He hopes people join him. On Oct. Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo. Link Icon. Joe Sestak walked across Pa. Joe Sestak is no sure winner, but he is surely the strongest Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania against Senator Toomey.
What gives? Wow — what a loser. Council for a Livable World endorsed him in that race and every contest since. Two years later, proving it was no fluke, he won re-election by 20 points. What does this guy know about politics? Hmm, not a bad track record. So much so that he proposed making the US health care system look a lot more like the VHA — he hoped to pilot a program that would have created a national health system that employed its doctors, as the VHA does.
He also hoped to simultaneously test a Bernie Sanders-style Medicare-for-all, eventually either enrolling Americans in the VHA-style health system or moving everyone to Medicare-for-all. Despite his efforts, Sestak ultimately failed to connect with voters or secure the sort of national platform candidates with low name recognition need to facilitate fundraising. He leaves the race having never broken into the single digits in national polling.
There, he became known for being a prolific author of legislation, for expecting his staff to work as hard as he did, and for being extremely accessible to his constituents. He mostly flew under the radar, however, until he tried to run for the Senate, primarying and defeating the man President Barack Obama had promised to deliver the seat to but not before briefly embroiling the president in controversy by saying the White House had offered him a job in exchange for dropping out of the race.
After embarrassing the leader of his party, Sestak lost the general election. He also decided to walk across Pennsylvania to campaign, a move leaders felt was ill-advised. He lost that race, too. At the time, Sestak told voters his willingness to do what he felt was best showed that he wanted to put his constituents over the party. Not to party. Navy, rising to the rank of three-star admiral. In , Sestak assumed command of a battle group of thousands of sailors, marines and SEAL team members that participated in operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
In , he defeated a ten-term Republican incumbent to win a seat in the U. He served two terms in Congress before leaving office in He defeated longtime Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary in Sestak defied the Democratic establishment in to run against Specter, a former Republican who had flipped to join the Democrats in He lost the general election to Republican Pat Toomey.
He launched another Senate bid in but fell short in the Democratic primary. In Congress, Sestak had a record of getting bills passed.
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