Pennsylvania Individual Race: PA-7

Incumbent:	Curt Weldon (R)
	Curt Weldon has a lifetime AFL-CIO congressional voting record of voting wrong on working family issues 58 percent of the time.
Challenger(s):	Joe Sestak (D)
	Go to Joe Sestak’s campaign website.
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JOE SESTAK, a former three-star admiral, will fi ght for Pennsylvania’s working families.

A STRONG VOICE FOR WORKING FAMILIES

JOE SESTAK IS ON OUR SIDE

Will Advocate for Our Health Care.
Joe Sestak will ensure aff ordable health care and prescription drugs for all and support universal health insurance. “National security begins at home with health care and the education of our children.” (Sestak campaign materials; USA Today, 6/1/06)

Will Fight for Us.
Joe Sestak said that in Congress he will fi ght for working families “to ensure their health, economic and educational security.” Sestak supports our freedom to form unions, will defend our prevailing wages and protect our pensions and retirement accounts. (The Hill, 8/2/06; Sestak campaign materials)

Supports Minimum Wage Increase.
Joe Sestak understands that workers are facing increased costs for housing, health care, gas and education. He supports an increase in the federal minimum wage and will refuse a pay increase “until the minimum wage is increased.” (Sestak campaign materials)

VOTE Nov. 7

How you vote is a personal decision. Whatever you decide, please vote.

 

 

 

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