

I never said that Sestak claimed he was offered that position.
The media keeps asking Sestak that question. He then declines to confirm or deny. But he could put that rumor to rest immediately by stating that he’s currently ineligible for the position, and wouldn’t even be eligible until the end of 2010.

Posting anonymously like you do to attack me, pretty much maximizes your “complete loser” status.

As for asking Lentz to lunch, that would require class.

Anthracite-
Sestak has repeated his claim multiple times and clearly stated there is no question he was offered a job. He’s even backed out of the possibility that he could have misunderstood it.

Now we are left with:
1) Sestak’s lying about the job offer
2) Sestak’s covering up rather than being transparent. (The issue Joe is running on is bring transparency.)
3) Sestak is not a credible witness, if he can be that sure about something so straight forward, and still get it 100% wrong. Not a good trait for a would-be Senator in a body with verbal negotiations.

Lets have all of that TRANSPARENCY that the current regime has been talking about. Keep the heat on ‘em Daryl Issa!!!!!

What did Obama Know about the Job Offer to Joe Sestak to get Him out of the Race against Arlen Specter ??????????????????????????????

Frankly, Arlen Specter got over his defeat much quicker and more graciously than some of the commenters here. Is it really necessary to aid and abet Pat Toomey by seeking every opportunity to take a shot at Sestak?

Our congressional candidate was approached by the Sestak team for a rally a couple of days ago. So much for the charges from DD that Sestak doesn’t help down ticket candidates. In my heavily Republican area, you need to believe me that Sestak is helping our candidate WAAAAAAAAY more than our candidate could help Sestak.

This is a classy thing for Sestak to do. When Casey was running he wouldn’t appear with our congressional candidate, so it is night and day with Sestak. Glad he won.

Rplinpa –

What candidate is that, do tell? …And where’s the rally?

Lee-
Sestak started this controversy in February when the made the claim, and failed to back-peddle it as a misunderstanding. Instead, he decided to double-down on this bad bet.

Some of us felt Joe was irresponsibly weakening the White House. We felt that this would be an issue during the campaign if Sestak won (and evaporate if Sestak lost). There were also two potential ulterior motives:
1) Sestak making himself seem viable enough of a threat that he was offered a (unnamed) high-level position.
2) Sestak was firing a blackmail-like warning shot at the White House that if he couldn’t win, he’d could punish them.

rplinpa-
1) who is your congressional candidate?
2) Was Joe getting your candidate to set up the rally, for Joe to attend, or was Joe setting up a rally and inviting the congressional candidate?
3) Sestak didn’t much effort for down-ticket candidates in his own 7th district in 2006, 2007, 2008 or 2009.
We picked up only 1 legislative seat (Lentz) in 2006, and he won without getting help from Sestak.
In 2008, Sestak raised and extra $3 million he didn’t need or spend (it was left over after election). Sestak won by 20-points, without any TV or radio ads. Why didn’t Sestak use all the obviously extra resources to get even one additional St. Legislator elected in his district?

No coattails.

Its amazing how Fox news keeps pushing the question IF there was a job offer…. Trying to imply that Sestak made it up. Who in the world would be so naive to think that Sestak would be lying? Deals get cut everyday on races. In fact, some candidates purposely enter races- just as some people enter “nuisance” awsuits- just t Now, it might have been naive for Sestak to say that he was offered a job. But geesh it’s the whitehouse that “offered the bribe” and it pus Sestak in a good position.

Pls disregard spelling errors above…using cell phone in train station!

I’m with Lee Levin – it’s time to get behind Sestak and against Toomey. The fact that Toomey is even a viable candidate is ridiculous to me, but that’s where we are, and unless we want Santorum 2.0 (bigger, badder, and more conservative than ever), then we need to get the message out and take charge.