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	Pat Toomey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patrick Joseph "Pat" Toomey (born November 17, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a United States politician.
		In the early 1990s, Toomey moved to the Lehigh Valley with his brothers to open a series of bars and restaurants in the area.
		Toomey's campaign theme was that Specter, a moderate-to-liberal figure, was not conservative enough to be the Republican nominee from Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Toomey (267 words)

	Primary 2004: Specter, Toomey argue about who is out of step with Pa. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pat Toomey, R-Allentown, who was 18 in 1980, remembers being inspired by Reagan and the strain of conservative Republicanism he represented.
		Toomey came in first in a six-person GOP primary with a platform emphasizing the fiscal conservatism that remains at the core of his political career.
		Toomey now voices strong opposition to abortion, an evolution, he said, that was spurred in part by the birth of his own first child.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04109/302006.stm (2292 words)

	F&M \| Center for Politics and Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toomey�s challenge on the surface appears to be the Senator�s most serious primary opponent since his initial election to the Senate in 1980.
		Toomey has for the better part of a year waged an aggressive campaign in spite of the support Specter has received from a wide range of Republican leaders, including President Bush, Vice President Cheyney, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, and virtually the entire Republican establishment in Pennsylvania, conservatives and moderates alike.
		Toomey must win the rural parts of the state and generate a larger than usual turnout among his base of voters.
	politics.fandm.edu /04PAElectionSpecterToomey.htm (1278 words)

	Specter narrowly edges Toomey for GOP primary nod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toomey, a three-term House member from Allentown, had based his nearly successful challenge on the contention that Specter was too liberal for the Republican Party.
		Toomey also reminded conservative Republicans of Specter's 1987 vote against the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork and his invocation of "Scottish law'' in voting "not proven'' in the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton.
		Toomey, 42, is a Harvard University graduate who, after an early career as a financial executive, moved to Allentown to open a restaurant business with family members.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04119/307849.stm (1361 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Toomey takes on the establishment by George Will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toomey, who term-limited himself by pledging to serve only three terms and who is in his third, says, with sincere serenity, he will defeat Specter in next year's Republican primary and then will hold the seat for the party.
		Toomey notes that Specter has had primary challenges in each of his last two races and, although none of the challengers were well-funded or taken seriously, Specter lost about one-third of the vote.
		Toomey charged that in 1986 and 1987 Specter opposed President Reagan's positions ``more than any other Republican senator" and that ``Specter has opposed President Bush more than all but two Republican senators." The two, according to Toomey's staff, are Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/georgewill/gw20030515.shtml (946 words)

	The Club For Growth - Pat Toomey for Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania has been one of the brightest stars in the United States Congress over the past several years.
		Pat is precisely the kind of candidate the Club searches far and wide to find: a man who is principled, is fearless in standing up to his own party's leadership and has pit bull determination to promote our economic growth agenda of tax cuts and smaller government.
		If Pat Toomey shows a surprisingly large fundraising total, his campaign will be seen as gaining momentum and that will make it easier for him to raise the money he needs to win.
	www.clubforgrowth.org /members-only/030529.php (1275 words)

	USATODAY.com - GOP Sen. Specter challenged from right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pat Toomey, left, is trying to keep Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen specter, right, from serving a fifth term.
		Toomey is the darling of conservatives who want the president to emphasize tax cuts, free-market economics and traditional family values to energize his Republican base.
		Toomey is a committed conservative who votes against labor's positions in a state where many politicians dare not do that.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/state/pennsylvania/2004-04-04-specter-toomey_x.htm (1202 words)

	Ramesh Ponnuru on Pat Toomey & Arlen Specter on National Review Online
		Part of Toomey's message to Republicans is going to be that Specter doesn't support the Bush agenda as much as Toomey does.
		Toomey's plan is to add economic conservatives to that social-conservative base.
		Toomey's polling shows him with a double-digit lead over Specter in his congressional district —; which Toomey has represented for four years and Specter has for 22.
	www.nationalreview.com /ponnuru/ponnuru022803.asp (674 words)

	Primary History
		This will make Pat a tier one candidate going in with the support of at least 30% of the primary voters.
		Plus, Pat has many more friends than Freind and far fewer enemies, and is generally acknowledged to be one of the brightest members currently serving in Congress.
		Toomey has far more money than most of his fellow primary colleagues and his newly found loyalty to the social conservative cause should resonate with some voters in the party.
	www.politicspa.com /FEATURES/specterprimaryhistory2.htm (446 words)

	The Voice Of Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The very nature of all the charges leveled at Representative Pat Toomet, running in the upcoming Senatorial Primary election, by the Arlen Specter campaign should be enough to tip any savvy voter off that things aren't as they seem.
		Arlen's spinmeisters take a minute grain of truth, such as Toomey voting against a bill increasing funding to an abstinance program, and use it against him Radio listeners might appreciate a Paul Harvey moment here for "and that's the rest of the story" fill in.
		Pat Toomey has something that will ultimately prove more powerful, believers in a shared political philosophy.
	cadysvoiceofreason.blogspot.com (422 words)

	ARLEN SPECTER/PAT TOOMEY RACE--Tuesday, April 27, 2004 (Toomey is ardently pro-life)
		Pat Toomey knows how to get blue-collar Democrat votes, and will beat Hoeffel just about everywhere outside of Philly and its close-in suburbs (well, Hoeffel will carry a few inner-city areas, but he is so brazenly anti-gun that he will get blown away in most of the "T").
		Pat Toomey will win the general election, and given the fact that he's both more conservative and more electable than Specter, the choice is clear.
		Pat Toomey, on the other hand, can compete for those votes in spite of the fact that he is more economically conservative than Hoeffel, since at least he has something to offer those blue-collar Democrats.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1122320/posts (5038 words)

	MyDD :: Why Pat Toomey Lost
		Yet, despite Toomey attending a meetup in December, the campaign didn't embrace it.
		Toomey was not part of the establishment, and needed to reach into his strength that Specter couldn't match.
		Toomey didn't hire campaign directors that could imagine this thing was what would make their own difference, Toomey didn't get that extra few thousand of decentralized volunteers inside Pennsylvania, Toomey didn't get that extra 1-2 million dollars from national fundraising over the net that would have tripped the light fantastic.
	www.mydd.com /story/2004/4/28/32321/0325 (1578 words)

	Pa. GOP state committee hurdle looms for Toomey=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pennsylvania Rep. Pat Toomey must clear a significant obstacle in his effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in the Republican primary next April: the GOP state committee.
		Asked if a Toomey endorsement would be as damaging to the Specter campaign, the state GOP source ruled out the possibility of the committee’s backing Toomey.
		Toomey, now in his third House term, is challenging Specter from the right, and hopes his message that the incumbent is out of touch with traditional GOP values will resonate with state Republicans.
	www.thehill.com /campaign/110603_toomey.aspx (792 words)

	A Spectre Haunts Specter
		PAT TOOMEY has faced some long odds in his career.
		But Toomey has something Specter can't compete with in a GOP primary: Toomey is a conservative and he votes like one.
		In his first House race, Toomey brought blue-collar conservatives to the polls by calling his opponent "the tax man" and attacking him for supporting state tax increases.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/311uhdcp.asp (477 words)

	TOOMEY : US SENATE - About Pat Toomey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pat grew up the third of six children in a working class family.
		The experience Pat Toomey gained as a successful businessman in both large and small business — and, of course, as a husband, father and taxpayer — helped him to make an immediate impact in Washington.
		Pat lives with his wife Kris and their two children, Bridget and Patrick in Zionsville, PA. They attend St. Thomas More church in Allentown.
	www.pattoomey.org /biography.asp (240 words)

	Toomey Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Toomey's post-House career is not devoted simply to writing editorials, although he did publish a piece this week in The Wall Street Journal on the need to change the Social Security program.
		Toomey and the club, deliberately getting involved earlier in primaries to wield greater influence in GOP nomination battles, are supporting Nevada state Assemblywoman Sharron E. Angle, R-Reno, instead of two alternatives: the congressman's wife, former Nevada state Assemblywoman Dawn Gibbons, R-Reno, and the three-term Nevada Secretary of State, Dean Heller, R-Carson City.
		While Pat Toomey may no longer be in Congress, leading the charge to lower our taxes and reduce wasteful government spending, he still manages to play an important role in those issues through his work with the Club for Growth.
	www.toomeyblog.com (4213 words)

	Toomey endorsement of Santorum not Club policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Club for Growth’s president, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), made it clear yesterday that his decision to endorse Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R-Pa.) 2006 re-election bid did not reflect the Club’s position.
		Toomey took the helm of the Club earlier this year.
		Toomey said: “I would just say that it’s always helpful to a candidate to have a party united behind him, and so the extent that I can play however modest a role in helping to achieve that, I’m happy to do so.”
	www.hillnews.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Campaign/091205.html (595 words)

	Toomey's Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pat Toomey is gunning for Arlen Specter's Senate seat.
		Among that group, Toomey received 35 percent of the vote and Specter received 34 percent, with 31 percent undecided.
		Pat Toomey says he is effective, but only passed two bills in Congress.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/161owgkd.asp (589 words)

	Toomey hopes to take 'T': His chances said to rest in key area of Pa.
		Toomey is no political pushover, and Specter says he regards the three-term congressman's campaign as a serious threat.
		Toomey and Specter, interviewed for this story, claimed they intended to compete in all of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, without ceding one battleground to the other GOP hopeful.
		Toomey may be forced to "concentrate his message," including his broadcast advertising, in central and western Pennsylvania, Moore said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1022852/posts (1868 words)

	Social Security Choice - Pat Toomey
		Pat Toomey, age 43, is the President, and CEO, of the Club for Growth.
		Toomey served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, from Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district, for three terms, from January 1999 through January 2005.
		Toomey attended La Salle Academy in Providence, RI and graduated from Harvard University, cum laude, with a degree in government.
	www.socialsecuritychoice.org /bio-toomey.php (249 words)

	Campaign for Working Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pat Toomey grew up in a working class family as one of six children.
		During Pat Toomey’s six years in the House of Representatives, he has been one of the most consistent and articulate advocates for fiscal restraint, smaller government and lower taxes on working families.
		Pat Toomey has stayed true to the conservative values he campaigned on and has consistently won reelection by wide margins.
	www.cwfpac.com /spotlight_toomey_04.htm (1121 words)

	Toomey Train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Despite being outspent by 4 to 1, Toomey is surging in the latest poll, has cut Specter's lead from 15 points to 5 points in a matter of 10 days and is on track to produce a historic upset come next Tuesday.
		Toomey is a straight shooting conservative with principles.
		The key for Toomey is to make sure everybody who might vote on the 27th, know who Toomey is and get a chance to hear him out.
	toomeyinsider.blogspot.com (1420 words)

	Toomey Gets Pro-Life Groundswell in Race Against Sen. Specter
		"Toomey believes human life should be protected, opposes the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions, and supports a ban on all human cloning.
		Congressman Toomey himself says that he has no animosity against Senator Specter but notes that they disagree on a number of key issues, including the life issues.
		Toomey notes that a House-passed ban on human cloning has stalled in the Senate, due, in part, to Specter's efforts.
	www.lifenews.com /state205.html (644 words)

	Specter Claims Toomey Isn't Pro-Life on Abortion in Penn. Senate Race
		The effort is apparently an attempt to stop pro-life voters from pulling the lever for Toomey in the April Republican primary.
		At the time, Toomey said that abortion should be legal if completed in the first trimester of pregnancy.
		“Toomey is committed to the pro-life cause," said Mary Beliveau, legislative director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation.
	www.lifenews.com /state222.html (436 words)

	Pat Toomey Champions Social Security Reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vassilaros writes that Rep. Pat Toomey of Allentown, Pennsylvania has survived the first rounds of the reform debate.
		"Toomey believes you should be allowed to have a personal retirement account financed with at least 25 percent of the money you are pouring into the Social Security system," writes Vassilaros.
		While the increased benefits and ownership inherent in personal account proposals are appealing, maybe Toomey's popularity stems from his support of options and choices for individuals not available under the current system.
	www.socialsecurity.org /dailys/06-11-03.html (552 words)

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		Meet other local supporters of Pat Toomey, Republican from Pennsylvania to work towards his election for US Senate in 2004.
	toomeyforsenate.meetup.com (75 words)

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