If you're pro-barely-regulated fracking, McGinty's your gal!!!

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16. Hi! Joe lost by only 2 percent in a year when GOP was sweeping Congressional races.

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He has campaigned across the state for the past 6 years, building up support. That's why he was 16 points ahead of McGinty until outside corporate/Big Energy interests and the Dem. Senate Campaign Committee threw over $4 million dollars into the primary - money which traditionally was reserved for whomever won the Dem primary, for use in the general election against the Republican.

She has NEVER held elective office, came in dead last when she ran for governor, and has no practical experience or knowledge re national security, foreign affairs, or any other policy subjects, except for her environmental work promoting fracking. She would be the quintessential yes-man(woman) to the establishment, 3rd way Democratic wing of the party.

Good grief, she was not even capable of being briefed sufficiently to show up at the candidates' debate on foreign policy. Here's what Sestak had to say about her failure to show up:

North Korea, Russia, Iran, Syria, China, ISIS, terrorism, Libya, Pakistan… what’s the plan to secure the peace but avoid another Iraq? Being absent is not leadership or serving the people – who now won’t know what she might know, or not.

31 years in the Navy; over 80 countries; war in Afghanistan, from the skies and on the ground; combat in Iraq; and service as President Clinton’s Director of Defense Policy taught me militaries can stop a problem, but they cannot fix a problem. Too few understand this – and as a result, the tragic misadventure in Iraq has cost our American Dream $3 trillion in direct and enduring costs.

Please watch what I had to say on the debate stage in the video below & send to the Senate someone who knows from experience the proper engagement of America in the world – because our security, our jobs, our economy, and our future prosperity depend upon it in an increasingly dangerous world.

And when retired admiral Sestak talks about having spent time in over 80 countries, he's not talking about fly into the airport, meet with the local mayor in the lobby for an hour and fly out again - the way Hillary Clinton checked countries off her bucket list so she could claim to have visited more countries than any other secretary of state. I went to the talk he gave at Pitt's law school on national security and foreign policy. There were law students there from Asian and Middle Eastern and African countries. They asked tough questions and he responded directly to them, with no dancing around, no cutting anyone off. He was up to the minute on every topic - even referring to international developments the day before.

Basically he said, we have to have a strong military. The use of military force is always on the table. But, he emphatically emphasized, it's at the BACK of the table. Diplomacy is what is called for. He also faulted taking military action without considering the potential fall out/results, (such as pursuing regime change/ ISIS / etc.). He talked about what a travesty the prison at Guantanamo has been. That over 1/2 of the prisoners there have been investigated and determined to NOT have been involved in terrorism. But as Joe pointed out, back at the time they were first detained, the U.S. was offering a bounty of $2,000 to anyone who turned in someone else as a terrorist. He talked about the importance of treating military prisoners according to international treaty law - NO TORTURE - because we want our soldiers/military forces to be treated humanely when they are captured.

He works with homeless vets (did you know 20 percent of our homeless in the US are vets?) and for the past 10 years he has spent veterans day at Graterford state prison where there is a chapter of Vietnam Vets - yes - all these decades after Vietnam - these veterans are in prison. As convicted felons, none of those prisoners are ever going to be able to vote for him - he's there so they know they are not forgotten. I first met Joe at the Veterans Place in Pittsburgh, and that meeting got me involved with helping homeless women vets.

Did you know he was forced into retirement from the Navy because he stood up and spoke out against Bush's boondoggle military spending on unnecessary numbers of ships? Did that piss of the MIC and those senior military planning to avail themselves of the revolving door between the military and MIC!

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/02/joe_sestak_senate_walk.html

Walking with Sestak: 'Joe marches to his own drum' in Senate race

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE. IT WILL ADDRESS ANY QUESTION YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT WHY JOE SESTAK IS THE VERY BEST CANDIDATE THE DEMS CAN PUT UP AGAINST TOOMEY.