Heard on the Hill: Local News Connoisseur

By Neda Semnani

Posted July 29, 2011 at 5:53pm

Rep. Mo Brooks swears he reads local papers. After the Alabama Republican was quoted by the Decatur Daily saying he reads mostly D.C.-based newspapers, his staff let us know that’s not true.

“Congressman Brooks reads many local Alabama newspapers on a daily basis,” Brooks spokeswoman Skyla Freeman assured us.

His public disbursement forms also show subscriptions to Decatur Daily and his hometown paper, the Huntsville Times.

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