But since last summer, Bryce has endured bad headline after bad headline: about his
nine arrests, including one for driving under the influence; about his
delinquent child-support payments and
personal debts; and about his views on
labor unions and the
GOP tax-cut bill. His Democratic opponent, Janesville School Board member Cathy Myers, has
seized on the controversies (although she herself was accused of a
conflict of interest in 2015) and hasn't shied away from contrasting her gender with Bryce's
indelicate tweets about women. Her strategy may be paying off: Myers has raised
$1.3 million — no Iron Stache haul, but a hefty sum for an ordinary congressional race — and she ran even with Bryce in a
poll of the Democratic primarysponsored by a conservative super PAC.