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Line 16: − − ==Cover up== − Sestak admitted he had been offered a job by the Obama administration if he were to withdrawal from the primary against incumbent U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Sestak turned the alleged job down, but has declined to reveal who in the White House made the apparent offer. Reporters first started pressing [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Robert Gibbs]] on February 23 and had five exchanges with him by mid-March. On March 16, Gibbs finally provided the White House Press Corp with somewhat of an answer. − {{cquote|I'm told that whatever conversations have been had are not problematic. I think Congressman Sestak has discussed that this is -- whatever happened is in the past, and he's focused on his primary election.<ref name=coverup/>}}
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The American Spectator reported on the Jobsgate [[scandal]], and how Sestak may be committing "misprision of a [[felony]]" simply by not reporting a federal [[crime]] to the proper authorities.
The American Spectator reported on the Jobsgate [[scandal]], and how Sestak may be committing "misprision of a [[felony]]" simply by not reporting a federal [[crime]] to the proper authorities.
{{cquote|Jobsgate, as we call it here, refers to the emphatic charge of Congressman Joe Sestak, the Pennsylvania Democrat challenging Senator Arlen Specter for renomination, that someone (unnamed) in the Obama White House offered him a job if he would withdraw his candidacy. [...] Senator Arlen Specter, on Friday, said that making this offer, as Sestak claims was done, is a federal crime. And that Sestak may be committing "misprision of a felony" simply by not reporting a federal crime to the proper authorities.<ref name=stonewall/>}}
{{cquote|Jobsgate, as we call it here, refers to the emphatic charge of Congressman Joe Sestak, the Pennsylvania Democrat challenging Senator Arlen Specter for renomination, that someone (unnamed) in the Obama White House offered him a job if he would withdraw his candidacy. [...] Senator Arlen Specter, on Friday, said that making this offer, as Sestak claims was done, is a federal crime. And that Sestak may be committing "misprision of a felony" simply by not reporting a federal crime to the proper authorities.<ref name=stonewall/>}}
==Cover up==
Sestak admitted he had been offered a job by the Obama administration if he were to withdrawal from the primary against incumbent U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Sestak turned the alleged job down, but has declined to reveal who in the White House made the apparent offer. Reporters first started pressing [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Robert Gibbs]] on February 23 and had five exchanges with him by mid-March. On March 16, Gibbs finally provided the White House Press Corp with somewhat of an answer.
{{cquote|I'm told that whatever conversations have been had are not problematic. I think Congressman Sestak has discussed that this is -- whatever happened is in the past, and he's focused on his primary election.<ref name=coverup/>}}
==Andrew Romanoff's Job Offer==
==Andrew Romanoff's Job Offer==
In a Sept. 11, 2009 email, Romanoff listed three jobs that were made available; two of them were with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the other was the position of director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
In a Sept. 11, 2009 email, Romanoff listed three jobs that were made available; two of them were with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the other was the position of director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
==References==
==References==