Shot: On Monday, Katie McGinty referred to Pat Toomey as “an asshole, damnit.”
Chaser: POLITICO’s Burgess Everett reports that former Governor and McGinty Campaign Chairman Ed Rendell responded to McGinty’s expletive as, “a little extreme” citing that there is “too much disrespect in the business.”
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BONUS: Ed Rendell recognizes Pat Toomey as “a decent guy” and “a man of uncommon decency.”
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"You don’t have to demonize your opponent. I’ve said Pat Toomey, the Senator here, is a decent guy. I like Pat Toomey and I think he wants to do the right thing." (Ed Rendell, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, 7/24/16)
- "’I’m working on him,’ Rendell said then of Toomey. ‘I’m trying to teach him, because I think he’s a man of uncommon decency and a man who wants the process to work.’" (Robert J. Vickers, “Gun proposal elevates Toomey to PA’s most valuable political asset: analysis,” Harrisburg Patriot-News, 4/10/13)