Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak gave a 15-minute presser on the Capitol steps, insisting that what happened was not a job offer.
Ben Stein says he’s dug himself an even deeper hole. “They offered him an unpaid job on a board?”
“Why did they have Clinton do it? The whole thing has about it a Huey Long or Democratic political machine thing about it.
“They should come clean. this does has a kind of shoot from the hip Rahm Emanuel look to it.”
And a peculiar odor. You believing Sestak’s explanation? Jack Cashill isn’t.
Me either.
Oh, and by the way…
Allegations that the White House offered Joe Sestak a job in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Senate race echo an earlier report of a job offer to candidate Andrew Romanoff in Colorado.
On Sept. 27, 2009, the Denver Post reported that the Obama administration offered Senate candidate Romanoff a position if he canceled plans to run for the Democratic nomination against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet.
The paper said the job offer, which specified particular jobs, reportedly was delivered by Jim Messina, Obama’s deputy chief of staff. One position the Post cited was a job at USAID, the foreign aid agency.
Messina contacted Romanoff soon after news leaked in August 2009 that Romanoff, former Colorado House speaker, would make a primary run against Bennet.
Romanoff turned down the offer and announced his candidacy. Obama then endorsed Bennet, who had been appointed in January 2009 to fill the seat vacated when Ken Salazar became secretary of the Interior.
This smells as fishy to me as the democratic presidential nominee. Is that how Hillary became Sec. of State and not the President? BETCHA! Fair elections, think not….
it is illegal to attempt to influence the outcome of an election by offering anyone anything. The law is broadly written to include every possible ‘inducement’.
The White House was very careful here. “Bribe”? the job had no pay, not a ‘thing of value’. “offer”? it was more like a conversation. WHITE HOUSE? Nah, it was Clinton, just fiddling around with some ideas.
They have attempted to create a story that solves all problems.
But Sestak already said this happened. And what he is saying now, his version of this Clinton concoction, is so insincere and uncomfortable that it made me blow Diet Coke out my nose. LOL. I thought Sestak was weak BEFORE, but THIS statement is a belly laugh.
Fact– SESTAK WAS AN ADMIRAL. There is only one job which could “induce” him to abandon a try for the United States Senate, and that job is Secretary of the Navy.
Fact– Sestak already said he was offered a ‘high ranking job’. A position on an advisory panel, unpaid, is quite literally NOTHING, certainly not a ‘high ranking job’. There would be no REASON for them to offer such a thing to him, as it would provide no inducement whatsoever to change his present course.
Fact– Sestak is in the uncomfortable position of attempting to defend his Navy reputation by telling the truth, but only so MUCH truth. If he tells it all, his political career is over, and retribution of a more horrible kind is entirely possible. Rahm isn’t called “deadfish” for nothing, and don’t forget the Clinton dead list.
But if he does NOT tell at least ‘this much truth’, he is lying and someone will demonstrate that in short order. He therefore walked the fence…. Someone offered me something to quit the primary, he says, but saying that much completely satisfies my personal responsibility to be forthright, he says.
But if it happened as he said it did, THAT IS A CRIME. Concealing a crime is A CRIME.
You don’t say “I saw a hit and run, got the license plate, but the driver is going to have to tell you he did it. Me telling you I saw it happen is really all I’m obligated to say.”
I think this far left creep is lying his butt off. Why won’t he release his military records. Sounds like the same thing we have been going through with Obummer.Sestak told The Inquirer that he would not release performance reviews from his time at the Pentagon, and also expressed some dismay at how the media has reported on Specter’s attacks against him. http://www.pa2010.com/2010/04/sestak-wont-release-records-as-vets-speak-out-in-new-ad/
I hope Toomey is looking at this man with a magnifying glass.