Meet the Real Bruce Braley

The Quad City Times recently wrote personal stories about the 2 candidates in the 1st District, Mike Whalen and Bruce Braley. The story on Democrat Bruce Braley is about him mentoring a young boy, who later gets cancer. Here is part of the story about Braley...

With Crawley facing long bouts with chemotherapy at University Hospitals in Iowa City (and a family with a lot of responsibilities at home in Waterloo), Braley made the decision to step away from his law practice and be with the youth as he went through it.

“I went to my partners and told them I was not going to be around for a while,” he says. “I ended up packing most of my stuff, including my computer, my research, some files and drove off to Iowa City and moved into his hospital room — literally.”

Then there is this that sums up Braley and counters the negative "liberal trial lawyer" image the Republicans have tried to paint..

Crawley recovered, and now he, as well as others who know Braley, say the picture the Republicans are painting of him — as a greedy trial lawyer only interested in suing doctors and nurses — is distorted.

They and Braley say what happened in Crawley’s room — and the inspiration he got outside it watching the courage of other children facing life-threatening diseases — is more indicative of his life, one he’s spent helping, not suing, people.