From this PA7Watch story…After attacking Joe Sestak for taking campaign contributions from Sandy Berger and Mary McCarthy, the Weldon camp accepted a $1,000 contribution from former state Senate Majority Leader F. Joseph Loeper, a "tax felon turned lobbyist who did jail time for obstructing an IRS probe."The response of the Sestak campaign (as noted here)...
"'Curt can keep the $1,000 to cover his recent tab at the Borgata,' said Sestak spokesman Ryan Rudominer, referring to campaign expenditures flagged in January by former Democratic congressional candidate Bryan Lentz.And I love the part from Michael Puppio, Weldon’s campaign manager, saying that Sestak should return any money received from the “flag-draped coffins” ad; 1) Those ads are appropriate and should not have been pulled, and 2) Assuming that the amount of ad money that could have gone to Sestak could be calculated anyway, it would be a comparatively miniscule amount to anything raised by Weldon.
Weldon aides have said those expenditures - including $502 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, N.J.; $810 at an asphalt sealcoating company; $241 at Dick's Sporting Goods and several meals in Wildwood, N.J., the location of Weldon's old summer home - are legitimate uses of campaign funds."
And to think that “Crazy Curt” once criticized Sestak for the $350 contribution from Mary McCarthy, the former CIA analyst who was dismissed but has denied leaking classified information (removing any possible hint of impropriety as far as I’m concerned, even though the Repugs are unusually desperate to tar any Dem in light of their involvement with Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay up to their eyeballs).
Keep looking for those pesky WMDs, Curt. They’re bound to be out there somewhere.
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I just added the Bryan Lentz blog - thanks a lo.
..."lot," that is.
This is probably all a lot of inside baseball, mostly interesting to the blogging class. What I take away from it is that Weldon's folks are taking weak swings on obscure issues because they're up against a candidate with such a good resume and honorable record, that the best they can do is try to find somebody else in his outer ring who they can pin some slime factor onto.
The patronage system is the reason why the Republican machine has held up so well at the county level in Delco. I know a cop who was told 15 years ago in earlier municipal job that he would never be promoted so long as his wife was a Democratic committee woman. It's crumbling now because there's been so much turnover in the district. Even the new Republicans who've moved in aren't invested in the machine.
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