Questions Mount On Claim Of Illegal White House Job Offer

Voters may never know what job Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak was offered in exchange for dropping out of the primary he just won.

Sestak, a two-term congressman from the Philadelphia suburbs, made the Sunday talk show rounds and stuck to the same answer he gave The Washington Examiner when asked what job, if any, the Obama administration had waved in front of him to stop him from challenging incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, the Republican-turned-Democrat who lost Tuesday's primary.

On NBC's "Meet the Press," there was this exchange:

Host David Gregory: "Yes or no. Straightforward question. Were you offered a job and what was the job?"

Sestak: "I was offered a job. I answered that."

Gregory: "You said no, you wouldn't take the job. Was it the Secretary of the Navy job?

Sestak: "Anything that goes beyond that is for others to talk about."

By "others" Sestak meant White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who was not much help either.

Gibbs was grilled about the job offer on CBS's "Face the Nation" and gave an equally unhelpful answer.

Host Bob Schieffer asked Gibbs "what post he was offered," and Gibbs would only say, "lawyers in the White House and others have looked into conversations that were had with Congressman Sestak and nothing inappropriate happened."

Here's more from the Washington Examiner