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Toomey Campaign Stumbles Out Of The Gate

Vulnerable Republican Senator Pat Toomey officially launched his campaign over the weekend, but days later he is still generating terrible headlines over his ham-handed attempt to stop a demonstration from taking place outside of his campaign launch.

According to the Allentown Morning Call:

A gun-rights group planned to protest outside U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s legislative offices last weekend, but scuttled the rallies after receiving what it says were indications that the lawmaker would not reintroduce his gun background-check bill.

Toomey’s office disputes that staffers conveyed such a message to anyone at Pennsylvanians for Self-Protection, saying the Republican senator’s position in support of expanding background checks has not changed.

Reports show that Toomey, aware of the “political tightrope” he will have to walk in this election, initiated “back-channel conversations” with the gun-rights group in which “the activists received word from multiple sources this month that there was “no longer any plan to reintroduce” the Toomey-Manchin gun bill.” Nice leadership, Senator Toomey.

“After being elected by razor-thin margin in 2010, Pat Toomey knows that he’s got an incredibly difficult re-election ahead of him, and it seems that his strategy is to talk out of both sides of his mouth and hope Pennsylvanians don’t notice,” said DSCC National Press Secretary Sadie Weiner. “Unfortunately for Pat Toomey, his clumsy attempts to mislead Pennsylvanians and rewrite his record only succeeded in revealing his lack of leadership on the first official day of his campaign. Pat Toomey can try to have it both ways, but nothing will change his out-of-touch record.”

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