Toomey’s year in Hong Kong?

[Bravo Zulu]

"We’d been among the curious about what Pat Toomey was up to during 1991, the year he spent working in Hong Kong.

On Friday, Greg Sargeant published this nugget in the Washington Post: he did research on capital market formation in southeast Asia for a company owned by the billionaire Chan brothers.

And Sargeant gave us one very juicy tidbit about one of the Chans:

Ronnie Chan, was a former Enron director who settled a massive $168 million lawsuit brought against the company by shareholders. In addition to his link to Enron, Chan has repeatedly scoffed at American hopes for a more democratized China.

According to Sargeant’s story, Pat’s campaign manager, Mark Harris, “laughed off” the suggestion that Pat might now be accused “of helping build up a Chan-owned company” and/or linked “to today’s fears of Chinese currency manipulation.” Harris thinks folks who oppose Toomey “must be getting pretty desperate to dig up what Pat did twenty years ago.”

That’s the kind of thing Harris is expected to say to the Washington Post. But we suspect Harris wasn’t laughing so much after he hung up the phone. He knows what Pat did 20 years ago is not only relevant to this U.S. Senate race, but also potentially very damaging to Pat’s self-portrait as the regular guy looking out for the interests of average working Pennsylvanians.

What if it turns out that Pat is really more interested in the success of the average Chinese billionaire?"

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[HopeHoops]

1. Toomey is almost as big of a fucking scumbag as Santorum. Maybe we can send him to home to DC.

We sent Santorum home to Virginia. I have no idea how people who got fucked so hard by Santorum could even CONSIDER voting for Toomey. I didn't think we had that many idiots in PA.