Joe Calls for Commonsense Solutions for Pennsylvania

Press Release

U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak today called for commonsense solutions that benefit all Pennsylvanians rather than out-of-touch policies like those supported by Pat Toomey that only benefit the privileged few.

"Rather than talking about the issues important to Pennsylvanians, Pat Toomey has spent this race opposing commonsense solutions for working families and covering up his record of corporate favoritism," said Joe. "In these tough economic times, Pennsylvania cannot afford to have a leader who would rather work for the interests of Wall Street."

At the press conference today several people spoke about the heartaches they've experienced in recent years, including a nurse in danger of losing her job thanks to cuts in Medicaid, a small business owner whose industry has been in decline thanks to trade agreements that push jobs overseas and a man who faced foreclosure during the housing crisis.

Admiral Sestak said each speaker was representative of the struggles millions of working families are facing every day thanks to the failed economic policies touted by Pat Toomey, including deregulating Wall Street and working against the engine of our economy: the small business.

"He has harmed small businesses by cutting Small Business Administration loans and voting for tax loopholes that allowed corporations to take jobs overseas at the expense of Pennsylvanians everywhere," said Joe, adding that Toomey has worked against Pennsylvania families in other ways with his continued push to privatize social security and opposition to boosts in Pell Grant funding.

Admiral Sestak was also joined today by former Congressman Joe Hoeffel, who served with Toomey in Congress. Hoeffel said Toomey believes in a dangerous ideology that holds that tax cuts, deregulation, and corporate welfare for the most powerful will mean their wealth will trickle down to everyone. He added that belief in these trickle-down economics that have been proven wrong over and over again show just how "out of touch" he is with the needs of Pennsylvania.

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