{"id":74596,"date":"2026-06-08T05:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/im-tired-of-getting-kicked-in-the-teeth-firefighting-union-leader-seeks-to-shake-up-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:56:49","slug":"im-tired-of-getting-kicked-in-the-teeth-firefighting-union-leader-seeks-to-shake-up-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/im-tired-of-getting-kicked-in-the-teeth-firefighting-union-leader-seeks-to-shake-up-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m tired of getting kicked in the teeth\u2019: firefighting union leader seeks to shake up Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Bob Brooks one of a slew of working-class Democrats on the ballot \u2013 can he beat a Koch-backed rival?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Brooks has worked a lot of jobs, sometimes several at once to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>He was a paper boy at age 10, and then a dishwasher, prep cook, pizza deliverer, bartender and truck driver. Even after he became a firefighter in 2005, Brooks managed to start a snow-removal and lawn-care business and coach baseball.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/bob-brooks-pennsylvania-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Bob Brooks one of a slew of working-class Democrats on the ballot \u2013 can he beat a Koch-backed rival? Bob Brooks has worked a lot of jobs, sometimes several at once to make ends meet. He was a paper boy at age 10, and then a dishwasher, prep cook, pizza deliverer, bartender and truck &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I\u2019m tired of getting kicked in the teeth\u2019: firefighting union leader seeks to shake up Congress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/im-tired-of-getting-kicked-in-the-teeth-firefighting-union-leader-seeks-to-shake-up-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I\u2019m tired of getting kicked in the teeth\u2019: firefighting union leader seeks to shake up Congress\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}