Pat Toomey

An eye-opening arrival in the inbox:
U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey called President Obama’s speech today to school children in Arlington, Virginia “an inspiring and moving speech for students across America.”

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This Rasmussen Reports poll on the Pennsylvania Senate primary is dropping some jaws today:
In thinking about the 2010 Election for the United States Senate, suppose you had a choice between Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Arlen Specter. If the election were held today would you vote for Republican Pat Toomey or Democrat Arlen Specter?
48% [...]

Greg Giroux reports that the senior senator from Pennsylvania has given back $224,000 to donors who are angry about his party switch.
One prominent Republican who requested and received a contribution refund was Rob Gleason, the chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, which has even set up a Web site to help Republican donors request refunds.
Other [...]

Several months after he became the leading Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has won the endorsement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in a statement:
Congressman Pat Toomey’s life experience and public service make him uniquely qualified to serve Pennsylvanians in the U.S. Senate. [...]

Pat Toomey, the former Club for Growth president and leading Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2010 Senate race, has announced a $1 million haul in the “first 60 days” of his campaign and a finger-in-the-eye hiring coup:
Toomey also is pleased to announce the hiring of Arlen Specter’s former long-time Finance Director, Louisa Boyd, to fill its [...]

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is in, no matter what that Obama guy has to say.
The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent reports that Sestak told him he wants to challenge newly minted Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 party primary, even if the White House begs him to stay out of the race.
He’ll have his [...]

Following the report that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) intends to wage a primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), here’s the statement from Pat Toomey, the conservative former Club for Growth president who pushed Specter from the Republican Party to begin with.
While Joe Sestak and I disagree on a host of issues, I commend him [...]

When Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) switched parties, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told me that it could have been worse; Specter was still blocking the Senate from a vote on the Employee Free Choice Act. Today Specter is hinting that he might support a compromise, and the Toomey campaign is firing back through [...]

Florida’s Republican Senate primary has quickly become a contest between the party’s base and its national leadership.