Dan Cirucci: Another Specter Flip-Flop: Ideological Judges

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Another Specter Flip-Flop: Ideological Judges

Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak’s race to the left continues! And of course that means, another hypocritical switch for Arlen Specter.
Monday, in an appearance at the Pennsylvania Press Club, Specter said President Obama should consider ideology when picking retiring Justice John Paul Stevens’ replacement. The nominee, he said, needs to “compete with Justice Scalia on the ideological battlefield,” (PoliticsPA.com, 04 19 10).
But in 2004 and 2005, then-Republican Arlen Specter sang a very different tune, declaring on CBS’ Face the Nation: “The fact is that I have supported all of President Bush’s nominees in committee and on the floor. I have never applied a litmus test,” (Toledo Blade, 11/07/04).
Then in October 2005 Specter said: “I don't believe that you ought to make a decision on a Supreme Court nominee based on a litmus test. I'm pro-choice, but I voted for Justice Scalia, I voted for Chief Justice Rehnquist although he voted against Roe versus Wade. I think that takes much too narrow a view. The jurisprudence is important and the jurisprudence is complicated.” (ABC News, 10/09/05)
“As Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak ratchet up their race to the left, Arlen Specter is abandoning the principles and policies he claimed to believe in before he switched political parties,” said Toomey Communications Director Nachama Soloveichik. “It is no surprise that Pennsylvanians all across the Commonwealth are rejecting Specter’s political opportunism in favor of Pat Toomey’s principled fiscal responsibility and commitment to hardworking families.”

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Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

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A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

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