Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist tells me that Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch is not a total disaster because “the most important issue before Congress is EFCA, and his restatement of his commitment to oppose it is very important. It’s the one silver lining in this decision.”
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On a conference call with Steve Forbes, who supported Pat Toomey over Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) in the 2004 Republican primary, I asked whether Specter’s switched vote against the Employee Free Choice Act gave conservatives a reason to re-elect him over Toomey or another candidate.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer has the first negative TV ad in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race, with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) needling Pat Toomey — who hasn’t entered the race yet — over the economy.
The all-but-certain 2010 primary challenger for Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) was the toast of the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, an annual two-day annual conservative meeting in Harrisburg. John Gizzi has the money quote from Pat Toomey:
It’s time for a change … It’s very, very likely I will be a
The Quinnipiac poll, taken before Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) switched his EFCA vote, finds the venerable moderate trailing conservative challenger Pat Toomey. Only 27 percent of Republicans remember who Toomey is, but he leads Specter 41-27 in a Senate primary.
While a small group of conservative activists and journalists sat down for lunch at the University Club in downtown Washington, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform got a phone call from Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-Penn.) chief of staff, Scott Hoeflich. Specter—the moderate Republican who had once co-sponsored the Employee More…
It’s here — few people at the labor conference I’m at have seen it. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) comes out against every aspect of the bill.
On the merits, the issue which has emerged at the top of the list for me is the elimination of the secret ballot
Speaking at a labor issues conference in Washington, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform said that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) had just decided to vote against cloture on the Employee Free Choice Act. Scott Hoeflich, Specter’s chief of staff, called Norquist to give him a heads up before Specter More…
Yesterday, I reported that Pennsylvania conservatives were annoyed, but not all too worried, that Republican-turned-Constitution Party member-turned-Republican Peg Luksik was joining the race against Sen. Arlen Specter. Here’s another reason why Luksik fails to impress people — Jim Clymer, Luksik’s running mate in her Constitution Party bids, is an More…
One tidbit I left out of yesterday’s story about Arlen Specter was that Peg Luksik, a long-time pro-life activist and frequent candidate, was also considering running in the Republican primary. She just reiterated her intention to run.
Luksik says [Pat] Toomey told her in February that he wasn’t running
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