We all know that Bob Brooks doesn’t like to pay his debts, he’s not into accountability. Crooksy thinks you can be a racist, or say you hate Barack Obama, or be a gun nut and religious zealot, and even turn a blind eye to political violence, and people should still vote for you in a Democratic Primary. Crooksy thinks his bad behavior is fine, because it’s him. Deadbeat Bob has ethics issues. Big ones. We should ignore those too, though. Just ask Deadbeat Bob. The only reason this imbecile is even a thought in this race is Josh Shapiro, and he threw him under the bus too. Crooksy is the kind of friend you never let behind you.

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:

1. No one knows who the donors are. They don’t have to report yet.
2. The bank being used to pay for the spots, Amalgamated Bank, is used by Democratic Groups and unions.
3. They’re mostly banking this theory on the fact that OTG Media Group is new. Are they? There is an OTG Strategies that did millions of dollars in business for Kamala Harris and Democrats everywhere in 2024. Their employees also donate to all Democrats. Is this a spin off of that firm? Did they just rename? No idea. Even if it’s not them, we’d need to know a lot more about this firm.

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.