Tuesday, 27 January 2009 5:28AM
Specter Says No to Rendell’s Request to Change Parties
During a question and answer session at the Pennsylvania Press Club in Harrisburg on Monday, Senator Arlen Specter was asked if he might consider leaving the Republican party. Specter said it’s not the first time he’s heard that question recently:
“Governor Rendell made the suggestion to me. [He] said if I became a Democrat, he’d help me raise money. I told him if I became a Democrat, I wouldn’t have to raise any money [laughter].”
Specter says he was a ‘JFK Democrat’ before he became a Republican, but says he feels comfortable in the GOP. Specter also says he thinks the governor might have been joking about the party switch.
A Rendell spokesman says he doesn’t know if the governor was kidding but says if Specter wants to take him up on the offer, the door is open.
This was BEFORE he started losing to Toomey!