Saturday's Washington Examiner posted a story by Byron York about the stonewalling by White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, on charges that the White House attempted to bribe a Congressman to keep him out of an election. Robert Gibbs is continuing to avoid answering questions about the charges by Democratic Representative Joe Sestak that the White House offered him a job in the current administraiton in return for dropping out of the Democrat primary race in Pennsylvania.
Representative Sestak is challenging Arlen Specter in the Democrat Senate primary. On February 18th, Joe Sestak told a radio talk show host that last summer, when he was contemplating a run for Arlen Specter's Senate seat, a job offer had come from the White House on the condition that he would not run. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on February 19th that a White House spokesman had denied the charge.
Robert Gibbs has been asked about this charge five times and has successfully avoided answering the question each time.
The article points out:
"Not only is the charge serious; Sestak himself, with his long career in the Navy before winning a seat in Congress, is a serious source. On March 8, at a health care event in Pennsylvania, President Obama referred to Sestak as "somebody who rendered outstanding service to our nation before he was in Congress.""
This is a serious charge made by a serious person. It needs to be investigated--not simply avoided.
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