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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (82463)	9/11/2010 12:19:56 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Not only will you not be able to "take on" Toomey, you can't even take on people DINOs like Ben Nelson. S Re Sestak, I think you have no idea what you are talking about.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (82463)	9/11/2010 12:35:17 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Sestak is a good one. We need him: Sestak and Toomey: Night and Day on Climate and Energy in Pennsylvania Senate Race WASHINGTON—Some election forecasters continue to peg the Pennsylvania Senate contest as a “toss-up,” while others have shifted it over to the “leans Republican” column. Either way, conservationists intent on advancing climate and energy legislation in a reshaped Congress next year covet the seat Republican-cum-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter will be vacating after five terms, so they are making their voices heard. Both the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters have endorsed the Democratic contender Rep. Joe Sestak, who is in his second term representing the Philadelphia area’s 7th District. The three star admiral and Navy veteran knocked an on-the-ropes, party-switching Specter off his longtime perch in the May 18 primary. But polls show Sestak is looking vulnerable against his Republican opponent as the Keystone State inches toward Nov. 2 election. Both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to raise campaign dollars for Sestak in separate appearances within the next few weeks, according to CNN. Recently, the League of Conservation voters made Sestak’s Republican opponent Pat Toomey, who challenged Specter six years ago, the target of an online campaign that includes a video and advertising. The advocacy group also added Toomey to its infamous trademark “Dirty Dozen” list for 2010. Tony Massaro, the league’s senior vice president for political affairs spelled out exactly why: “Be it as a member of Congress or president of the Club for Growth, Pat Toomey has made clear that he walks in lockstep with Big Oil and other corporate polluters while opposing new energy policies that would set America on the path to a clean energy future. From drilling for oil in the Great Lakes to opposing legislation that creates clean energy jobs, his extreme views on energy policy put him far outside the mainstream and easily earn him a spot on the Dirty Dozen.” Toomey’s press secretary didn’t respond to a SolveClimate News request for a comment about the listing. The energy section of the candidate’s Web site is quite spare. In two short paragraphs Toomey notes that politicians “lack the desire and the political will to institute a forward-thinking energy policy that will lower the costs and make America energy independent.” He also explains that while in the House, where he represented the 15th District in the Allentown region north of Philadelphia for three terms after first being elected in 1998, he voted to allow drilling in “a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.” The section also features a link to a Nov. 6, 2009 opinion piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where Toomey blasts Sestak for voting in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. He criticizes a cap and trade system for carbon as a massive job killer for the fourth-largest coal producing state. Toomey then calls for “commonsense policies that protect our environment” and lists renewable energy, conservation, natural gas, nuclear energy and cleaner coal technology as pieces of the solution. Sestak Not Backpedaling Sestak has not backpedaled on his support for the cap and trade bill cosponsored by fellow Democrats Reps. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Henry Waxman of California. His campaign Web site delves into a long list of environmental issues and details about Sestak’s legislative wish list. “We need to put aside political ideology and find practical solutions to reduce energy costs and spur investment in clean energy,” Sestak said in a news release, adding that he supports a renewable electricity standard of 25 percent. “This will create green jobs and reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.” continued... solveclimate.com