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  •  Chuck Schumer (none / 1)

    actually said that they cleared the field for Casey by convincing the other candidates not to run.  These quotes have been all over the internet.  

    Pennacchio for Pennsylvania

    by PAprogressive on Thu Aug 25, 2005 at 12:38:54 PM PDT

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      Chuck Schumer

      for the DSCC Schumer has been grotesque enough to brag on this accomplishment. Imagine my replies....

      •  Here's one of Schumer's statement:s (4.00 / 5)

        Taped at a private party:

        "So I called up Governor...our number one target is Rick Santorum...let him go back to wherever he lives, Maryland, you know you heard about it, he is Pennsylvania but he tried to get exempt from the school tax there cause he lives in Maryland even though he is a registered citizen of Pennsylvania. In any case I called up the Governor of Pennsylvania, Governor Rendell, I said who is the best candidate to beat Santorum. He there is only one person who could beat him but A he won't run and B you wouldn't want him to run. I said why wouldn't we want him to run, he said he's pro-life. He's a deeply religious Catholic man. Bob Casey."

        "I said, those days are over Ed. Yes I'm pro-choice, but we need the best candidate. We can't insist that every democrat check off 18 different issues before they get (unintelligible) we could do that, we can't anymore. And so, we persuaded, Harry using his very...Harry has amazing insights into people...and we together persuaded Bob Casey to run. A poll yesterday...national...all the polls they did...Casey 51 Santorum 40. You should see Santorum nervous and walkin on the floor."

        (unintelligible)

        "And we're doing this in the other states."

        A link to the audio of this bragging here.

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