“I am going to get into the race against Arlen Specter ... for
senator.”
So
says Pennsylvania US Rep. Joe Sestak, a Democrat from
suburban Philadelphia. Sestak made the statement this morning in
an interview with a local paper, the Wayne Independent.
A former Navy Admiral, Sestak was elected in 2006, defeating
longtime Republican incumbent Curt Weldon.
This will mean a serious fight inside the Democratic Party for
the new Democrat Specter. Specter left the GOP after polls showed
he was headed for a certain GOP primary defeat at the hands of
former GOP Congressman Pat Toomey, who narrowly lost to Specter
in the 2004 Republican primary. While Specter has the support of
President Obama, his longtime friend Vice President Joe
Biden, and Governor Ed Rendell, Rendell is term-limited and
will be replaced himself in 2010.
