An incoming Republican congressman is providing bipartisan due to his future colleagues for serving to him to snag an official workspace that was as soon as occupied by his great-grandfather.
Tom Barrett, who earlier this month flipped the open seat vacated by Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D) in Michigan’s seventh Congressional District, had circulated a letter on Thursday to fellow Home freshmen forward of the workplace lottery on the Capitol.
Through the lottery, new members select numbers to find out the order wherein they’ll choose their places of work.
“I’ve shared with several of you that my great-grandfather, Louis Rabaut from Michigan, served here in Congress and was first elected 90 years ago in 1934,” mentioned the letter, posted on social media by NOTUS’s Katherine Swartz.
“He died in office in 1961, long before I was born, so I never had the opportunity to meet him or ask him about his time in Congress, but his legacy is something my whole family is very proud of,” Barrett, 43, mentioned.
In response to Barrett, his great-grandfather occupied three totally different areas within the Longworth Home Workplace Constructing.
“If one or more of them become available I would deeply appreciate it if you could afford me the opportunity to select one of them,” he mentioned in his word.
Just a few hours after later, in a possible workplace politics saga-turned-heartwarming Home story, Barrett shared that he was Longworth-bound.
“We got it! I appreciate everyone who followed along and showed their support,” he mentioned.
“Thank you to my Freshmen colleagues, Republicans AND Democrats, who were kind enough to allow me to select the office once occuped by my great grandfather,” he mentioned.
In his unique attraction to his colleagues, Barrett wrote, “Perhaps 90 years from now one of your descendants will be asking their colleagues to hold your office available for them to occupy.”
