In case you missed it, North Jersey Congressman Scott Garrett just had an absolutely brutal day in the news. Here is a brief rundown:
- After declining numerous times to clarify his anti-LGBT views first reported by POLITICO last summer, Scott Garrett tried to wipe the slate clean nine months later by calling the story a “fabrication.”
Fact Check: Both Garrett’s colleague Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) and the Bergen County GOP Chairman confirmed Garrett’s views. Question for Scott Garrett: are their accounts fabrications too?
PS – Garrett’s waffling attracted further embarrassing press.
- State Farm announced that it “won’t be donating to U.S. Representative Scott Garrett in the wake of his alleged anti-gay remarks.” State Farm joins a growing list of corporate donors who are dropping Garrett over his anti-equality, anti-LGBT views.
- A bipartisan group of elected local officials joined Garrett’s Democratic challenger, Josh Gottheimer, today to protest the ‘Garrett Tax,’ which they described as “the gap between what the district send to Washington and the funding it gets back” due to Garrett’s Tea Party agenda.
- A Republican councilman announced he was backing Gottheimer, calling Garrett a Tea Partier and arguing that “Garrett’s tax policies hurt first responders.”
“To put it simply, vulnerable House Republican Scott Garrett took serious heat from all sides today,” said Bryan Lesswing at the DCCC. “It’s clear that after months of embarrassing headlines about his anti-equality and anti-LGBT views – and losing corporate donors because of it – Scott Garrett’s vulnerability leaves him with little more than a last-ditch effort to stop the bleeding and salvage his flailing re-election chances.”