{"id":8831,"date":"2009-05-11T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-11T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:06:23","slug":"pasen-netroots-overwhelmingly-support-a-draft-sestak-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/11\/pasen-netroots-overwhelmingly-support-a-draft-sestak-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"PA-Sen: Netroots Overwhelmingly Support a Draft Sestak Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru<\/a>.<\/i>}<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Netroots<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nAs many of you know, over the last five days, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee<\/a>, in partnership with a number of progressive organizations and blogs including Senate Guru<\/a>, asked those in the netroots, “Should a Draft Sestak movement be created to take on Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary?”<\/p>\n

The results are in<\/a> and they are overwhelming.  85% of Pennsylvanian respondents and 86% of respondents nationally want Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak<\/a> to challenge Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic Senate primary.  The poll has even gotten the attention of Congressman Sestak, as the PCCC points out:<\/p>\n

“I am honored that so many of you took the time to vote in the recent grassroots Straw Poll. Let me tell you, I and many others were paying attention. If I decide to run it will be in large measure because of the grassroots energy of so many people like you. Until I and my family make that decision, please accept my thanks and my best wishes as you continue be active participants in our people-powered democracy. Thank you so very much!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to such an overwhelming response, a Draft Sestak Fund<\/a> has been created on ActBlue.  To contribute and further encourage Congressman Sestak to enter the race, click on the image below:<\/p>\n

\"Draft<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

If you need any additional motivation to contribute to this effort to draft a real Democrat to oppose Specter in the primary, consider Specter’s actions since announcing his Party switch:<\/p>\n

1) Specter opposed<\/a> the Obama budget.
\n
2) Specter opposed<\/a> the “cramdown” mortgage\/bankruptcy reform, siding with banks over families.
\n
3) Specter reiterated his opposition<\/a> to the Employee Free Choice Act.
\n
4) Specter reiterated his opposition<\/a> to President Obama’s nomination of Dawn Johnsen to the Office of Legal Counsel.
\n
5) Specter announced his support for Republican Norm Coleman<\/a> over Democratic Senator-elect Al Franken in Minnesota’s Senate race.
\n
6) Specter promoted a website<\/a> that appeared to raise money for cancer research but, in actuality, simply raised money for his campaign.
\n
7) Specter denied reports<\/a> that he told President Obama that he would be a “loyal Democrat” despite multiple reporters sticking to their story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The netroots have displayed overwhelming support for Congressman Sestak to take on recently-Republican Arlen Specter.  Help the effort by contributing to the Draft Sestak Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru<\/a>.<\/i>}<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Netroots<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nAs many of you know, over the last five days, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee<\/a>, in partnership with a number of progressive organizations and blogs including Senate Guru<\/a>, asked those in the netroots, “Should a Draft Sestak movement be created to take on Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary?”<\/p>\n

The results are in<\/a> and they are overwhelming.  85% of Pennsylvanian respondents and 86% of respondents nationally want Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak<\/a> to challenge Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic Senate primary.  The poll has even gotten the attention of Congressman Sestak, as the PCCC points out:<\/p>\n

“I am honored that so many of you took the time to vote in the recent grassroots Straw Poll. Let me tell you, I and many others were paying attention. If I decide to run it will be in large measure because of the grassroots energy of so many people like you. Until I and my family make that decision, please accept my thanks and my best wishes as you continue be active participants in our people-powered democracy. Thank you so very much!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to such an overwhelming response, a Draft Sestak Fund<\/a> has been created on ActBlue.  To contribute and further encourage Congressman Sestak to enter the race, click on the image below:<\/p>\n

\"Draft<\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

If you need any additional motivation to contribute to this effort to draft a real Democrat to oppose Specter in the primary, consider Specter’s actions since announcing his Party switch:<\/p>\n

1) Specter opposed<\/a> the Obama budget.
\n
2) Specter opposed<\/a> the “cramdown” mortgage\/bankruptcy reform, siding with banks over families.
\n
3) Specter reiterated his opposition<\/a> to the Employee Free Choice Act.
\n
4) Specter reiterated his opposition<\/a> to President Obama’s nomination of Dawn Johnsen to the Office of Legal Counsel.
\n
5) Specter announced his support for Republican Norm Coleman<\/a> over Democratic Senator-elect Al Franken in Minnesota’s Senate race.
\n
6) Specter promoted a website<\/a> that appeared to raise money for cancer research but, in actuality, simply raised money for his campaign.
\n
7) Specter denied reports<\/a> that he told President Obama that he would be a “loyal Democrat” despite multiple reporters sticking to their story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The netroots have displayed overwhelming support for Congressman Sestak to take on recently-Republican Arlen Specter.  Help the effort by contributing to the Draft Sestak Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7263,268,4075,2690,7246,554,7245,7264],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7263","tag-268","tag-4075","tag-2690","tag-7246","tag-554","tag-7245","tag-7264"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}