White House reports that Rahm asked Bill Clinton to speak to Sestak about staying out of the race, leaving the field to Spector. In return, he would have been given some kind of unpaid advisory role. Per WaPo.
At the urging of the Obama White House, former President Bill Clinton asked Rep. Joe Sestak whether he would abandon his plans to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic primary if given an unpaid, advisory position, according to a White House counsel report issued Friday morning.
Clinton made the inquiries on behalf of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel last summer, as Sestak began his challenge of Specter, a former Republican who had switched parties, White House Counsel Bob Bauer wrote. Obama publicly backed Specter’s reelection bid over Sestak, who remained in the primary and defeated the veteran senator this month.
Bauer concluded that nothing improper had taken place and that “allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law.” Contrary to allegations by many conservative pundits, he found that Sestak had not been offered the position of secretary of the Navy. Bauer concluded that discussions about “alternatives” to a Senate campaign by Sestak were proper.
White House reports that Rahm asked Bill Clinton to speak to Sestak about staying out of the race, leaving the field to Spector. In return, he would have been given some kind of unpaid advisory role. Per WaPo.
Sestak confirms conversation.