Well I survived another trip around the sun. Being 43 is wild. At no point, even when I was half dead, did I wake up and realize I felt old or something. No, instead I just woke up one day and was the age of the people who were always just older than me. Imagine that. I didn’t get here like a lot of my friends and family, but I reached real middle age.
I’m thankful for improved health. My physical health is much better than it was even before my near brush with death. The mental burnout that gripped me from the lockdown period on has largely dissipated as my physical health healed. I’m grateful to all of doctors, nurses, and techs who took care of me. Things are looking up.
Thank you all for reading. As I grow older, I do find the world around me changing far more than me. The world is not static, no matter how static your values are. You get the same me here. But the world we live in changes every day. I’ll try to keep giving you my perspective on those changes, unvarnished. Thanks again for coming along.
I’ve spent most of this election cycle telling you who I’m not going to vote for in our Congressional race. There’s a reason for that- I think one of the candidates is genuinely a bad human being, unworthy of anyone’s vote, and potentially another Fetterman. There is a second candidate who is somewhere between being a true Republican and being someone who maybe lacks a true set of core values, based on their life decisions. Under no circumstances will I ever vote for Bob Brooks to be anything, he is that awful in general. If Ryan Crosswell is nominated, I’ll vote for him, but I do think remaining a Republican after January 6th and working for a union busting law firm is negative. I will vote for him if nominated though, as he’s better than Mackenzie.
That left two candidates, and while I was decided very early, I will say they’re both fine. I would be enthusiastic about voting for Carol Obando-Derstine if she were nominated for Congress. She has a wonderful life story, an impressive educational background, and previously served in Senator Casey’s office. She’s a solid Democrat and we’d all be proud if she represented us. She is new to running for office and I think this race has been difficult for her. Even so, I expect her to get a healthy number of votes next week and be a factor in the race. A solid majority of our primary electorate are women, and they will consider a qualified woman candidate.
I’m going to vote for Lamont McClure though. I was there pretty early and I haven’t really changed my mind on it. There are two reasons, and only two reasons for my vote, and I’m going to lay them out as clearly as possible here.
Lamont is where I am on policy and did what he said he’d do as Executive. When he ran for Executive in 2017, he said he would do three things- not raise taxes, keep Gracedale County owned, and preserve Open Space. He did those three things. There are critics of his terms as Executive, as there should be, and most of them are mad that he didn’t do other things that they wanted him to do. He did the things he ran on though. He’s a political moderate that fits right in the mainstream Democratic Party positions on core issues like guns, reproductive rights, civil rights, labor rights, and the environment. This is where I believe the country needs to be right now. I really don’t want to make the government a Petri dish for far left ideas and to remake the world in a more (white) progressive populist vision. That will not improve our world.
Lamont won two comfortable general elections in the most swing county in the district. In theory, Ryan Crosswell is a strong general election candidate. I mean, he literally was a Republican until like a year ago, so how can they call him a leftist? They will call him a carpetbagger though, they will point to the dishonesty in his story for why he’s running, and they’ll make his political change of heart into an argument that he lacks a political core or convictions. Brooks claims he’s a strong general election candidate, but the man is a literal deadbeat and buffoon. Republicans will convince enough voters to not vote for him and hang onto the district. Nobody likes someone who takes from their own family. Furthermore I don’t see him stopping the deterioration of the Democratic share of the vote in Allentown, let alone turning out our suburban, college educated and mostly female base. Carol has never ran before, and while I think she’d appeal more to our base than an ignoramus like Brooks, she’s an unknown there. McClure was elected twice as Northampton County Executive and I believe three times in what was a very competitive county council seat. We pretty much know what Republicans are going to say about him, and the most swing voting county already has passed judgment on that. His critics will point out his poor fundraising in this primary, and look, I don’t love that. Ryan Mackenzie was a poor fundraiser two years ago in his primary too. Once you’re the nominee of either party in this district, you raise a lot of money. Outside spending groups come in to defend you. Leadership PACS from the Hill start funneling money your way. Any of these four will have money in the general election. That shouldn’t even be anyone’s concern.
For these two reasons, I’m voting for McClure. As I said, I’m fine with Carol if she’s the nominee, and I’ll vote for Crosswell, I think he’d be an improvement. Bob Brooks would just be a continuation of the decay of our politics, another step down for the quality of our representation and our politics. I will not defend the indefensible, nor do I think most will by the time the Fall comes around. So I’m voting for McClure. I think if he’s our nominee, we’ll be winning this seat.
So a super pac called Lead Left popped up and started running an ad that calls out Crooksy and Ryan Crosswell. They point out that the union that Crooksy leads, the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association, has backed anti-choice, election denying candidates. This is simply true. Crooksy only believes in Democrats when it’s useful for him. Of course he’s crying foul though, because no one can hold Bob “Crooksy” Brooks accountable, not even our courts.
The reason Crooksy thinks you should ignore the ad? It’s “A MAGA super PAC.” Interesting theory. Lead Left is the name of the super PAC, and they indeed did form recently. Because they formed on April 24th, they have not yet had to do any campaign finance filings. There is literally no way to know if their donors are Democrats or Republicans. Of course, folks are buying into Crooksy’s spin and printing his story. But even the source of the original theory has doubts on it. There are several reasons to believe Bob “Crooksy” Brooks is making up the MAGA spin:
No one knows who the donors are. They don’t have to report yet.
The bank being used to pay for the spots, Amalgamated Bank, is used by Democratic Groups and unions.
Admittedly, dark money groups make people uncomfortable. I think we all understand that. Is it possible that Republicans decided to come attack the two guys with the most shady cash of their own to muddy them up early with the Democratic base? Possible. There’s not a shred of proof for it though, and it was probably inappropriate for reporters to print a theory. It would seem more likely though that the pac using a liberal bank and a media firm that probably has some ties to a Democratic firm is being funded by Democrats. There are people who have issues with Bob and the Governor within our party and would like to embarrass them. It seems more likely than anything that there are Democrats who know that Crooksy is a deeply flawed, damaged candidate, and Crosswell is a lifelong Republican (including after January 6th), and don’t want us to nominate a damaged nominee that will lose to Mackenzie (at least in Crooksy’s case). Seems a lot more likely than some wild conspiracy theory that Republicans are spending five hundred thousand dollars because they’re afraid of a deadbeat.
Crooksy is afraid. A very, very highly placed source said that when the DCCC polled this race last, McClure had the lead. Suddenly they produced a poll from the Progressive Caucus showing Crooksy ahead (probably a push poll). Then he got put on Red-to-Blue. And *his* dark money super pac is spending over a million dollars to boost him. All of this, and he’s crying about dark money? Give. Me. A. Break.
Two decade deadbeat Bob “Crooksy” Brooks is mad- big mad. After having the DCCC put their thumb on the scale this week to try and shove him down the Lehigh Valley’s throat, after having Bernie Sanders call in favors to his friends in labor to stop donations and endorsements for his opponents, after having the Governor try and “convince” everyone to back him, Deadbeat Bob is mad that someone is coming in to spend money against him. I guess he not only thought that no one would care that he’s a deadbeat, a gun and religious zealot, indifferent to political violence, hates Barack Obama, and well, is a racist. He figured that everyone would behave like the PA Dems and ignore his ethics problems. I know Bob is dumb, but this is staggeringly narcissistic. Not everyone is SEIU.
Crooksy is first out with a statement (even before Crosswell, who was also hit in the ad), and damn it’s a doozy. I’ll post it below. Deadbeat Bob alleges the PAC that is supporting McClure is a MAGA pac, without any actual evidence (they have no online filings yet). He also calls on McClure to denounce the “MAGA pac” immediately. This is idiotic of course, but what did we expect from Crooksy? First off, McClure has said in the past that he opposes the Citizens United ruling that made all of these pacs a thing, so we know how he feels about it from that. Second, why would MAGA donors prefer a twice elected County Executive from the swing county in the district over a guy who tried to quit claim his property away to avoid paying a court ordered verdict? Of course they’d rather run against Deadbeat Bob. But third, and this is probably most important- once again Bob “Crooksy” Brooks is being a hypocrite, crying about dark money when his campaign is being funded in part by a super pac, Stronger Together PA. Hypocrite Bob thinks everything should be handed to him, but if anyone cries foul, they need to be denounced. Of course, he is the kind of guy that hated Colin Kaepernick because he protested police brutality, so what did we expect from him?
Anyway, Bob’s campaign has worked really hard to put out their hypocritical statement and run a campaign that was honestly dishonest- they wanted you to believe the lie that this man is a good and decent family man, and solid Democrat. I suppose since their whole campaign was a lie and a mistake, I’ll print their latest hypocritical bullshit here for you, the readers, to laugh at. Maybe some Harrisburg cronies will try to intimidate me again after this one too. Bring it on boys and girls, I’ll definitely take a lecture from people who support a deadbeat.
Look, I know I said he’s stupid, but Bob “Crooksy” Brooks makes sure to prove it, over and over again. This time is pretty funny. Any halfway normal candidate who is asked about his union endorsing Republicans in the past would have stopped with the “I’m just one vote out of eleven” part and left it there. Deadbeat Bob had to add in that Governor Josh Shapiro asked him to endorse Stacy Garrity for State Treasurer, who now is ironically his opponent for Governor. Crooksy really might be the dumbest SOB in politics.
This is what Josh Shapiro gets for getting this imbecile to run. Shapiro once famously was a part of a backroom deal to make Republican Dennis O’Brien the Speaker of the PA House after the Democrats had won the House 102-101, and in exchange they made up the job of “Deputy Speaker” for him. Now to be fair, the Democratic leader at the time couldn’t hold the whole caucus, so it’s fine, but they should have found a Democrat for the job instead. It’s definitely a concerning pattern, to say the least.
This is also a window into how Bob “Crooksy” Brooks thinks. This was an easy question to deflect for anyone with a functioning brain, but in his reptile brain he felt the need to push the blame to someone else. Deadbeat Bob could have taken the high road and said “we back who we think is best for our members,” or he could have said the part he said about being just one vote, or he could have done this- deflect and make it someone else’s fault. So he literally made a fool of his number one backer, the guy who is the only reason anyone cares who Bob is. The guy is not loyal to anyone. He threw the Governor under the bus to look better, he flipped his endorsement on Lamont McClure, he stiffed his ex-mother-in-law out of money and blames everyone else for that too. Deadbeat Bob is out for Deadbeat Bob. That’s all he’s ever been for, it’s literally how he got his current gig as Fire Fighters President. He’s the kind of “friend” you’ll be found dead if he’s in the fox hole with you, and somehow it’ll be your fault. He’s another John Fetterman.
In 2022, I opposed John Fetterman in the primary, even after it was obvious he would win. Even in the general election, it took me until 4pm on Election Day to drop my ballot off at a ballot box, because I really didn’t want to vote for the guy. His history of chasing a Black jogger with a shot gun, supporting Bernie Sanders, and his debate performances really turned me off to the guy. I feel vindicated by how awful he’s been. He was lucky though. Dr. Oz won the GOP nomination despite not living in the state, then decided to talk about incest and say that local governments deserve a role in abortion decisions. Now we’re stuck with this idiot.
So what’s the common ground here, besides being awful human beings that shouldn’t be trusted with leadership in a society? Fight Agency, their media consultants. It’s worth noting that they’re also Ruben Gallego’s team, and he’s having some issues right now. They’re good at what they do, but man do they know how to pick ’em. Of course, beyond Fetterman being a scumbag, he’s also been a huge disappointment to most Democrats as Senator. Why should anyone not believe Platner and Deadbeat Bob will be the same? They clearly don’t *believe* in liberal values in any meaningful way, based on their actions. Why wouldn’t they end up just as bad as Fetterman, under the best case scenario? Don’t be fooled here. These guys aren’t good or decent people, let alone solid Democrats. It’s all a fraud, a scam, a lie. Reject it.
Far from me to ever agree with the Democratic Socialists, sometimes you kind of have to agree with someone when they’re right. If a rich guy wants to build luxury apartments and is following all zoning and planning laws in the community, they should be able to do that. This is why we have laws and really the success or failure should be on them- if people want the properties they’re selling, they’ll fill them. If they don’t, they’ll fail, and you know, capitalism or something. Obviously it’s in a community’s interest to have some high income people live in their community, within reason, and so I got giving them some public help when our community’s were down. The state and local governments subsidizing development in Center City Allentown 15 years ago, or in Bethlehem in the 90’s and 2000’s, or even in Easton up until five to ten years ago made some sense. That shouldn’t become a hard and fast policy though. Local leaders don’t need to subsidize these guys. It’s not like they’re willing to share in the profits with the community- that’s literally what they’re asking to do when asking for tax credits and RACP grants. We subsidize their profits. Again, that might make sense in areas that are really down. That’s not the Lehigh Valley in 2026.
When I graduated high school, you could rent in Easton for under a thousand dollars a month. Now you’re spending an easy two grand for anything kind of acceptable. That’s because the Easton area is desirable. Now yes, this proposal in front of County Council is technically in Wilson, but that is essentially a part of the Easton area. Rents don’t need to be driven any further up, they need to be driven down. If a developer comes forward and wants to build *low* income housing in the Easton area, the local governments can and should consider helping with that. It’s needed right now. High income housing? We have enough. Really, we don’t need more.
Now, of course I have to find a few problems with the DSA position above. Bernie already pointed out that they just are opposed to the current deal, not the project inherently. They also magically left the Republican member of council off, as one kind of expects from a group that only seems to protest Democrats. Magically they also left two Democrats off, ostensibly because they probably think they’re a “no” vote anyway, but what the hell here? It feels… selective. I don’t care though, they’re right on this and it’s time for local government to stop asking the public to fund big pay days for guys who already have a lot of money.
There was a time, a time not so long ago, in which the entire American electorate were white men. It’s not an exaggeration, and maybe only a tiny embellishment- Only around 95 years ago, Jim Crow laws were still on the books and women weren’t allowed to vote. It would be over 30 years after that until de-segregation really began, over 35 years until the first Civil Rights legislation passed, and 45 years until LBJ pushed through the last of his Civil Rights legislation. Even after 1965, America’s electorate remained majority male and overwhelmingly white for a while. In 1988 the electorate was 85% white. Even in 2024 the electorate is 71% white, and that plays out a lot more drastically than you’d think. Outside of the 148 majority-minority districts, the electorate is probably still 80-85% white nationally. Democrats hold 122 of their 212 seats in those majority-minority districts.
The truth is that Democrats were benefitting from the Voting Rights Act and it’s future interpretations, which forced the creation of majority-minority seats, especially Black seats, to improve representation. If only 29% of the 2024 electorate was non-white, and we assume that’s fairly standard, one could say that just based on math that only around 126 seats should have been majority-minority, or about 22 less than exist in the current House. Given that Democrats were winning 82% of these seats, Democrats were probably winning an extra 18 seats simply because these seats existed. So under the current House math, if we adjusted the number of majority-minority districts down by 22 and made those districts majority white (where Democrats win 31% of seats, almost all of which are in the north and West), Democrats would lose a net of 11 seats. They would have 201 seats, and probably not be in a position to take the House back in 2026, given the success of today’s partisan gerrymanders.
Of course, we have to be realistic about yesterday’s ruling and the direction the courts have been moving since at least Roberts took over, if not frankly earlier. Mandatory majority-minority districts are on their way to extinction, as even just today Louisiana delayed their primaries so they can re-district. Republican states, especially in the South, will begin dividing up deeply blue areas and putting them into seats where they can never win, and you will see majority-minority seats in places like Memphis, New Orleans, and Charlotte begin being cut to pieces, as happened in Nashville already, and states like Mississippi and Alabama drawing Democrats down to one or no seats they should ever win in the House. The reality is that it won’t just be a reduction from 148 to 126 majority-minority seats, but likely much more. The reality is that you should assume they will cut as many seats as you can imagine from a block of seats that they do not win, particularly with no threat of the court stopping them.
Here’s the thing though- it won’t just be Republicans in the South doing this. Democrats are not going to simply surrender and give up the political fight for good, and accept being a 180 seat minority caucus for eternity. So what will they do to fight back? The only thing they’ll think they can do strategically. Whereas you have seats like Dwight Evans in Philadelphia’s PA-3 that are majority-minority and 90% Democratic, they are just one seat. Why leave NJ-10 as one blue seat when you can carve it up and combine it up with NJ-11, NJ-7, and probably a couple more, and have five seats the GOP can’t even win on their best year? Democrats in Blue states will start carving up safe majority-minority seats to gerrymander Republicans completely out of their states forever. And of course, this will make Black, Latino, and Asian populations in those districts less powerful in every one of those new seats than they were in the single old seat. These new seats will have increased white voting power, even if they are white Democrats. Statistics tell us that majority white districts don’t very often (although not never) elect minority members of Congress. And so the Congressional Black Caucus will not only lose members in deep red states that want to get rid of them. They will also lose members in deeply BLUE states and areas that actually don’t mind electing them now. The Democratic Party’s elected members of Congress will increasingly be white, or at a minimum be made up of members whose politics have to cater to their majority suburban white electorates. It will re-center Democratic politics in this way. It will also have a profound impact on Presidential primary math, where a large bulk of delegates are elected at the district level. Increasingly, Black voters will not be as determinative over that process either. The last time Democrats nominated someone with weak or tepid Black support for President was 1988, for reference.
Now, before you go and make a presumption about how Democrats feel about this, I want you to stop for a second and look around. The PodSave America bros spent yesterday crowing about Ken Martin not releasing an autopsy from the 2024 election because they think it will show that Gaza was “the factor” in that election. Janet Mills was forced to drop out of the Senate race in Maine, handing the Democratic nomination there to a white guy who looks and talks like a Nazi. Here in the Lehigh Valley, Elizabeth Warren is swooping in from out of state to endorse a deadbeat who has no core Democratic values. Bernie Sanders has talked more about oligarchy in the last 24 hours than Civil Rights. I think we have to call some things for what they are- Democrats were turning away from their core Civil Rights message anyway. Democrats felt that their two most loyal groups of voters, Black voters and Jewish voters, were too far from the median of the electorate when picking Democratic nominees. Democrats were already moving this way, and the response of some of them to this potentially ground shifting court decision gives away the game- they were ready and fine with this happening. No, they probably don’t love that voting rights are being gutted, but this does make the strategic move they wanted to make a lot easier. Now when they crack many of these majority-minority districts and dilute their voting power, they can say they were forced to by reality, not because it was a choice over the kind of party they wanted. Sure, there will still be some non-white folks winning Democratic elections, a portion of the base feels good about voting that way, but they will be candidates who cater to white liberal/progressive activists, which is exactly what the DC Democratic establishment had already decided was where they wanted to be. Now they can get there without spilling any blood on their own.
Really the only two guardrails on Democratic politics and keeping the party somewhat sane are organized labor (particularly the building trades) and Black and Latino voters. They are the two groups who were the most steadfast behind Joe Biden in the 2020 Primaries and represent the groups that are actually most moderate in the party. One has been shrinking in numbers and has been harmed by numerous Supreme Court decisions in recent years, and now the other is simply going to be bleeding political power from now until 2031, at the least. Then things will begin to settle into the new norm I describe above. Democrats will increasingly begin re-centering white activists over Black and Latino base voters. Messaging will change. The kinds of candidates who win will change. Democrats will look and sound a lot more like Jennifer Welch than Jim Clyburn. The Democratic Party will be fundamentally different.
I’ve been very critical of the Democratic Party in recent years for perhaps leaning too hard on the 48% of the vote we get now. This would be a course correction that would actually make things worse. One of the presumptions many white Democrats have is that if we talked more about class, and less about identity, we’d win more elections. You may have a point about identity costing us as many votes as we get, but the first part is silly and completely misguided. White Republicans only hate one thing more than Democratic minorities- white Democrats. The entire Republican Party at this point splits into two groups- folks that hate everything liberalism/progressivism stands for and want it eradicated, and people who know their party has a good few lunatics, but think the Democratic Party is batshit crazy. None of them are clamoring for the socialist revolution. People voting Republican right now aren’t coming over to the Democratic Party because we re-brand a bit. Here’s the thing though, some of the folks voting for us now will either flip on us or just not vote. It doesn’t take much to insure we’re a minority party for the foreseeable future. One out of every twenty might be enough, 15% is a sure thing. Much of the argument for the party going populist has been that “almost all” of the Democratic voters would stay. Sure, maybe. Almost all means 20 more years of losses. It’s kind of funny, because we last went through a puritanical reformation after Civil Rights passed and we lost the 1968 election. We moved far left/anti-war left in 1972 and got absolutely throttled. In fact we got blown out in every Presidential election but one after 1968 for the next 20 years. And then we moderated towards our current version and won the popular vote in all but two Presidential election for 32 years. When a white dominated electorate is faced with a purely ideological question, why would they pick leftism? Let’s be honest, they never have in our history. Who is to say that some of the *white* Democratic voters we have right now will even like a Euro-populist left political party. Again, we were founded on a tax revolt.
Let’s be honest. Most of the DC Democratic Party thinks after Hillary and Kamala that women who unapologetically talk about Civil Rights and social issues are going to lose. That is the legacy of 2024, and at least for a while it will guide how much of the “braintrust” down there operates. They’ll look for every mediocre, just-good-enough white guy Governor they can find to run in 2028 and try to convince us we want them. Before yesterday, they were likely to lose. Now I can’t predict 2028 for sure, but I think we can see the longer term trend. Perhaps Joe Biden’s administration was not something we could sell to America, so it was bad for the country. Where we’re almost certainly going now though is likely to be just as bad, and have far less positive outcomes. Democrats will become as unserious and unhelpful as the GOP, and probably begin following carnival sideshow freaks in cult like fashion too. In a word, this is the hell we have waited for. Welcome to the show.
Bob “Crooksy” Brooks was briefly in court today. His former mother-in-law is suing him again, since he still hasn’t paid her back any money that two courts found that he owed her. His basic argument against paying up is “tough shit.” From Lehigh Valley News:
Wiley sued the Moore Township couple in February, alleging they are trying to hide assets to avoid paying her more than $162,000 from a previous lawsuit.
In a court filing this month, the Brookses denied the allegations and argued that Wiley has missed her window to bring new litigation.
Sounds familiar. His argument against her when he lost the initial lawsuit for not paying was that she waited too long to sue him. Not that he didn’t sign the promissory note in 2008, not that he tried to pay her back and she declined, not even that he couldn’t afford to pay her back at any point from 2004 until 2018. His argument was that she waited too long to collect. Basically tough shit, you old hag. Bob “Crooksy” Brooks ain’t paying her a dime, too late.
Of course the courts laughed at Crooksy and awarded her not only the initial $55k, but all the interest and other costs and ran that number up over $162,000. So Deadbeat Bob had a master plan- quitclaim the property to his new wife, who has the same name as his old wife, and hope no one notices. And for a while, apparently no one did.
Here’s the facts, as told by Lehigh Valley News, again:
Brooks and his first wife, Jennifer Lynn, had agreed to pay her parents $55,000 at 6% annual interest, but paid only about $100 over 10 years.
In 2018, Wiley sued her daughter and Bob Brooks, who had divorced by then, for the overdue payment.
A Northampton County judge ruled in Wiley’s favor in 2020, and an appellate court upheld the ruling in 2022. In the newest suit, Wiley said Brooks has yet to pay her and now owes her $162,586.
Wiley also accused Brooks and his second wife, Jennifer Lynne, of creating a fraudulent deed over a Moore Township property.
After Bob Brooks and his first wife divorced, he took sole ownership possession of their 1-acre property. However, Jennifer Lynn never signed the paperwork that would have removed her name from the deed.
In 2022, Brooks and his second wife Jennifer Lynne transferred the property solely to Jennifer Lynne Brooks.
Wiley contended in the latest lawsuit that Jennifer Lynne Brooks shouldn’t have been able to sign away Jennifer Lynn’s claim on the property.
Confusion over the two women’s names likely allowed the document to slip past county officials, Wiley argued. She is asking the court to throw out the quitclaim deed and award her punitive damages for the Brookses’ alleged misdeeds.
In a response filed this month, attorney Moore called on the court to dismiss the lawsuit. Wiley had a five-year period to file a lien or seek her damages, which he argued ended in September 2025.
In addition, Ryan argued that the Brookses are within their legal rights to put the home in Jennifer Lynne Brooks’ name.
While the paperwork over the property’s ownership has lagged, Bob Brooks was effectively the property’s only owner following the divorce.
Jennifer Lynne Brooks gained a right to the property after she married him, and the quitclaim deed showed the couple transferring the rights from the two of them to solely Jennifer Lynne Brooks.
“We stand by the defenses asserted in our preliminary objections,” Moore said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “We believe that they are strong and that we will prevail.”
Deadbeat Bob got one over on everyone here. It seems logically possible that if his ex-wife literally gave up her claim to the house in the divorce, Crooksy may have a legal right to give it his new wife entirely. Of course, he initially lost the lawsuit in 2020 and quitclaimed the house over to his new wife in 2022, so for two years he held the property and wasn’t paying his debt, but he was appealing the case at the time. At a minimum though, it appears that Deadbeat Bob quitclaimed the property in 2022, as he was losing the appeal, in an effort to shield the property from the court’s order to pay up. I’m not a lawyer and have no idea if he can actually shield the property this way from a court order. At least not from a legal stand point. I also don’t know exactly when the five year clock for her to sue over this misleading act began or ended.
I do know this though- Bob “Crooksy” Brooks signed a promissory note to pay money back to his family. He basically paid none of it, only paying $100 on $55,000. He got sued. Deadbeat Bob lost. Deadbeat Crooksy then tried to hide his assets in an effort to evade a court ruling that he lost. He may legally get away with that, I’ll let the people making the big bucks figure it out. Deadbeat Bob is absolutely truthfully, if not legally, a deadbeat crook for not paying his court ordered debts to another person.
I also know this- this case will not be over before the primary. Crooksy’s next day in court over this is in June. It probably won’t end then. In fact, this lawsuit probably won’t end before November. I also know that a Republican is the Pennsylvania Attorney General and a Republican appointee is the U.S. Attorney. If Deadbeat Bob gets nominated for Congress in swing PA-7, they will probably open investigations into whether he is committing fraud or mortgage crimes here. And the House Ethics Committee will almost certainly investigate the claim filed against Crooksy if he’s the nominee. This will hang over the race all the way through, and if he somehow became Congressman, probably beyond that.
I know one more thing- Republicans. While Crooksy was agreeing with them on Obama, guns, racism, political violence, and God know’s what else, I was working for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. Republicans run brutal campaigns, and they’re effective too. They are going to remind voters every single day that he stiffed his mother-in-law, that he is being sued for not paying her, and that he’ll be under investigation, not to mention the stuff he’s apologized for online. Here’s the thing too, a lot of times Republicans embellish things, as they did against Susan Wild in 2024, in unfair attacks. They don’t have to do that to Deadbeat Bob. A court already found that Deadbeat Bob Brooks deserves the name “Crooksy.” All they have to do is repeat that.
Apocalypse Vibes 