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Toomey says Sestak being ‘hypersensitive’
Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey on Thursday lambasted Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) for asking local TV stations to remove an ad by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, calling his Democratic opponent’s reaction “hypersensitive.”
Toomey’s comments came during a quickly-arranged afternoon conference call, after two Pittsburgh stations said they would pull the ad tying Sestak to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. After Sestak’s protest, the two stations took issue with the ad’s characterization of the recently-enacted health care law as a “government takeover,” as well as the assertion that Sestak voted with Pelosi 100 percent of the time. Though accurate through much of the current Congress, Sestak has recently voted against Pelosi’s position on campaign finance reform.
“This is about Joe Sestak denying that he’s in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi, which is shocking to me,” Toomey told reporters. “The only thing that would be misleading and deceptive would be to suggest there’s any substantive difference between he and Nancy Pelosi. He supports the entire agenda.”
Toomey said his campaign would not lobby to have the ads restored, leaving that decision to the Chamber of Commerce.
“It’s very interesting and illustrative of the lengths that Joe Sestak will go to mislead Pennsylvania voters,” Toomey said.
Even before Toomey’s conference call, Sestak’s campaign had struck back.
“Congressman Toomey’s frantic efforts to defend these lies are a desperate attempt to distract voters from his own record on the issues,” Sestak spokesman Jonathon Dworkin said in a statement. “The Toomey record is clear—defend Wall Street at the expense of working families, advocate for the privatization of social security and raise taxes on the middle class. People are tired of Wall Street/Washington insiders distorting the truth. Joe believes it’s time for accountable leadership.”
July 15, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Tags: Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey
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Dem Guy
Jul 15th, 2010
Republican to English Translation:
The Sestak campaign is being, like, so gay.
sick of it all
Jul 15th, 2010
if the ad is not true, it’s not true-if the tv station does not want to run false ads, it is its right…Toomey-how you creating jobs? providing healthcare to the uninsured?
John
Jul 15th, 2010
Nice to see the media acting like good little liberals and bowing to the whims of their Democrat overlords.
David Diano
Jul 15th, 2010
It’s not so much that Joe’s “thin-skinned”, its that Sestak is all veneer and no thicker than the uniform he drapes himself in, the way the Republicans wrap themselves in the flag.
Dem Guy
Jul 15th, 2010
John –
Yes, Pittsburgh. That’s bastion of liberal media outlets, like the Tribune-Review.
Anonymous
Jul 16th, 2010
“Bowing to the whims of their Democrat overlords.”
By which you mean deciding to not print blatantly false claims on their stations?
bill healy
Jul 16th, 2010
You wold think Toomey wold support not running blatently false ads like these. That way when those terrible Liberals start running ads showing him as a wall street tool and claiming his actions in the Congress contributed to our present economic meltdown he can compl…Oh wait those claims are true,oh well back to the untrue smear jobs.
WESTPADEM6
Jul 17th, 2010
The middle east ad to me is waay over the top. This is already getting very nasty. I thought most of the fireworks would have been w specter, but it looks like we are going to see our share!!!
David Diano
Jul 17th, 2010
The Israel ad is an extension of criticisms leveled at Sestak in the editorial pages of the local Jewish Exponent. Sure, Toomey took them a step further, but there is already a baseline of complaint about Joe’s commitment to Israel. A lot of people never forgave Joe for the CAIR event.
I think the ad is unfair in it’s characterization of CAIR.
GANIA TAIL
Jul 18th, 2010
The ads are back up.
PA10nomoreLiberals
Jul 19th, 2010
PA is finally waking up! No more Liberals pushing their agenda and taking away our Freedoms. 2010 = vote out the sellouts! Vote Republican!
David Diano
Jul 19th, 2010
Hate to clue you in…but the Republicans are the sellouts: big oil, big coal, big mining, big polluters, big tobacco…
always voting against the little guy.