Pros And Cons Of Pat Toomey

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Senator Patrick “Pat” Toomey has represented Pennsylvania valiantly for many years but his recent voting decisions and past bills has lost the voice of citizens in Pennsylvania. As a senator of Pennsylvania, he has made rash votes that has cost much support from his own Republican party and much of the Pennsylvania. The voices Pennsylvanians have been lost in the senate, now more than ever there needs to be a change in Pennsylvania to give the voices back to the Pennsylvanians and help growth our great state. In the last two decades, Pennsylvania swung from a Republican state to a Democratic state in the Presidential Elections. Although much of the districts or counties are Republican in Pennsylvania, there is a strong concentration of Democrats in the southeastern and western part of Pennsylvania that make up three times the number of people compared to the population in any other part of PA (Fiorillo, 2012). Since there is a higher population of Democrats than Republican, the elected official have to pursue both sides …show more content…

He had reached over 10,000 friends on Facebook and over 4,000 followers on Twitter when it was a startup company. Both of these numbers were dramatically higher than Joe Sestak’s accounts combined from Facebook and Twitter. Toomey had indicated that Sestak was a “leftist liberal aligned with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi” (Altman, 2010). And exposed Sestak for taking support from government officials who in which Sestak had accused the White House of offering him a job in exchange for dropping out of the Democratic primary. Toomey also had help from inside the government with Arlen Specter’s former chief of staff David Urban a lobbyist who wanted to help Toomey win the electing by getting the moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats to get Toomey elected (Malloy,