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Republicans push for answers on Sestak, Romanoff job offers
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jun 02, 2010 03:43pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Author | Michael Booth |
| News Date | Thursday, May 27, 2010 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Republicans trying hard to make Joe Sestak’s job-trading allegations stick are dragging Colorado Senate challenger Andrew Romanoff into the argument.
Much of their ammunition comes straight from a Denver Post article last September by Washington correspondent Michael Riley. The Post article cited top Democratic sources saying the Obama administration “suggested a place for Romanoff might be found” in the executive branch. The implication was that the job would be available if Romanoff dropped any challenge to appointed Sen. Michael Bennet for the Colorado Democratic primary.
Sestak is the Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman who beat longtime incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in the keystone state’s Senate primary. He went public with allegations the Obama administration offered him a job if he’d drop the run at Specter.
Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams wants the public to draw a direct connection between Sestak and Romanoff.
“It’s reprehensible to have an administration, especially the one that has set itself up as the paragon of ethical virtue, to run around trying to buy off candidates to get out of these competitive primaries,” said Wadhams, by cell phone from North Carolina where he is getting married this weekend. “Buying them off with taxpayer-funded jobs. It’s reprehensible, it shouldn’t happen, and it’s clear we now have two very clear examples of where the administration attempted to do that.” |
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