Thursday, April 30, 2009

GOP donors demand money back from Specter

"They gave that money to elect a Republican. They did not give that money to strengthen [Democratic Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid's majority," NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh said. "I expect a lot of people will be looking to have their money returned."
Uh-oh. One thing politicians never like is having to hand back the money ... and it looks as if Republican turncoat Arlen Specter is going to be returning tens of thousands of dollars demanded by angry Republicans after his switch to the Democrat side of the aisle.

How much is he looking at? A quick glance shows:
$5,000 - Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
$5,000 - Lamar Alexander's (R-TN) Tenn PAC
$5,000 - Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) Alamo PAC
$5,000 - Sen. Bob Corker's (R-TN) Rock City PAC
$10,000 - Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-K) Bluegrass Committee
One Republican is even demanding that Specter return all campaign donations:
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Robert A. Gleason Jr. isn't satisfied with Mr. Specter returning campaign contributions on request. He wants the senator to return all of his campaign loot voluntarily.

Mr. Gleason told CNN that the new Democrat should "do the right thing and proactively return any and all campaign contributions he has received in recent months to run as a Republican in the upcoming election."

He also wants Mr. Specter to apologize to the state's Republicans for misleading them.

Mr. Specter, long considered among the more liberal Republicans in Congress, said he switched parities in part to avoid a formidable challenge from staunch fiscal conservative Pat Toomey in the Republican primary for the 2010 election.
Specter surveyed the landscape ... saw he couldn't win ... and he defected.

Loyalty ... betrayal ... turncoat ... there aren't even enough adjectives to describe someone like that.

1 comment:

Cargosquid said...

He wants Specter to apologize to the state's Republicans for misleading them? Why the hell did they think that he was a Republican? What gave them that idea? Because he had an "R" behind his name? Please. They shouldn't have supported him in the first place. Those people that gave him money instead of demanding new representation get what they deserve.