Entering the final weekend of the campaign, Senator Pat Toomey earned the significant endorsement of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette while Shady Katie McGinty finds herself still trying to wade through the email controversy that has plagued her campaign in recent weeks.
The Post-Gazette offered praise to Toomey for his “willingness to reach across the aisle,” and the decision to “put himself front and center” on controversial issues all while being “open-minded” and “neither inflexible nor a party zealot.”
Meanwhile, the Associated Press detailed a different reality for McGinty…As some emails are starting to be released as part of the 16 month-long inquiry into her real activity as Governor Wolf’s Chief of Staff, voters are learning that McGinty’s long history of putting self-service over public-service occurred on the taxpayer dime as recently as last year.
From the Associated Press:
As top Democrats in Washington recruited her, there also were hints that McGinty was considering running for U.S. Senate before she left the chief of staff’s job in July 2015.
In April 2015, McGinty’s daily schedule included a Philadelphia meeting with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Her calendars or emails also showed scheduled meetings in Philadelphia with various political figures or supporters, including an April 30 meeting in a Philadelphia state office space with Democratic Party Chairman Marcel Groen.
In June 2015, she asked for details on Toomey’s performance from a newly released public poll after a Wolf communications staffer circulated elements of it that involved Wolf’s performance.
A prominent Democratic fundraiser in Philadelphia forwarded McGinty a link to a June 29, 2015 New York Times story titled, “Hillary Clinton Faces a More Liberal Democratic Fund-Raising Landscape.” In July 2015, an email appeared to contain the contact information of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, a key cog in Senate Democrats’ national campaign strategy.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – watch Katie McGinty unable to answer questions about her emails with the Patriot-News editorial board:
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