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GOP lawmaker meeting with inmates compares their challenges to negative campaign ads
VeryHiddenGeniusHat Retweeted:Rep. Dave Brat visited incarcerated drug addicts and reportedly told them: "You think you're having a hard time. I've got $5 million worth of negative ads coming at me. How do you think I'm feeling? Nothing's easy. For anybody."
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GOP lawmaker meeting with inmates compares their challenges to negative campaign ads
BY EMILY BIRNBAUM - 10/18/18 10:27 AM EDT
Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) during a visit with incarcerated drug addicts compared their challenges to the negative campaign ads he has faced in his reelection campaign, telling them "nothing's easy."
"You think you’re having a hard time," he said to the inmates as they told him about their struggles finding work and battling addiction, according to a local NPR station. "I've got $5 million worth of negative ads coming at me." ... "How do you think I’m feeling?" he asked. "Nothing’s easy. For anybody."
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"You think I’m a congressman, ‘Oh, life’s easy, this guy’s off having steaks every day,’ ” Brat said to the inmates a Chesterfield County Jail. “Baloney. I’ve got a ... daughter, she’s got to deal with that crap on TV every day.” ... He later acknowledged that the incarcerated men and women have it "harder."
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BY EMILY BIRNBAUM - 10/18/18 10:27 AM EDT
Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) during a visit with incarcerated drug addicts compared their challenges to the negative campaign ads he has faced in his reelection campaign, telling them "nothing's easy."
"You think you’re having a hard time," he said to the inmates as they told him about their struggles finding work and battling addiction, according to a local NPR station. "I've got $5 million worth of negative ads coming at me." ... "How do you think I’m feeling?" he asked. "Nothing’s easy. For anybody."
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"You think I’m a congressman, ‘Oh, life’s easy, this guy’s off having steaks every day,’ ” Brat said to the inmates a Chesterfield County Jail. “Baloney. I’ve got a ... daughter, she’s got to deal with that crap on TV every day.” ... He later acknowledged that the incarcerated men and women have it "harder."
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