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\u2022 VA-07<\/strong>: What a swell guy Dave Brat is! The Republican congressman, who’s in the fight of his political life against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, was visiting a local jail on Wednesday, where he met with a support group of inmates struggling with addiction. But just check out the dude’s empathy<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n “You think you’re having a hard time\u2014I got $5 million worth of negative ads going at me. How do you think I’m feeling? Nothing’s easy. For anybody. You think I’m a congressman. ‘Oh, life’s easy. This guy’s off having steaks.’ Baloney! I got a daughter, she’s got to deal with that crap on TV every day. It’s tough. No one out there’s got some easy life.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Oh yes! Being the target of attack ads is just like losing your freedom, trying to overcome a drug addiction, and worrying about your future after your release. The rest of his remarks were just as clueless: When one prisoner said that halfway houses are often in drug-infested areas, Brat tried to claim the kind of place where he lives isn’t all that nice, saying, “You won’t believe the depression in those hoity-toity neighborhoods.” (Is that so!)<\/em><\/p>\n He also complained that when he left his professorship to serve in Congress\u2014a decision he made freely, when he chose to challenge then-Rep. Eric Cantor\u2014his children were no longer entitled to free tuition at his college, whining, “I didn’t have any savings. All went away\u2014oops! So, plans change.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You really, really need to read this one from DailyKos Elections: \u2022 VA-07: What a swell guy Dave Brat is! The Republican congressman, who’s in the fight of his political life against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, was visiting a local jail … Continue reading \n