{"id":1692,"date":"2010-03-15T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T07:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2010-03-15T07:45:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T07:45:56","slug":"the_undertheradar_stonewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"The Under-The-Radar Stonewall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s Washington Examiner<\/a> 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.  <\/p>\n

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<\/a> reported on February 19th that a White House spokesman had denied the charge.<\/p>\n

Robert Gibbs has been asked about this charge five times and has successfully avoided answering the question each time.  <\/p>\n

The article points out:<\/p>\n

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“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.””<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a serious charge made by a serious person.  It needs to be investigated–not simply avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}