Paul Kiel April 6, 2006, 4:15 PM

He just gets classier and classier.

Yesterday, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) suggested that his opponent, Joe Sestak, was wrong to keep his daughter in a Washington, D.C. hospital during her cancer treatment - he should have brought her to a hospital in Pennsylvania, he said.

After a firestorm of criticism, Weldon’s campaign chairman, Michael V. Puppio Jr., offered an explanation today… Joe Sestak tricked Weldon into talking about it:

But Puppio insisted that Weldon did not intend to make an issue of where Alexandra Sestak was treated.

“Any discussion of Mr. Sestak’s daughter was initiated by the Sestak campaign,” Puppio said.

Read the article - see how Weldon was so craftily and despicably lured in to seeming like a jerk.

Curt Weldon