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Pat Toomey and Joe Sestak are both doing their best to play up their respective bona fides on military support, with Sestak touting his three decades in the Navy, and Toomey now brandishing an endorsement from John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy under President Reagan.
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Pat Meehan is getting the support of “politically potent labor unions” in his bid to replace Joe Sestak as the next congressman in Delaware County’s 7th district. Meehan, endorsed by Chris Christie, is facing Bryan Lentz, a man endorsed by President Obama.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer writes on the start of negative campaigning as we near the thirty-day mark until Election Day.
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John Gizzi writes at Human Events that Pat Toomey is riding an anti-Obama wave in Pennsylvania. He writes: “Former Gov. and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge—a well-known moderate GOPer who had seriously considered a primary race for the Senate—weighed in strongly for Toomey.”
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Dan Onorato, consistently down in the polls to rival Tom Corbett, is charging that Corbett has already violated his no-tax pledge. Onorato points out that Corbett might require increasing workers’ payroll deductions to close a $3 billion gap in unemployment funding, saying this amounts to a new tax.