Nobody is Shouting Bruce Braley Down Now
By way of full disclosure, readers should be aware that I have a man-crush on U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley.
Here's the deal. Braley is a former president of the Iowa Association for Justice, and despite that, won election to Congress. I am also an evil, greedy trial lawyer, and I happen to sit on the board of the Maryland Association for Justice. We recently held our annual Installation Gala recognizing our immediate past president Kevin Goldberg and honoring our new president, Robert Zarbin. Congressman Braley was our keynote speaker.
As part of Braley's talk, he played to us this clip of bad people shouting "trial lawyer" and "ambulance chaser" at him when he spoke on the House floor about patient rights during debate on the healthcare bill:
It's funny how things change. Since the bad guys shouted good old Bruce down, there was a little oil well explosion down in the Gulf of Mexico. People seem to like trial lawyers a lot more when the stuff that "can't happen to them," you know, happens to them. Check out this video (HT to PopTort) of Braley ripping into a Transocean executive because his company coerced traumatized workers from Deepwater Horizon to sign affidavits the day after the accident saying they weren't injured and didn't witness anything. Nobody's shouting him down now, are they?
I wish I lived in Iowa, just so I could vote for Bruce Braley.
