https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/ ... -hard-timeBrat to Inmates: ‘You Think You’re Having a Hard Time...
At a listening session with inmates recovering from substance abuse this week, Rep. Dave Brat pivoted the conversation to his own re-election race.
“You think you’re having a hard time — I’ve got $5 million worth of negative ads coming at me,” the Virginia Republican said. “How do you think I’m feeling? Nothing’s easy. For anybody.”
“You think I’m a congressman, ‘Oh, life’s easy, this guy’s off having steaks every day.’” he went on. “Baloney. I’ve got a daughter, she’s got to deal with that crap on TV every day.”
“So it’s tough,” Brat continued. “No one out there’s got some easy life. Right?”
[This guy's a real chip off the Trump block...he's talking to a group of prison inmates dealing with opiate addiction and decides that would be a great occasion to whine about how tough he's got it because of some negative campaign ads aimed at him...]
The gaffe comes as Republicans across the country look to cast their action on opioid addiction as a key legislative achievement before the midterms. Brat’s opponent, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, called his remarks “an affront to every person in recovery and the Virginians who die daily due to their addiction.”
Spanberger also pointed to Brat’s vote for the American Health Care Act, which would have hampered states’ ability to respond to public health crises like the opioid epidemic, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Brat is the Tea Party nudnik who upset then House Majority Leader Eric Kantor in a GOP primary in 2014...
But now he's in a tight race that's currently rated a toss up:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epoll ... -6528.html
