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Why Eric Cantor Going To Head Big Pharma Is The Swampiest Move Ever

Eric Cantor will become the next head of PhRMA, and the two seem made for each other for all the wrong reasons.

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That cynical reaction perfectly summed up the recent news that former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., will become the next head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) in November. If not exactly a match made in heaven, the two seem made for each other — for many of the wrong reasons.

Cantor Lost His Congressional Job for Ignoring Constituents

People tend to forget that Cantor’s June 2014 loss in a Republican congressional primary to future Rep. Dave Brat — the first loss by a House majority leader since the position’s creation — was a secret hiding in plain sight. It wasn’t just that Cantor went soft on immigration in ways that troubled his constituents; it’s that Cantor had little time for his constituents, period. As a local Virginia-based reporter noted after Cantor had lost:

You could tell wherever you went that Cantor was incredibly unpopular, that people saw him as arrogant. … Dave Brat gave me his cellphone number when I first met with him, and I pretty much had him to myself.

You could tell wherever you went that Cantor was incredibly unpopular, that people saw him as arrogant. … Dave Brat gave me his cellphone number when I first met with him, and I pretty much had him to myself.

The local reporter “had Brat to himself” because national reporters didn’t bother to — or want to — cover the Brat-Cantor race. As The New York Times put it, “No one wants to stray from the white-hot center of power for fear of being stuck in some........

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