Joe Sestak is benefitting from unions who received bailout funding for their pensions, and the PA Commercial Action Network is calling foul. In a statement obtained by Battle ‘10, PaCAN wrote:

Pennsylvania Unions such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and AFSCME have all endorsed Joe Sestak and Congressional Democrats that voted to support union pension bailouts. These are also the same unions that raged over the bailout of banks and financial institutions; even going so far as protesting at the homes of bank executives whose companies received taxpayer bailout money.
“The double standard is clear. Unions wanted to string up bank executives for accepting TARP bailout funds, but they’re campaigning for Congressional Democrats that passed out bailouts to union pensions,” said Matt Balazik, Managing Director of PaCAN. [emphasis added]
Worse than that, financial companies that received taxpayer bailout money were excoriated by unions for continuing their lobbying activities. Now, after receiving pension bailouts, these same unions don’t seem to have a problem working to elect candidates who voted to hand them over taxpayers’ money.

Battle ‘10 interviewed the PA Commercial Action Network last Saturday.