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.

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.

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.

Graham Platner in Maine is drawing a lot of comparisons to Fetterman. Obviously, he got a Nazi tattoo, something that should be disqualifying, but leftists love it. He posted hateful rhetoric on Reddit, attacking sexual assault victims, criticizing Black people for not tipping, and using homophobic slurs. His campaign is paying his wife, allowing him to profit personally and still collect his disability. Platner defended urinating on dead fighters and once was a Blackwater mercenary. This guy is a walking red flag, and he’s bad enough to make me appreciate Fetterman. This guy is a scumbag and I hope he loses.

Here in the Lehigh Valley, we have Bob “Crooksy” Brooks. Deadbeat Bob is trying very hard to stiff his ex-mother-in-law out of six figures of money he owes her. He hates Barack Obama. He hates Colin Kaepernick for opposing police brutality. He supports guns and school prayer. He’s at least oblivious to political violence, if not worse. He’s kind of stupid. There’s an ethics investigation into him. Man, I’d hate to hear how this guy talked as a bartender, wouldn’t you? Seems like a wonderful, tolerant, good person.

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.

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:

Bob Brooks and Wiley have been entangled in litigation since 2018 over a 2008 promissory note.

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.

Yesterday a Lehigh Valley politician text me quite upset that Bob “Crooksy” Brooks was being endorsed by the Blue Dogs. They said to me incredulously, “So we have a Bernie-endorsed, Medicare For All supporting and Progressive Caucus candidate, who the BLUE DOGS are endorsing?? They’re about as conservative as the Dem caucus gets. This guy is all over the place.”

Yep, we’re getting warmer here.

The entire plan to get Bob “Crooksy” Brooks to run for Congress was the most cynical kind of politics possible on the part of the people who talked him into it and endorsed him. They didn’t vet the guy at all before telling him it’s a great idea, because they knew he would cash in his union leadership position for enough money to pay some consultants a healthy pay day, which would help the careers of the youthful staffers who pushed this scheme. So they ignored that he stiffed his mother-in-law, that he hated Barack Obama, he’s a racist, he’s a gun and religion nut, and he’s oblivious to political violence. They knew that some heavy-hitters in the Democratic Party would ignore all of these flaws too, because endorsing him would be good for their ambitions. They knew that once those heavy-hitters were on board, many in the political class would fall in line with them and defend a guy who holds none of their values, because they’re sheeple. And with money, endorsers, and completely establishment creatures spinning a guy taking money from his mother-in-law, they might be able to get him across the line in the primary, and then they could pray that it’s a wave year and no one will care that we nominated a literally awful human being.

Ok, so now why?

It’s not like Crooksy is a big thinker. It’s not like this tree trunk is Machiavelli. As PoliticsPA more politely put it, the guy can barely put together a coherent sentence on his feet. I hate to compare him to John Fetterman, given Fetterman’s issues, but the shoe fits. The guy just goes out and repeats slogans and buzzwords, like “working class,” “Medicare for All,” and “Blue Collar.” As I said before, it’s a noun, a verb, and Josh Shapiro out of this guy’s mouth. He’s bringing about as much intellectual thought to government and politics as my one legged ass is bringing to a 100 meter dash race.

So let’s be honest about this- a bunch of DC consultants have decided the Democrats have a blue collar white guy problem to fix. Their theory is that as long as Trump is around they really don’t need to appeal to their actual base voters- people of color and college educated, white collar moderates that have been moving their way dating back to Trump’s arrival. Those married women with masters degrees in Upper Macungie and the Black woman who is a leader in her church will never vote for Trump’s GOP, at least in these smart DC types’ minds. So don’t worry about them. Nominate a bald white guy who has no real ideas and has spent most of his life disagreeing with what the Democratic Party has become, and try to win back the mythical white unicorn with a sub-mediocre IQ and a ton of opinions about “how the world has changed.” Maybe as an added bonus if he hits all of the buzzwords that are cool with the terminally online crowd he can appeal to people that find the Democratic Party’s longstanding battles for equality and Civil Rights boring compared to some mythological revolution. It’s so dumb that it can appeal to all of the really dumb people at once, and well, we’ve seen how that works.

This approach is not only insulting to actual Democratic base voters, but it’s actually deeply insulting to voters who haven’t been voting for us too. So basically you’re saying to the former Democratic voter in Whitehall or Northampton that works in a blue collar job that you think this thoughtless drone is what they want to see? Give me a break. Republicans are not going to buy into this guy who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders. Literally all of them fit into two camps at this point- people that are voting Republic because they think Democrats have lost their minds, or people that are voting Republican because they want some sort of cultural inquisition to purge our politics of liberal thought. The guy endorsed by Bernie Sanders appeases neither of those groups and disappoints the people who have been with us for a while now.

Bob “Crooksy” Brooks is a candidate with no political soul. Is he a Blue Dog now because they endorsed him? Is he a populist progressive because Bernie Sanders and SEIU endorsed him? The truth is, he’s neither. He’s just another consultant laboratory creation in DC and Harrisburg that is looking forward to having a good time in DC on someone else’s dime. I mean, I guess in a different time in my life I’d justify running a bucket of slop for Congress by saying he’ll vote for a Democratic Speaker, but given his views on Kaepernick and Obama I doubt he really likes Hakeem Jeffries. Basically if this works, it’s a big “F-U” to the people who have been voting for us, I guess we had to sell you out to get power, and if it doesn’t, we’ll go through this whole stupid process again in two years with a tougher electorate and a new cast of characters to repeat it with. What a stupid idea this was.

Interesting stuff here–

On or about March 17, 2026, an Allentown resident – John Santana – observed that Crosswell’s red box content was set to password-protected, rendering it inaccessible to the general public. Santana also followed up four days later, only to find the red box still private. According to the complaint filed with the FEC, it “created a situation in which any outside group accessing and using this content could only have done so through direct or indirect coordination with the campaign,” in violation of FEC regulations.

The complaint also states that Crosswell “potentially facilitated illegal in-kind contributions to (his) campaign from outside groups operating on non-public materials.”

Campaigns post specific messaging requests, video footage, and voter targeting information (e.g., demographics) on their websites, often using a distinctively marked red box, notes the Campaign Legal Center. Often times, coded language is used, such as “see” for TV ads, “hear” for radio, or “read” for direct mail, to guide the outside group.

Redboxing also commonly involves posting footage and photos of the candidate, as well as strategy tips about the race. A super PAC supporting the candidate then uses the footage and photos along with the campaign-requested messaging in its ads.

I’ll say two things here- red boxes are completely legal. Second, and probably more importantly, there’s no reason on God’s Green Earth to put a password on your red box. Campaigns don’t use their websites to store their content. The only reason to have a red box is to make the information available to your outside supporters via one way communication. I have no idea what Crosswell, or for that matter Carol, had a password on their red box. Maybe they weren’t meant to be public yet for some reason. Or maybe they were giving the password out, as the complaint suggests. I don’t know how you ask the FEC to go find probable cause to investigate that though. I thought you needed probable cause to investigate.

Another thing that just peaked my “spidey sense” a bit here- the individual filing the complaint is an operative. It’s not clear who he’d be working for though. He’s worked for the PA Dems (So maybe Brooks?), Working Families Party (Brooks), Make the Road (Brooks? I haven’t seen who they’re supporting), and interned for former Congresswoman Susan Wild. Regardless of who he did this on the behalf of, he caught something here. Putting a password on a red box is weird.

I’m going to lay this out pretty simply. Who is the real you? Absolutely none of us are exactly the person that we think we are in our minds. No one thinks *they* are a bad person when they’re doing bad things. They justify it to themselves, and sometimes there’s even logic to it. Life gets in the way of our better ideals sometimes. We take inconvenient, contradictory positions. That becomes even more true in the pursuit of power, riches, and fame. It’s why politics in general is full of a bunch of kiss asses who want important titles and positions. It’s not that they want to be kiss asses, but sometimes life gets in the way. I lived that life for like 22 years. Now I really don’t give a shit who hates me, or what blacklist they’re going to put me on. I’m just happy to be alive. I really don’t care if I’m never chairman of the committee on whatsha-muh-call-it, or get to speak at next year’s awards dinner. It’s small stuff.

Actions speak louder than words though. A guy sitting at the house his ex-in-laws helped him get, posting Oathkeeper memes is speaking his truth. A political candidate trying to convince voters to vote for him to be their Congressman will lie. Oh sure, they’ll tell you and themselves it’s not a lie, they’ll make up a reason they converted and saw the light. But they do that after how many years? It was 22 years ago that Bob “Crooksy” Brooks accepted help from his in-laws financially, it was 18 years ago that he signed a promissory note to pay it back, it was like 8 years ago that he was sued, and it was like four years ago that he lost his appeal in front of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, and for like all of that time he and his ex sat by and didn’t pay back the money they signed a contract to pay back. I’m sure he’s justified it in his own mind. I’m sure he thinks you should justify it as a bad divorce or “hard times,” or whatever too. But for a period of time longer than too many people’s lives, he didn’t do what he said he’d do.

In 2012, Bob wasn’t a Congressional candidate yet. He wasn’t the President of a statewide union yet. No Governors were calling him up and trying to be his friend, no Senators in Arizona knew who the hell he was, and certainly Bernie Sanders wasn’t too concerned about him yet. He was a normal guy, on the internet, stating his truth. His truth? He thought Barack Obama sucked. Why? Did he hate Obamacare? Did he wish Osama Bin Laden was still alive? Did he wish all those UAW jobs in Detroit that Obama saved were gone? Did he think passing modern banking regulations, or putting in place the first coherent strategy for fight climate change was bad? Maybe he wished the American economy had fully melted down in 2009? I don’t know. Now he has his “friends” Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro, and Ruben Gallego telling you he’s some sort of progressive champion. He’s an every man. Does he mean “every” man, or does he mean every man that isn’t like Colin Kaepernick that wanted to protest inequities and biases in our society? What exactly made him say that Kaepernick was a douchebag? Listen, I don’t pretend to love that Kaepernick became a symbol of protest in our country while justifying not voting. Bob didn’t cite that though, kind of like he never told us why he disliked Obama at the time. The truth is that he did not agree with the majority of Democrats on Obama, or Kaepernick, but now wants you to know that he’s going to restore “true” Democratic values in Washington, if you just trust him. Kind of like he was going to pay back his mother-in-law, trust him.

Today Bob wants you to vote for him for Congress. In 2019 he was posting a “III%’er” meme saying we need school prayer and guns in our society. Today he’ll tell you he doesn’t mean that. Of course not, Democratic Primary voters don’t like that. Does Bob though? He will definitely tell you he didn’t mean it then, and especially that he didn’t mean it in the context of posting it days after an armed white nationalist lunatic shot up a bunch of people at an El Paso Walmart. Trust him, he’s telling you the truth now with his words, not with his 2019 actions. Trust him, like his mother-in-law should have.

You know, there’s a lot of people who express political views they come to regret later, some genuinely and some because it becomes a problem for them. There’s plenty of people who fight with their family and have money issues. There are literally millions of Democrats with mixed and even negative views about the direction their party has chosen to take, including the person you’re reading right now. I could almost give “Crooksy” a pass on it all today. Almost. He should have run as who he is, who he demonstrated he is by his actions over decades. Of course, he may not know who that is, since he originally endorsed one of his opponents and then decided to change his mind like a starf**ker once he got a little attention from some powerful people telling him he should run. But you see, that’s the thing- I get lying to yourself, anyone can be a hypocrite, but it’s that Bob lies to literally anyone. I mean, the guy’s argument for his 2022 appeal of the money he owed his ex-mother-in-law was mostly that she *waited too long* to try and collect it. Not that he didn’t sign it in the first place. He argued technicalities. But now he wants you to know that she never really wanted it anyway, even after having him sign a contract, and she’s not a great person. But you know, forget that he signed it, right?

Some people say we shouldn’t go negative in a primary. Still more say we should let candidates explain their past. Look guys, that’s just not how campaigns work. You either find out now and decide if you can accept a lying right-wing MAGA guy as your Congressman, or you find out in September and October when some shady super PAC pastes it on your eye balls with TV ads. Maybe you’re fine that he was funding election deniers and pro-lifers while not endorsing Kamala Harris from his post as a union leader. You should probably know that you need to be fine with that. All I’ve done about him here is tell you the truth, there’s nothing more I can do with it. As one family member said to me, “he’s the one that’s going to win.” And you know what, maybe he is. I mean look at all the people who initially said they’d support someone else, or were natural allies with the folks supporting another candidate, and now they’re all defending the indefensible because they’re afraid of retribution. As I said up top, it’s a business of kiss asses. People who want to keep their “important title/job” in the party. So they want people to keep quiet, in the hopes that they can ram him through the primary and hope that people are so sick and mad about Trump that they’ll still vote for this pile of slop. Then maybe sometime in the next couple of years before the guy loses when the political atmosphere evens out more, just maybe he’ll take a picture with them at a gala or endorse their candidacy for dog catcher in Podunk Township. That’s what it’s all about, right?

Forget all of that though, let’s just accept the obvious truth- Bob “Crooksy” Brooks believed everything he said online, everything he did in his life, and is exactly the person his actions suggest, he’s just sorry he got caught. Now that he’s a candidate he needs to be what John Fetterman’s consultants are telling him to be, to win this primary. I’m sure he won’t flip back to some of his old positions once he’s nominated though, it’s not like there’s other voters out there who do believe these things. There’s no way he was being honest as an actual “every man” citizen in 2019 or 2012, he’s being honest now as a candidate. I guess you could almost believe that if you’re just getting to know him now in 2026. Some folks knew him when he was the bartender he talks about on his commercials. They knew the real Bob “Crooksy” Brooks. The one he’s apologizing for now. They knew the “Crooksy” who wasn’t Congressional material. Be honest, you do too.