President Obama made repeated campaign promises to veto any legislation with earmarks--another broken pledge. Democrat Joe Sestak pushed one of those earmarks too far, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports:
Since the Allentown Morning Call first reported Saturday about a potentially improper earmark that Rep. Joe Sestak pushed, the Pat Toomey campaign has repeatedly hammered him while the Sestak campaign pleaded ignorance. At issue was the fact that a $350,000 earmark request for a wind turbine company in Sestak's district -- that ultimately wasn't approved -- was for a non-profit shell operation for a for-profit company. The House this year banned earmarks to for-profit companies.Technorati tags:
Today, Sestak released to the Philadelphia Daily News the letter he wrote to the Department of Energy on behalf of the Thomas Paine Foundation, along with the organization's application. It clearly links the non-profit to the for-profit New Way Energy LLC, also in Sestak's district. Drew Devitt was the sole officer for both.
Sestak told the Daily News that he "failed to catch in the letter" the connection between the non-profit and for-profit. "I just didn't put the two together," Sestak said. "It was my error."
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