Specter's Primary Fight: It's Official

By CQ-Roll Call Staff | April 15, 2009 8:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

After a long drumroll, Sen. Arlen Specter finally has the long-threatened 2010 primary fight.

Former Rep. Pat Toomey sent out a news release this morning announcing that he has posted a videtaped message on his campaign web site.

"If Pennsylvania's senior senator stood up for taxpayers and job creation - instead of routinely voting against taxpayer interests - I would feel less compelled to run. Unfortunately, he does not," says Toomey.

Specter has been behaving as though the fight was enjoined even before Toomey's announcement, as the latest addition to the CQ Politics Insiders Network, Bill Pascoe, has described. And Toomey poses a bit of a dilemma for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which has to decide how aggressive a posture to take in defending Specter against a fellow Republican.

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