Bob Brooks

they're getting worse and they're getting worse you can just you just tell when you're talking to people um you know they don't like going to the filter gas tank anymore right things are double triple what they used to cost as a small business owner i think we talked about this last time you know i have three diesel pickup trucks to use to push snow and i don't drive much right now because i don't want to fill them up but i was talking to a guy just the other day a friend of mine who owns a small business and he does trophies and stuff

with all the taxes and the tariffs and everything that's been levied on a small business like he's struggling to make ends meet he's struggling uh to keep things keep things going it's it's destroying them so uh you know when we see that happening that's disheartening and uh we like to call ryan mckenzie the arsonist because he starts all these fires and then two weeks later says oh i'm gonna put up this bill i'm gonna i'm gonna co-sponsor this and co-sponsor it's too late man he already started the fire

Yeah, I mean, that's what I've been doing for the last 20 years as the president of my local, now the president of the state association where I've been working for my members.

So we have about 8,000 members, 74, 75 different locals that all rely on us to work for them.

And that's all I think I wanna do is bring common sense

um working class people's problems to washington dc because right now we don't believe we're being being thought of or or cared about and i think that's problematic so when you start when you start talking to people um they left the democratic party a whole group of people left the democratic party because they felt like it was becoming the party of elites and they went over either independent or republican

And if they went to Republican, they're feeling lied to right now.

So that's what they're seeing.

It's just they get lied to and sold a bill of goods and it just doesn't settle.

So I think I have the unique ability to bring them back.

You know, just a working class guy.

Get up.

I work every day.

I've usually worked multiple jobs at a time just to make ends meet.

And I've kind of lived the life that a lot of them are living right now.

And that's why I got into this, is I think that's the way it should be.

But as we're seeing right here in PA7, the GOP and the Super PAC just jumped into our race yesterday and started trying to prop up one of my Democratic opponents.

They're obviously afraid of us.

I'm definitely the candidate they don't wanna see in a general election.

They attack every day, but now they're starting to run ads, send mailers, all negative against me.