{"id":25110,"date":"2015-03-27T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25110"},"modified":"2015-03-27T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:41:12","slug":"letter-inspired-by-sestaks-walk-across-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25110","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Inspired by Sestak&#8217;s walk across Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To the Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Letters1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1076104\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Letters1.jpg\" \/><\/a>I am writing to share how inspired I have been by Admiral Joe Sestak\u2019s 422 mile walk across Pennsylvania (ending on Saturday), after announcing his candidacy for Senate (running against Pat Toomey.) He truly wants to \u201cwalk in the shoes\u201d of all Pennsylvanians, and he\u2019s been meeting with people of all walks of life, outlining his concerns and truly listening.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of attitude and energy that will make him an exceptional Senator. Additionally, Admiral Sestak has the most impressive credentials: a Pennsylvanian by birth, he graduated 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in his class from the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a PhD from Harvard in Political Economy and Government between tours of duty. In his 31 years of service with the US Navy, he held a broad range of important positions of incredible responsibility, among them: Political-Military Analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of Defense Policy on the National Security Council, the first Director of the Navy\u2019s anti-terrorism unit \u201cDeep Blue\u201d after 9\/11, Commander of an aircraft carrier battle group of 30 U.S. and allied ships, 100 aircraft and 15,000 sailors, Marines, aviators and SEALs during combat operations in Afghanistan. He was also named most productive member in his Congressional class by the Majority leader when he represented Pennsylvania\u2019s 7<sup>th<\/sup> District.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have been sorely disappointed by many of Senator Toomey\u2019s votes, in particular, his three filibusters against the Paycheck Fairness Act and also Transportation bills, which would provide needed funding for highways and transit projects. However, for me, the last straw was Pat Toomey\u2019s signature on the Tom Cotton Senate letter to Iran. At that point, I realized he did not represent me, nor, I suspect, most Pennsylvanians. I was outraged.<\/p>\n<p>I feel we are incredibly fortunate to have a highly intelligent, experienced statesman, Admiral Joe Sestak, as a quality Senatorial candidate who WILL represent all Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Pamela Smyth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Coatesville<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor, I am writing to share how inspired I have been by Admiral Joe Sestak\u2019s 422 mile walk across Pennsylvania (ending on Saturday), after announcing his candidacy for Senate (running against Pat Toomey.) He truly wants to \u201cwalk in the shoes\u201d of all Pennsylvanians, and he\u2019s been meeting with people of all walks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[6909,6860,2153],"class_list":["post-25110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-election-2016","tag-joe-sestak","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}