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Pennsylvania: Arlen Specter

August 14, 2009 - 04:36 pm
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NetRoots Update

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

In case you hadn't heard, there was somewhat of a phone ruckus at NetRoots today. TPM has the story:

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) just told a crowd of skeptical progressives that he's willing to take up and dispel the death panel rumor with perhaps its most respected proponent: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

Specter said he'd call Grassley from back stage and tell him "it's not a death squad."

I was there. It was sooo cool. Let me flesh out the details. Specter was being questioned about whether he thought that Grassley was wrong when he said what he said about the government "pulling the plug on grandma.

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August 7, 2009 - 06:07 am
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Pat Toomey on Abortion

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Don't know if you caught this one. Here's Pat Toomey, GOP candidate against Senator Arlen Specter, on Hardball (via Crooksandliars):Toomey: I think that Roe v Wade was wrongly defined, wrongly decided and I think states should be free to restrict abortion and I would support legislation in Pennsylvania that would ban abortion and I would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them if we were able to pass that law.

Matthews: Would you put people in jail for performing abortions?

Toomey: At some point doctors performing abortions, I think would be subject to that sort of penalty.

Toomey, in the same interview a few seconds earlier, says he's on the "center right." I wonder who he thinks is on the "far" right.

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August 5, 2009 - 02:01 am
NEWS FEED: Philly.com

John Baer: Here's how Sestak can overcome the odds against him

SO, FOR Joe Sestak it's into the meat grinder of a campaign against Arlen Specter. This is like seeing Sweeney Todd for a shave. Enter his shop, ya might get your throat cut.

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August 5, 2009 - 12:43 am
NEWS FEED: Pawatercooler.com

Specter’s Dilemma

By Michael Stubel

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter certainly expected backlash from multiple corners upon jumping ship and joining the Democratic Party this past spring. What he probably did not bargain for, however, was being placed in a position in which he would have to vehemently defend President Obama’s health care plan to his constituents. Already stripped of his [...]

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July 23, 2009 - 10:12 am
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TODAY: Rally for Clean Energy, Not Coal

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

Sorry for posting this so late, but if you happen to be downtown today:

Rally for Clean Energy, Not Coal
Thursday at 12 p.m.
6th Avenue & William Penn Place, Pittsburgh PA

From MoveOn:

Will Arlen Specter stand up for the Clean Air Act?

The House passed an energy bill which would roll back a key provision of the Clean Air Act that limits global-warming pollution from dirty coal plants.1

Now it's the Senate's turn to write an energy bill, and we've got to stop them from making the same mistake.

So MoveOn members are gathering in Pittsburgh on Thursday at 12 p.m. to call on Sen. Specter to save the Clean Air Act and switch America to a clean energy economy.

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July 8, 2009 - 05:38 am
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Public Option Now! Health Care Rallies in Pittsburgh

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

MoveOn.org is urging all to contact their US Senators to support a Public Option for health care.

There will be two rallies tomorrow; one targeting Sen. Bob Casey and the other Sen. Arlen Specter.

Public Option Now! Health Care Rally
Sen. Arlen Specter's District Office
Regional Enterprise Tower, 425 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1450
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Thursday, July 09th, 10:00 AM
RSVP here.

Public Option Now! Health Care Rally
Sen. Robert Casey's District Office
Regional Enterprise Tower, 425 Sixth Avenue, Suite 2490
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Thursday, July 09th, 12:00 PM
RSVP here.
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June 18, 2009 - 05:58 am
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Specter leads Sestak by 19 points

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

From pa2010:
Senator Arlen Specter continues to hold a significant lead over Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) in a likely primary matchup, but that edge could be closing slowly as Sestak gains more name recognition from his public crusade against Specter, according to a new pollIt's a Rasmussen poll of only 374 likely primary voters.

Last month, a Quinnipiac poll had Specter up by almost 30 points.
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June 8, 2009 - 06:42 am
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Keeping on Arlen's @ss

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

There are a few:

  • Labor

On Saturday, PA's newly Democratic Senator, Arlen Specter, was in town to address the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee but first he had to face Labor.

SEIU, PA AFL-CIO, the Allegheny County Labor Council, the Communication Workers of America, Local 13000 and others rallied for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) before the committee meeting and Specter spoke to the union members. There's video of his speech below courtesy of a Daily Kos diary.

Specter said that he is "'committed to finding an answer' on legislation making it easier to organize unions" and "If you want to become elected in this state, you have to come to labor, and I know that.

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May 18, 2009 - 06:32 am
NEWS FEED: Lehigh Valley Ramblings

Severson Running Prinzinger's Sleaze Campaign Against Dougherty

By Bernie O'Hare (BOHare5948@aol.com)

Over the weekend, I told you that judicial candidate Jim Narlesky, magisterial candidate Jackie Taschner and Bethlehem City Council candidate Joe Leeson are using campaign maven Tom "Scissorhands" Severson. You can now add Lehigh County Comm'r candidate Mark Prinzinger to this hall of shame. Late last week, he circulated a vicious mailer that likens Dougherty to Arlen Specter, who is not too popular among Republicans these days. It then goes on the recite "Fact" after "Fact" to show that Dr. Dougherty is some liberal lunatic like me. Prinzinger's mailer, a Scissorhands production, can be examined by clicking on the picture above.

There's one teensy problem with this neagative mailer.

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May 9, 2009 - 07:40 am
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Senator Specter's Cancer Cure Website

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Adam Green at the dailykos is reporting:
Arlen Specter's campaign has quietly changed his "Specter for the Cure" website after initially denying it was a scandal.
And he's got the screen shots to prove it.

For those not following the story, Eric Heyl had a column in yesterday's Tribune-Review that began with:
So desperately does Arlen Specter crave your cash that he is willing to be deplorably disingenuous to obtain it.

He apparently is willing to risk offending anyone who has suffered from cancer, autism, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or diabetes.

Those are the illnesses and conditions specifically mentioned in a new Web site the Pennsylvania Demopublican has launched, ostensibly to help vanquish various diseases.

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