WHYY Column: “He represented an eastern Pennsylvania congressional district,” Borick said. “That’s where he established his home base. it would be a real hard to sell to say that he’s the western Pennsylvania candidate.”…
As Keegan Gibson of PoliticsPa has reported, Sestak raised more than $400,000 in the first quarter of 2013, and he did it in a federally registered committee, in contributions within federal limits. That means he can used those funds for a Senate run or a run for governor, where there are no campaign contribution limits here in the wide-open Keystone State…
As Jon Geeting writes on the liberal website Keystone Politics, plenty of Pennsylvania Democrats would welcome a Sestak run for governor, but want him to make up his mind and signal his intentions soon. Geeting notes that potential candidates for Sestak’s old congressional district, for example, would like to know whether it’s worth their time raising money and building an organization… (more)
EDITOR: Given our ‘druthers’, we would much prefer that Sestak run for governor. We see him as by far the strongest Democrat governor, and amply qualified. But that may not be where his heart lies.
