Posted on 05/27/2010 8:51:38 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Allegations that the White House offered Joe Sestak a job in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Senate race echo an earlier report of a job offer to candidate Andrew Romanoff in Colorado.
On September 27, 2009 the Denver Post reported that the Obama administration offered Senate candidate Romanoff a position if he canceled plans to run for the Democratic nomination against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet.
The paper said the job offer, which specified particular jobs, was reportedly delivered by Jim Messina, Obama’s deputy chief of staff. One position cited by the Post was a job at USAID, the foreign aid agency.
Messina contacted Romanoff soon after news leaked in August 2009 that Romanoff, former Colorado House speaker, would make a primary run against Bennet.
Romanoff turned down the offer and announced his candidacy. Obama then endorsed Bennet, who had been appointed in January 2009 to fill the seat vacated when Ken Salazar became Secretary of the Interior.
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Nixon tried that line. His problem, there were Republicans in Congress with a sense of honor and the law.Obama won’t have that problem with the Democrats in Congress.And there will be no Woodward and Bernstein to keep this in the public view. Today’s version will do everything necessary to keep these crimes hidden.
We already impeached the first black president....
Hussein is real good at promises. Jobs for everyone! Funny, he hasn’t followed through with any of them.
First we have to find out who offered the bribe so that he can be forced to testify as to why he did so, on whose orders before the leap can be made that impeachment is mandated. By not telling who he had the conversation(s) with, Sestak is protecting a felon; at this point, it is not clear that felon is 0bama.
The sole accomplishment of that was that young girls and boys no longer considered oral sex as 'sex'.
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