Joe Sestak’s proposed earmark that would’ve gone to benefit a for-profit wind-energy company, in violation of House rules, has kept the candidate under the glare of publicity. And he’s not handled himself stellarly. Sestak’s story has changed more than once this week, and now he’s apologizing with a “clarification.”

BATTLE ’10 has covered this scandal here and here.

Ed Morrisey at Hot Air weighs in on the veracity of Joe Sestak’s latest version of the truth:

Sestak says he “failed to catch” the connection between New Way Energy [the for-profit] and the Thomas Paine Foundation [the non-profit] … er, that Sestak himself made in the first line of the letter to the Department of Energy. Maybe Sestak was just randomly typing on his keyboard and failed to notice that the letter actually contained a rather clear link between the non-profit and New Wave Energy? Didn’t Sestak even bother to read the letter before releasing it to the press?
If this is the kind of scrutiny Sestak plans to exercise over government spending and the kind of competence he will bring as a Senator, then Pennsylvanians should take this opportunity to retire Sestak.

BATTLE ’10 will continue to cover this story.