| This weekend, Governor Josh Shapiro and Bob Brooks rallied in Emmaus to call out Republican Congressman Ryan Mackenzie for bending the knee to his D.C. party bosses and making life more expensive.
Governor Shapiro said in part:
“ I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of the sycophants… Ryan Mackenzie is a profoundly and pathetically weak human being who can’t stand up to this president. But you know who will stand up to him? Bob Brooks will stand up to him.
“ Bob Brooks is a guy who, with his working class background, understands what real people are dealing with, isn’t afraid of anybody, and he can bring people together to get stuff done.”
REMINDER: DC Republicans have spent over $1 million attacking Bob because they know he will beat Mackenzie in November.
In case you missed it…
- Gov. Josh Shapiro, along with leaders from the Working Families Party, made one final push on Sunday to get Bob Brooks, a retired 20-year fire fighter and union leader… ready for November’s general election against [Republican] US House Rep. Ryan Mackenzie.
- “Ryan Mackenzie is a profoundly and pathetically weak human being who can’t stand up to this president. But you know who will stand up to him? Bob Brooks will stand up to him,” [Shapiro told Brooks supporters in Emmaus on Sunday.]
- He added: “ Bob Brooks is a guy who, with his working class background, understands what real people are dealing with, isn’t afraid of anybody, and he can bring people together to get stuff done.”
- In the final days of the campaign, [Lead] Left PAC, a Republican-linked super PAC, has poured over $1 million into Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional Primary race with the hopes of stopping Brooks’ campaign in its tracks.
- [Lead] Left PAC was created at the end of April and is incorporated out of a Staples in Tallahassee, Florida, according to the Federal Election Commission, and Punchbowl News reported that the political action committee’s website is connected to WinRed, a Republican political fundraising platform.
- Brooks has assembled a broad coalition of support for his primary race with endorsements from Shapiro, US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and more than a dozen labor unions and progressive organizations.
- “ I think they’re afraid of a working-class person,” Brooks said of Republicans’ decision to spend against him in the primary. “They don’t want to see a working-class guy run against their boy in the general.”
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