Sen. Specter talks about Anita Hill

full story

November 14, 2010 at 12:32 pm | Comments (6)

Months after defeat, Specter stumping for Sestak

Almost five months after he was dispatched in the May primary, Senator Arlen Specter will be campaigning in earnest for the man who sent him packing.

Specter will be joining Senators Bob Casey and Chuck Schumer and a reception for Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak Monday in the Philadelphia. It will mark one of the only times since their bitter primary that Specter has stumped for Sestak—Specter brought him to a lunch of Senate Democrats…

October 7, 2010 at 10:00 am | Comments (66)

LEFTOVERS: Specter and Sestak, Brown for Toomey, Club for Rothfus

As everyone knows, pA pool reporter caught up with Specter at Philadelphia International Airport, where the lame-duck senator was meeting Obama. The reporter asked how he thinks Sestak is doing, a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42473.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.politico.com']);return…

September 21, 2010 at 5:00 pm | Comments (8)

Specter peeved by Corbett ad

For the first time since he lost the May primary, Senator Arlen Specter is injecting himself directly into Pennsylvania electoral politics—but he’s not talking about the Senate race to succeed him.

Specter lashed out at Attorney General Tom Corbett Wednesday, responding to

September 16, 2010 at 9:43 am | Comments (8)

Specter’s quote revived… in an anti-Crist ad

As if Arlen Specter’s infamous “enable me to be reelected” quote didn’t do enough damage to himself—it’s now being used to go after Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.

The Republican-turned-independent who’s running for Senate is under fire in a new Chamber of Commerce ad, which looks to paint him as just one of a series of flip-floppers. In addition to John Kerry’s famous I-Was-For-It-Bef0re-I-Was-Against-It line, Specter makes an appearance. His quote was part of Joe Sestak’s…

September 15, 2010 at 9:29 am | Comments (2)

Specter says Toomey vs. Sestak will be a ‘dogfight’

The man who lost his Senate seat in a primary says the race to succeed him will be a brutal one.

Senator Arlen Specter this week weighed in on the contest between Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey, in some of his first public comments about the race since his loss to Sestak in the May primary.

“It’s going to be a dogfight,” Specter

September 9, 2010 at 8:11 am | Comments (7)

Arlen Specter vs. Sean Hannity

It’s been a while since we mentioned Arlen Specter here. No longer on the ballot after losing the Democratic primary, the lame-duck senator is, alas, not exactly news fodder for us at pa2010.com Central.

But the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat had an interesting interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News this week.

Things got heated at times during the 21-minute interview. So we thought we’d flag it for you.

See the video below.

…

August 4, 2010 at 10:03 am | Comments (3)

The Sestak-as-crazy-campaigner meme returns

Less than a month after he knocked off the state’s greatest political heavyweight, it looks like Democrat Joe Sestak is once again being scrutinized for the fact that he runs with an unorthodox political organization.

During the run-up to the primary, we here at pa2010.com did as much as anyone to advance this storyline, full story

June 15, 2010 at 11:15 am | Comments (30)

Sestak still hitting party leaders

Democrat Joe Sestak’s victory in the Senate primary last month doesn’t mean he’s done criticizing his party’s establishment for backing Arlen Specter instead.

Sestak, in an interview on PBS, said it was “wrong” for President Obama and others to back Specter.

“There’s no more kings, there’s no more king makers in America,” Sestak said the “Travis Smiley” show. “And if the Democratic Party should stand for anything when they are trying to get me out…

June 8, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Comments (36)

Lame-duck Specter can still make a difference

When Arlen Specter lost the Democratic primary last week, he joined the pSpecter made a lot of Democratic turns in the last year, promising to be a leader on a whole set of issues still on the president’s agenda for 2010. Many people are wondering if Specter will still deliver. For my part,…

May 27, 2010 at 2:39 pm | Comments (16)