Polls: Sestak’s Not Looking So Hot
This morning, Deniel Denvir asks in his PW column, “Just How Extreme is Pat Toomey?” And while he gets to the heart of the matter, detailing Toomey’s and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s shenanigans, recent polling may answer the original question: Not extreme enough, apparently. In spite of Toomey’s membership in the Club for Growth and his wacky...
Continue ReadingWatch Sestak’s New Ad
We’ve got to hand it to Congressman Joe Sestak. His “I don’t give a shit about this ad; I spent no money on it and that guy’s not even a fuckin’ voice actor; he’s, like, my brother or some shit” approach to commercials is always a hit. His latest, against Pat Toomey, plastered TV screens yesterday, and, like the “re-elected” commercial against...
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Sestak In West Philly; Democrats Down In PA
Just yesterday, Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak toured West Philly to play “Mad Libs: Small Business Edition.” “Philadelphia’s at its lowest employment in modern history and it’s because of small businesses,” he told business owners and, really, anyone willing to listen at the 52nd Street Business Corridor. “We have less small businesses...
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Mayor Bloomberg Calls For More Immigrants, Supports Pa. Senate Candidate Joe Sestak
Congressman Joe Sestak speaks to a North Philadelphia crowd next to NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. (photo: Matt Petrillo) While Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is on vacation for another week (Come back…we misses you!), New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg stopped by Progress Plaza in North Philadelphia today to endorse Joe Sestak for Pa. Senate (remember when...
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As Polls Shift Between Toomey And Sestak, Candidates Appeal To ‘Moderates’
Last we checked, Pat Toomey was trying to turn this senate campaign into a Conservative vs. Liberal thing. Well, sounds like that’s over as both candidates are now going for the moderate vote. Should’a seen that one coming. This week, Toomey hung out with someone his Club For Growth once dubbed “Comrade of the Month.” It was Susan Collins of Maine (the...
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Campaign Updates: Guv and Sen
Governor: Tom Corbett is so awkward. Perhaps you’ll remember a couple weeks back when he claimed the unemployed “just sit there”? “I’ve literally had construction companies tell me, ‘I can’t get people to come back to work until — they say, ‘We’ll come back when unemployment runs out,’” he mocked. But he...
Continue ReadingLawmakers: Some Stuff Is Going Down (Rendell, Nutt, Sestak, Toomey)
Let’s start at the top. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Philadelphia Magazine profile in which it’s at least insinuated Rendell had an affair with Dr. Kirstin Snow, director of Commonwealth Media Services. Well, he’s got some choice words about the article and the rumors, which have been circulating around him for some time. “No comment,” he said, via...
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Sestak Now Running for King of California; Toomey Says That’s Extreme
Remember Joe Sestak? The guy who won some election over the state’s oldest grandfather? Well, he spoke in California yesterday, for some reason, probably to let his opponents refer to him as a San Francisco “liberal.” Sestak spoke at the Commonwealth Club of California about broad, strange proposals for government, which the Inky called “reason over ideology.” Whatever,...
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Pat Toomey Has an Ad
We’re sort of bored with the blunt personal attacks Joe Sestak and Arlen Specter fastballed at each other over the last few months. We need something new. Something…icy. Say, uber-passive aggression with a touch of “My opponent isn’t bad person, just a terrible person.” Enter Pat Toomey’s first ad. Is there anything better than calling your opponent...
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