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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (82461)	9/10/2010 11:42:22 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

Club on air for Toomey The Club for Growth's first television ad of the general election is for its former president, Pat Toomey, (Chinu's preferred candidate.) By SHIRA TOEPLITZ \| 8/27/10 4:26 PM EDT Updated: 8/27/10 6:05 PM EDT The Club for Growth is taking care of its own. The conservative anti-tax organization has launched its first television advertisement of the general election on behalf of the group’s former president, Republican Pat Toomey, in the Pennsylvania Senate race. Public polls show Toomey leading Democratic nominee Rep. Joe Sestak, and the former GOP congressman reported more than twice as much cash as his opponent with $4.6 million. In addition to having the upper hand in the money chase, Toomey has benefited from several outside groups that have spent heavily on his behalf in Pennsylvania. The club joins the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads GPS, which have also bought ad time in the state for Toomey. And just like those groups, the club’s first 30-second salvo is a negative spot against Sestak. “It’s very liberal to stick taxpayers with that $300 billion mortgage bailout. It’s very liberal to vote for a massive energy tax that could kill jobs here. And it’s very liberal to say that the $787 billion Obama-Pelosi stimulus plan should have spent even more,” says an announcer in the spot. “That’s Joe Sestak’s record: very liberal. We can’t afford Joe Sestak’s liberal schemes in the Senate.” A Club for Growth spokesman declined to give any more details on the size of the ad buy but said the spot would appear on cable and broadcast stations in the state. Sestak isn’t completely on his own: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is already up on the air on his behalf in their first general election of the cycle for the entire country. The DSCC’s ad is also negative and paints Toomey as a Wall Street banker who supported fiscal policies that destroyed the economy. Toomey’s ties with the Club for Growth run deep: He took the helm of the organization several months after he narrowly lost to Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter — a nemesis of the club — in the 2004 Republican primary. Toomey left the cash-flush organization in early 2009 to run for governor of the Keystone State but switched to the Senate race after polls showed he could defeat Specter in the GOP primary. Specter switched parties to run as a Democrat in late April 2009 but lost to Sestak in the Democratic primary earlier this year. politico.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (82461)	9/11/2010 12:13:10 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I know where Toomey is coming from and this prepares me to take him on. With folks like Sestak, you never know since he goes with where the wind blows. When will Sestak stand for something. Isn't he proud of all his votes in Congress? Why is he running from it? When he cannot stand up for himself, how does he expect the Democrats to stand up for him during the elections? We need a Obama who continues to stand firm on his promise about what he will do when tax breaks expire. He told us what he would do and it looks like he is going to keep his word. Not so with Sestak.