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New reporting from Bloomberg highlights the clear choice in PA-08, between Matt Cartwright who’s “survived Northeast Pennsylvania’s changing politics thanks to a distinct brand and deep foundations,” and Rob Bresnahan the “multi-millionaire who sold out local workers.”
Bresnahan “bristles at the suggestion he was handed success,” proudly stating that “everything in [his] life has been a battle to obtain.” Someone should have told him that before he decided to run for office, when he bragged about starting life “on third base.” He has a net worth estimated to be as high as $69 million.
Bresnahan is now pretending to be blue-collar, but consistently fails to mention how he sold ownership and control of his family business to private equity investors.
Because of Bresnahan, Kuharchik is no longer a family business. He answers to the same type of owners that skimped on necessary maintenance and laid off IBEW workers for years in Pennsylvania.
Bloomberg: “[Local Labor] pointed to other local businesses that have been depleted by private equity firms. ‘He had this great opportunity,’ but sold it to ‘the chop shops of the business world,’ said a statement from Maurice Cobb, secretary-treasurer of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO.”
DCCC Spokesperson Aidan Johnson:
“Rob Bresnahan stopped being a union, family business owner the day he took a fat paycheck and gave private equity the reins. He answers to Wall Street fund managers now – it’s no wonder they’re backing his campaign. Northeastern Pennsylvanians can tell that Bresnahan is a silver spoon phony who won’t fight for them, and they’re not falling for his act.”
Read the full Bloomberg Government article here. |
