Bill Clinton Visits Montco to Campaign for Local Dems
Former President Bill Clinton is doing some campaigning in the Philadelphia area today for the Democrats running for U.S. Senate and governor.
KYW's Brad Segall reports that the former president made a campaign stop for U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Sestak at the Kaiserman Branch of the Jewish Community Center in Wynnewood, Pa. (Montgomery County). Clinton played to the crowd made up mostly of seniors telling them the Republicans are only interested in privatizing Medicare and Social Security and cutting taxes for the wealthy:
"And the only thing that really matters in this election is who's got the right ideas about what to do next. We stopped digging, now we got to get out of the hole and go into the future and my suggestion is don't bring back the shovel brigade."
Not one to miss a photo op, the popular former president posed with a group of excited school children waiting to go to their next class.
Sestak needs the firepower, he trails in the polls by as much as nine percentage points. Clinton also made a campaign stop for gubernatorial hopeful Dan Onorato.
In a written statement, Pat Toomey's camp was critical of the support for Sestak:
"Joe Sestak likes to bring in politicians from other states to endorse him because he wants to run away from the fact that his voting record, while 100% in line with Nancy Pelosi, is vastly more liberal than most Pennsylvanians, including more liberal than many of his fellow Pennsylvania Democrats in Congress."
(photo by KYW's Brad Segall)
