The Plum Line Archive: Joe Sestak
Saturday Roundup
* It remains unspeakably strange that in the alternate universe known as the U.S. Senate, one of the largest environmental calamities in history has made drilling more imperative to passing energy reform. * BP appears to have resumed its efforts...
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May 29, 2010; 10:49 AM ET |
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* Not sure why this isn't getting more attention: BP's efforts to plug the damn hole stalled again at 2:30 A.M. this morning. And there's this: The suspension of the effort was not announced, and appeared to again contradict statements...
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May 28, 2010; 5:30 PM ET |
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Bush ethics chief to GOP: 'Move on' from Sestak story
Earlier this week, Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics officer under George W. Bush, argued that it didn't look like there all that was much to the Joe Sestak story. Even if there had been some kind of "job"...
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May 28, 2010; 2:57 PM ET |
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Joe Sestak's version of the White House job offer story
Joe Sestak's statement, just out, downplays the story about his White House job offer even more than the White House's version of events did: Last summer, I received a phone call from President Clinton. During the course of the conversation,...
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May 28, 2010; 1:15 PM ET |
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White House offered Joe Sestak unpaid advisory board position
I noted below that the White House asked Bill Clinton to meet with Joe Sestak to gauge whether he'd be open to alternatives other than running for Senate. Now I've got some detail on precisely what alternatives were discussed. According...
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May 28, 2010; 11:35 AM ET |
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EXCLUSIVE: White House asked Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about Senate run
Senior White House advisers asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about whether he was serious about running for Senate, and to feel out whether he'd be open to other alternatives, according to sources familiar with the...
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May 28, 2010; 9:49 AM ET |
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