In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee "urge the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak's claim that a White House official offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter."
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Rep. Joe Sestak continues his stretch run in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate primary and now trails incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter by a too-close-to-call 44 - 42 percent among likely Democratic primary voters,
Sen.
Arlen Specter makes a 2010 campaign ad eerily similar to one from 2004.
This switching parties stuff can be awkward, but Arlen Specter isn't doing himself any favors with the new TV ad that he has running in Pennsylvania about how much President Obama loves him.
The new ad almost exactly mirrors a TV ad that Specter ran in his 2004 campaign about how much President Bush loved him.
Source:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/05/specter_bush_obama_hearts_me.php
During his appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Sen.
Arlen Specter (D-PA) appeared to give out some inside dirt from his days as a Republican -- alleging that the GOP plotted early to stop any bipartisan cooperation with President Obama, and to instead look towards the 2012 election.
