Pennsylvania’s 7th District
Bob Brooks.Accused of racism.
He shared a meme with an extremist group’s symbol. Then he deleted his posts.
The Lehigh Valley can’t trust Bob Brooks.
Pennsylvania’s 7th District
He shared a meme with an extremist group’s symbol. Then he deleted his posts.
The Lehigh Valley can’t trust Bob Brooks.
Of keeping Black and Latino people from joining the club where he ran the bar.
Bob Brooks shared a meme with an extremist group’s symbol.
His 2019 posts were gone by the time they surfaced this year.
Sept. 2026
He’s accused of keeping Black and Latino people from joining the club where he ran the bar.
The Lehigh Latino Republican Alliance says the Hecktown Social Club had an unofficial “whites only” policy in the early 2000s, when Bob Brooks was the club’s steward, in charge of the bar. It says Brooks was “actively involved.” A former member says that while Brooks was steward, “they deterred minorities from joining.”
Source: Lehigh Latino Republican Alliance release, via Lehigh Valley Ramblings, Sept. 3, 2026.
The Lehigh Valley can’t trust Bob Brooks.
Aug. 4, 2019
The day after a gunman targeting Latinos killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart, Bob Brooks shared a meme carrying the logo of the Three Percenters, an antigovernment group.
Source: The Washington Post, April 20, 2026; Lehigh Valley Public Media, April 24, 2026; NPR, Feb. 8, 2023.
April 2026
Bob Brooks’s 2019 posts had been deleted by the time they came to light this April.
The Lehigh Valley can’t trust Bob Brooks.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.
Election Day
Tuesday, November 3