A conservative activist who ran for Pennsylvania governor three times in the 1990s says she will challenge Arlen Specter for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate next year. Peg Luksik, of Johnstown, said Tuesday she is not deterred by the prospective candidacy of former congressman Pat Toomey. Toomey, a fellow conservative who narrowly lost to Specter in the 2004 primary, says he is considering running in 2010. Luksik says Toomey told her last month that he wouldn't challenge Specter. She says it's up to Toomey to decide whether he wants to risk dividing the GOP's conservative wing and allowing Specter to win a sixth term.
Yup, exactly like that!
The last statewide election Peg Luksik ran was as a candidate of the Constitution Party. I think her entry is actually a plus for Pat Toomey because he can effectively ignore her in the primary and use her for proof that he is a moderate in the general election because “the extreme conservative lost to me in the primary election.”