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Monday, May 04, 2009

Dean, Carville Warn Specter: Shape Up Or Face Primary

* Dem Rep Joe Sestak, who’s mulling a Dem primary challenge to Arlen Specter, just flatly predicted after meeting with SEIU chief Andy Stern this afternoon that the unions won’t back Specter in the primary if he doesn’t drop his opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act.
“I cannot see the unions across the board supporting Specter if he cannot support EFCA,” Sestak said in an interview with me a few moments ago. “[Stern] let it be known that it’s very much on the top of their agenda.”
Sestak cautioned that Stern didn’t directly address the 2010 primary. But he said the meeting went “great,” strongly suggesting that SEIU is seriously considering supporting him or another primary challenger to Specter. “It was very clear that there were a number of issues we agree on,” Sestak said of his much-anticipated meeting with Stern.
Sestak also confirmed that he’d almost certainly get in the race if Specter doesn’t show a major ideological change of heart. “If he doesn’t demonstrate that he has shifted his position on a number of issues, I would not hesitate at all to get in,” Sestak said.

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