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LEFTOVERS: Sestak on Clinton, Meehan gets plagiarized, Corbett’s birthday

After going against the bulk of the Democratic establishment in his Senate primary win, Joe Sestak says he’s looking forward to help from the top party leaders—including former President Bill Clinton. Sestak, who worked in the Clinton White House, said Friday on MSNBC that his old boss has already said he’d pitch in for Sestak’s campaign against Republican Pat Toomey. “Yes, he already said so,” Sestak said of Clinton. “As a matter of fact, they called us twice.” Sestak said said there were no hard feelings between him and party leaders, and that he’s more interested in having one Obama campaign for him than another. “I’d be honored to have the president come in any day,” he said. “Although I really want Michelle Obama to come in first—what a winner to have in Philadelphia.”

Speaking of the 7th Congressional District, which Sestak is vacating, Republican hopeful Pat Meehan briefly found himself a victim of plagiarism last week. Vaughn Ward, the failed Republican House candidate in Idaho who was stung earlier this year for plagiarizing a speech by Barack Obama, apparently also grabbed a bunch of lines from Meehan’s announcement speech last year. A local TV station reports that Ward’s announcement speech in January included 15 paragraphs that were almost identical to the announcement speech Meehan gave in September (video report embedded at bottom). “I’m flattered someone looked at the ideas we put forth,” Meehan told KTVB.

And pa2010.com Central would like to offer a belated happy birthday to Attorney General Tom Corbett. The GOP candidate for governor turned 61 on Friday. We hope he was able to get a couple minutes away from the campaign trail to celebrate.

June 20, 2010 at 4:03 pm

--Dan Hirschhorn

Tags: Joe Sestak, PA-7, Pat Meehan, Tom Corbett

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