Senator Casey’s brother Chris Casey has been appointed to this committee. Joined by Mathew Casey’s (Another Brother Of senator Robert Casey) Law Partner, and senator Specter’s son Law Partner was also chose.

When did America and the Department of Justice become a Family Affair of Royalty not seen since the Kennedy Days that force congress to pass laws to prevent such nepotism in the DOJ. These appointments are not the way to secure fair and equal justice without any winking from sons and brothers Law Partners?

These US Attorneys will be beholden to under due influence a long with the committee wanting to please senator Casey and Specter.

This is a crystal clear violation of ethics, conflict of interests, and outright power grab by two senators to force their appointments by what family members approve. This is the problem America has been doing with interlocking Board Of Directors on Wall Street helping each other out.

I cannot believe in all of Pennsylvania there can be found no Lawyers, Judges, and Law Professors that do not require family relations to be on this so-called unbias and fair committee to choose our next US Attorneys.

This is just plain wrong and must be reversed, where is the press, and ethics commission and what are Casey and Specter thinking by doing such things in todays world of corruption due to undue personal influences?

Could you please reference your active court case for your claim of theft.

Yeah I thought not. If you really wanted to stop Sestak, and your claim had any merit, you wouldn’t be tarnishing your own reputation posting lunatic ravings here, you would simply have taken Sestak to court.

You’ve made it clear that your motivation for your attacks is a personal vendetta. Good luck with that.

This guy doesn’t give a damn about you or me. It’s obvious his only desire is to hold on to his cushy senate seat.

Time to get rid of this Turn coat weasel.

I may even consider changing parties to help effect the outcome of the primaries….

I can’t think of a more lothesome individual in politics today.

Arlan’s agenda is clear! Keep that senate seat at all costs.

Matt (no last name)
Do you honestly think he could have run against Weldon in the Republican Primary? There was ZERO chance there. He would have been lucky to even get on the ballot. Weldon certainly couldn’t have lost his own Primary.

In 2004, the Dems crossed the magic 40% threshold against Weldon, with a candidate that started his campaign in August (because the original candidate got shipped off to Iraq). Given the anti-war trend, and desire to take back congress, ‘Dem’ was the ONLY choice for Sestak politically (regardless of his own personal ideological preference). It DOES make sense, and you DON’T.

As for my program:
1) the campaign used it the first 6 months
2) the campaign thought it valuable enough to steal a copy of the data when they switched over to SAGE as part of the coordinated campaign with Rendell and Casey
3) I defended Sestak vigorously on the blogs as late as April 2007 regarding CAIR (long after anything involving my program)
4) I went after Sestak for his betrayal of the voters and the troops when he supported a blank check for Bush on Iraq.

This “10,000 constituency cases” still seems a little bogus as it has no real context.
1) What were Weldon’s numbers? (comparing to other districts is irrelevant)
2) How many more many hours is he forcing his staff to spend? (is it unpaid overtime?)
3) How “successful” are the cases (what’s the batting average vs times at bat?)
4) How many of these cases are completely frivolous and an inappropriate waste, just so Sestak can inflate his numbers?

I don’t vote/campaign for a candidate based upon their constituency services program. Except for real emergency situations and to collect basic feedback/information about key issues, I think the entire concept is ridiculous and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Every candidate gets ZERO points for that in my book (Weldon supposedly was pretty responsive that way too, but he voted wrong.)
Sestak’s votes that were completely contrary to his campaign promises, the Dem party, and basic constitutional principles about congressional oversight are my reasons to wish him out of office.
His completely arrogant attitude and disrespect for his fellow Democrats is the icing on the cake that proves (to me) that all the “honor” he talks about is something the military taught, but he failed to learn.

More innuendo (1) and (4), anecdotal reasoning (2), and expecting everyone to act as you think (3).

If you truly believe that registering independent while a navy officer on active duty (Sestak) is more damaging to a claim of being a true Democrat than is holding public office as a Republican for 30 years (Specter), then I suggest you get yourself an alaytical tune up.

1) Sestak’s family was also Independent until they switched to Dem when Joe ran. So, the lack of party affiliation appears to be more how his family was raised, but NOW he’s trying to pretend that it was military service. I’m not buying it that he would have switched to Dem, once he retired, if he hadn’t run.

2) Sestak is trying to claim the mantle of a “real” Democrat, without any history to prove it. His excuse just doesn’t hold water. I’ve got Dem friends that registered as Dem. And I’ve met recovering Republican servicemen that were TOLD to register Republican by their commanding officers.
Sestak was under no obligation by the military to register one way or another, so for Sestak to blame the military for his own lack of political conviction is LAME.

3) To me, the very idea that military personnel should avoid expressing their political opinion or engage in the political process is out dated concept that need to go the way of segregation of the forces. The soldiers are the best of the best, but the military culture around them still has a lot of antiquated ideas that prevent them from being the “best they can be” by holding them back from experiencing the full range of the freedoms they are protecting.
For example, I’m completely opposed to the idea that military personnel can’t criticize the President if they think he has a bad policy that’s risking their lives. “Unit cohesion” is often used by the higher ups to continue bad policies (segregation, ban on gays, etc.) and not have to admit mistakes or confront the people paying for their mistakes.

4) Don, just because YOU are a principle person who has honor, don’t assume that Sestak is like you, just because he served. Try reaching out and talking to the people that served under him to find out if he treated them with the proper respect.