Talk:Joseph A. Sestak

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[edit] Stuff moved from article pending citation

Where did the following stuff come from? It can't go back into the article without sources. Hornblende 16:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Sestak is reportedly a moderate on domestic issues.

"I feel that the security of our nation and of our children is being eroded," Sestak said. "I'm not talking just about our defense security...the tragic misadventure in Iraq... but also about our economy, our tax...and spending policies, our policies on health and education... I feel Curt Weldon has been voting the wrong way on all." [citation needed]

National Defense and Homeland Security

The United States is to be second to none in its ability to wage and win our nation’s wars…and therefore deter them. But we are in a new era, one where terrorism can strike suddenly from a lone individual here at home, or at our interests abroad. We can no longer look at our security as “wanting our wars fought overseas”…we must view this entire globe, including our homeland, as one security area. We must “know” what the adversary/terrorist will do – not what he has done – and this means a shift of resources into intelligence, as well as space satellites and capabilities on the world-wide network, that legally can give us advance indications of a terrorist or other attack in order to prevent it;

Forging a true “national security union” among the balkanized federal agencies that fail to work together in concert because authority is diluted and there is limited recognition that the first threat are terrorist individuals not nations.

Environment We are stewards of this earth for our children and children’s children… but we are not protecting this gift for them. Above all, we must address the global threat that human-generated climate change poses; it is a major disaster for the world, where ecological subsystems’ damage may already be irreversible. I therefore support greenhouse limits. I also want the federal government to champion higher standards for clean air and clean water; this should not be left to individual states which would result in less comprehensive standards.

Choice Regardless of my religious beliefs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade that – as a nation – the United States should offer every woman the right to have a legal and safe abortion, if that is her choice. I support that decision. Stem Cell Research Stem cell research may mean that there is a potential cure for over 3,000 U.S. citizens who die each day from diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, and stroke, as well as serving as replacements for cells or tissues obliterated by radiation and chemotherapy in cancer patients. I support federal government promotion and funding of this research.

Healthcare Our collective responsibility is to ensure a health care system which covers all of us, uses competition and performance standards to discipline costs, shares responsibility for paying health insurance between individuals and society, and which rewards care givers for the quality, not quantity, of care. Our nation’s health security is critical for the productivity, cost avoidance, and strength of citizenship needed to ensure America’s future national security.

The Medicare Drug Benefit recently enacted by Congress is exactly the wrong approach to this issue. It is complex and its execution is unprepared and unfair. It caps benefits at $2,250 and does not allow senior supplemental insurance to count toward “out-of-pocket” expenses until a “catastrophic” drug level of $5,100 is reached. This provides firms a legitimate reason to stop the insurance of their former retirees since it cannot be used to pay expenses! This must be changed. Above all, we need a more comprehensive approach to health security to address our health erosion exemplified above.

National Defense and Homeland Security

The United States is to be second to none in its ability to wage and win our nation’s wars…and therefore deter them. But we are in a new era, one where terrorism can strike suddenly from a lone individual here at home, or at our interests abroad. We can no longer look at our security as “wanting our wars fought overseas”…we must view this entire globe, including our homeland, as one security area – and our policies and resources must change to address this new security situation. Such wars will not be won simply by more ships, planes and tanks that dominate the seas, land or sky.

Environment

We are stewards of this earth for our children and children’s children… but we are not protecting this gift for them. Above all, we must address the global threat that human-generated climate change poses; it is a major disaster for the world, where ecological subsystems’ damage may already be irreversible. I therefore support greenhouse limits. I also want the federal government to champion higher standards for clean air and clean water; this should not be left to individual states which would result in less comprehensive standards. Choice

Regardless of my religious beliefs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade that – as a nation – the United States should offer every woman the right to have a legal and safe abortion, if that is her choice. I support that decision. Stem Cell Research

Stem cell research may mean that there is a potential cure for over 3,000 U.S. citizens who die each day from diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, and stroke, as well as serving as replacements for cells or tissues obliterated by radiation and chemotherapy in cancer patients. I support federal government promotion and funding of this research.

[edit] Endorsement

His campaign has been endorsed by a former National Security Advisor, a former National Security expert, and a 9/11 Commissioner/former US Deputy Attorney General.

Other endorsers include:
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA PAC
FORMER SENATOR MAX CLELAND
SENATOR JOHN KERRY
USW LOCAL 10-1

[edit] Contribuations


Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright donated $500.

Former White House chief of staff John Podesta gave $300.

Former CIA director John Deutch gave $500.

Former Navy secretary John Dalton gave $500.

Former national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger gave $1,000.

Former national security adviser Anthony Lake gave $500.

U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D., N.Y.) gave the legal maximum of $2,500.

Richard A. Clarke, who was a top counterterrorism adviser to several presidents, gave $2,100.

Jimmy Buffett, the singer who made "Margaritaville" famous, donated $2,100 from his base of operations in Los Angeles.



In total, Sestak raised $427,264 from Jan. 1 to March 31.
As of May 2006, contribuations surpassed $500,000

[edit] More stuff that ought to be moved

Thanks to whoever moved all the above PR stuff from the article. But we still have a bunch of negative PR stuff in there. There are almost zero citations in the article, which is a must when there are sentences like: "According to an anonymous former U.S. Navy officer...." Almost half the article needs to be moved into the talk page here, unless there are reputable sources, etc. -- Sholom 17:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

I fact checked his basic Navy biography with the one held by the U.S. Naval Historical Center and added references. The issue about command climate is not dealt with in the official bio. In my opinion, it is all hearsay coming from journalistic sources and should be removed.Johnfmh 22:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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