Just days after the Obama administration claimed it did nothing improper by offering Rep. Joe Sestak a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, a sitting governor has announced that he too once offered a politician a job to convince him to stay out of a race.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” said such offers have “happened in politics for time immemorial.”
“I did the same thing in 2006 to ask a former congressman, Joe Hoeffel, to drop out of the race against Bob Casey in the primary,” Rendell told Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
Sestak admitted months ago that the Obama administration offered him a job to back out of his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Sestak went on to win that race. But it wasn’t until Friday that the White House Counsel’s Office divulged details about the offer and admitted that it was former President Bill Clinton who offered Sestak a non-paying advisory board position.
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