The Sestak Report: Joe Sestak – AWOL

By ARLEN SPECTER FOR SENATE

Dear [Xxx],

Q. In the 19-member Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation, who’s missed the most votes this year?
A. Congressman Joe Sestak. Sestak has missed 78 votes in Congress so far this year, or nearly 15%, while campaigning for his theoretical Senate run.

Q. Who has the 13th worst attendance record this year in the entire Congress?
A. Joe Sestak. That’s right. Only twelve other Members of Congress have missed more votes than Sestak in 2009, including two members who are in rehab, one recovering from back surgery and several under government investigation.

Q. Is it true that 97% of all members of Congress have a better attendance record than Congressman Sestak.
A. Yes. Sestak ranks that low — 97% of all members of Congress have a better attendance record than Congressman Sestak.

Q. What’s Senator Specter’s attendance?
A. Specter has been present for 98.7% of all votes in the Senate this year.

You can learn more about Sestak’s poor attendance record here.

Sestak voted in just 13 of the 35 (37%) general elections from 1971 through 2005, according to official records available at the Delaware County Courthouse.

When confronted by this information Sestak said in response: “In other years for example, in 1994 — the records show that I requested an absentee ballot because I was serving out of Pennsylvania.”

That’s true, sort of: Sestak was serving ‘out of Pennsylvania’ in 1994. Where was he serving? In Washington DC, with the National Security Council…at the White House!

Joe Sestak. He doesn’t vote in Pennsylvania and he doesn’t vote in Congress.

P.S. Sestak said what?

On MSNBC last week, Congressman Joe Sestak told host Andrea Mitchell that “Every officer is a Democrat.”
To watch for yourself, click here. Sestak makes this absurd statement at about the 2:40 mark.

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July 15, 2009 at 3:53 pm

--pa2010.com Staff