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Raw Video: Specter¿s Re-Elected Quote
Rendell Also Speaks Out On Controversial Ad
Sometimes, one political ad can define a campaign. Joe Sestak's "re-elected" ad quoting Arlen Specter is in that category, and we have the raw video of Specter's quote.
The Sestak ad, which airs part of a Specter quote and ends in a freeze frame of Specter, triggered counter-ads from Specter saying Sestak deliberately misquoted him.
On Monday, Specter told a local sports radio show in Philadelphia he will defeat Sestak in Tuesday's Pennsylvania Democratic primary.
Specter called into 610 WIP and spoke with host Angelo Cataldi, in what turned out to be a Sestak-bashing session.
The biggest topic was Sestak’s TV ad showing Specter speaking with reporters at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station about switching parties to get re-elected.
Specter said it was an attack ad that showed Sestak's character.
The full quote from that May 1, 2009, interview at 30th Street Station is this: "My change in party will enable me to be reelected. And I have heard that again and again and again on the street, 'Senator, I'm glad you'll be able to stay in the Senate and help the state and the nation."
Specter says he changed parties to help get the Obama stimulus plan approved.
The Sestak ad features the first sentence of the interview: "My change in party will enable me to be reelected.”
Fox 29 spoke with Sestak as he met with voters in Love Park on Friday. He claims Specter wouldn't have needed to vote for a stimulus bill if he hadn't helped destroy the economy by supporting the Republican positions all of those years.
"Look, I am glad he did finally vote for it after the damage that he helped contribute to it. And that's the issue: Where's the accountability for that vote when he let Wall Street be deregulated, where he said you don't have to tell us what you're actually doing up there," Sestak said.
Gov. Ed Rendell weighed in on a controversial campaign ad Friday at an event for Specter.
Rendell said the incumbent senator's vote for the stimulus package made him unpopular with Republicans but helped save or create 20,000 Pennsylvania jobs.