dems sent me this last week:

Five things to know about Pat Toomey

Tea party favorite Pat Toomey has stood with Wall Street his entire career -- as a derivatives trader, as a congressman, and as head of the radical Club for Growth. And Pat Toomey's record and his actions make it clear that he'll only continue his special-interest agenda in the Senate.

We've put together five facts about Pat Toomey that all Pennsylvanians should see before they make their decision this November. Can you help by spreading these far and wide?

Five facts you should know about Pat Toomey:

1) Even as the BP oil crisis raged on, he advocated for expanding offshore drilling -- and in the past has said that regulating oil companies "borders on the criminal."

2) He voted to allow drilling in the Great Lakes, even though the amount of oil the BP oil spill crisis has leaked into the Gulf would contaminate every drop of Lake Erie, a source of drinking water for millions.

3) He is running a campaign funded by special interests. He's pulled in $851,489 from Wall Street and $54,950 in donations from the oil and gas industries -- including the largest donation that Halliburton's PAC made in May.

4) Under his watch, the Club for Growth spent about $10 million on a publicity campaign to privatize Social Security; Toomey lamented that it was a "pity" that Bush's proposed privatization "couldn't be implemented sooner."

5) After making a fortune trading derivatives on Wall Street, he wrote legislation repealing key laws that kept banks and investment firms separate -- spurring massive deregulation that led to the economic crash.