Dem Candidate’s Bizarre Com­ments Attack­ing Vol­un­teer Fire­fight­ers Resur­face

The bizarre com­ments a Penn­syl­va­nia Demo­c­rat made den­i­grat­ing vol­un­teer fire­fight­ers have resur­faced after a recent post he made thank­ing first respon­ders for help­ing to put out a mas­sive blaze. 
Bob Brooks, a fire­fight­er union chief chal­leng­ing Rep. Ryan Macken­zie (R‑PA), once called vol­un­teer fire­fight­ers “two hat­ter sh*tbags” who weak­en unions. Yet he recent­ly thanked vol­un­teer fire­fight­ers for respond­ing to a mas­sive fire at a for­mer fur­ni­ture fac­to­ry in Allen­town, Penn­syl­va­nia. 
“Just for the record! If you are an IAFF [Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Fire Fight­ers] mem­ber and you vol­un­teer in an area that responds to where o …