Toomey: 'McGinty So Devoted To Clinton, She Has Own Email Scandal'
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- U.S. Senator Pat Toomey visited the Court Diner in Media, Delaware County on Monday to make sure that his Republican-friendly supporters help get out the vote, next week.
Senator Toomey thanked Congressman Pat Meehan and Andy Reilly, Chairman of the Delaware County Republican Party, for their support, and then turned his attention to his Democratic challenger, Katie McGinty.
"She wants to double-down on all the failed policies that we've had," Toomey said, "all of the wasteful spending, the big deficits, all of that tax increases."
Toomey says McGinty's "devotion to Hillary Clinton is so complete," that McGinty "has her own email scandal."
"Katie McGinty and Governor Wolf have been stonewalling a completely legitimate legal request that she turn over 15,000 emails that she sent and received when she was the chief of staff for Tom Wolf," Toomey said.
In mid-October, Commonwealth Court ordered the governor's office to release the emails within 30 days, which effectively would happen after the election. McGinty served as Wolf's chief of staff for about six months, after her failed bid for governor, and before she departed to run for U.S. Senate.
McGinty's campaign says "transparency is her top priority and that she has no problem with the Governor's office releasing the emails."
Toomey says if the GOP is to hold onto its Senate Majority, Republicans need to help him win in places like Delaware County.
"This is a county where the vote could swing a great deal, either way," Toomey said. And I need to do well here."
A McGinty victory could tip Senate control to Democrats.
