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Mayor Lou Barletta, the popular mayor of Hazleton, PA, has built up quite a fan base over the past few years. Due in large part to his “Illegal Immigration Relief Act”, which was one of the harshest and most extreme pieces of immigration legislation ever proposed in this country, Barletta became, for a time, the poster boy for tough immigration enforcement. However, once his beloved little ordinance was ruled unconstitutional by a Federal Judge, and once people got a better look at who Barletta really was, his star lost a lot of its brilliance. However, Barletta’s popularity with one group of people has been steadily on the rise.

Simply put, hate groups and extremists love Mayor Barletta. David Duke, an admitted racist, white supremacist, and former leader of the KKK, endorsed Lou Barletta for Congress in 2008. The Eagle Forum, an extremist right-wing group who is in favor of legislation making it legal for a man to rape his wife and to remove all forms of sexual education from public schools, came out in strong support for Lou Barletta when he ran for Congress. Maybe it’s just me, but if people like those folks are pushing hard for Barletta to become a United States Congressman (presumably because they believe Barletta will advance their beliefs into the halls of government), why in name of all that is decent would any sane person vote for Barletta?

Time and again, Barletta has said that he is not a racist and is only opposed to illegal immigration, not legal immigration. However, just recently, Mayor Barletta served as a guest speaker at an event hosted by Pat Buchanan. The event was put on by a group who is opposed to all forms of immigration and who believe that the influx of non-whites into this country is ruining our nation. One of the other guest speakers, Peter Brimelow, is an admitted white supremacist, author of several racist books, and spoke at the event of the Republican Party needing to get back to its roots, “white Americans.” These are the types of people that Mayor Barletta is associating himself with, all the while claiming that he isn’t a racist.

The Republican Party catches a lot of heat in the media, and in the minds of many Americans, as being a club for old, rich, white guys. It would seem that Mayor Lou Barletta, if he has his way, would like to make that perception a reality. This is just one more reason, and a very important reason, as to why Lou Barletta should not represent the Republican Party or the American people in the United States Congreess. Lou Barletta should not be elected to any higher office and it’s disgusting that a man like this is even allowed to serve as a mayor in this country.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

What does Lou Barletta have in common with disgraced South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford? No, unlike Sanford, there is no reason to believe that Mayor Barletta has cheated on his wife. However, they do share something in common: Both are embarrassments to the Republican Party. The difference is that while Mark Sanford’s political career is clearly over (or very close to it), Mayor Lou Barletta is contemplating running for the United States Congress. Again.

This is problematic for the Republican Party (of which I am a member), I think. It seems to me that the reason that the Republicans have had their asses handed to them in recent elections is due in large part to the quality, or lack thereof, of the candidates they are presenting to the American people. Lou Barletta is a prime example of the type of politician that, I think, the Republican Party needs to wash their hands of. I say this for a number of reasons.

For starters, Lou Barletta has accepted campaign money from both convicted drug dealers and dirty politicians. Worse, in the case of the drug dealers (who happen to now be local businessmen in Barletta’s home city of Hazleton), Barletta has defended these scumbags as “decent, hardworking” people. Additionally, Barletta has also built some to ties to known racists and white supremacists. During Barletta’s previous congressional campaign, he was endorsed by David Duke, a self-professed racist and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. And just recently, Barletta and Peter Brimelow (another admitted white supremacist) served as guest speakers at an event hosted by Pat Buchanan, an event whose theme seemed to be, “Republicans need to get back to our white American roots.” Disgusting.

But wait, it gets worse. Barletta, as mayor, has been a disaster. One of Barletta’s first acts as mayor was to cut the Hazleton Police force in half. Barletta then blamed the resulting rise in crime on an “illegal immigrant crime wave”, which was proven to be an outright lie in Federal Court. Barletta also has drilled the city of Hazleton so far into debt that it will probably take a generation for that city to see the light of day. Then there’s the matter of Barletta receiving a “loan” from a Hazleton bank, the type of loan that never needs to be re-paid and never accrues interest. In attempting to explain this embarrassing little incident away, Barletta ended up offering no less than three different stories in the span of eleven days. And on, and on, and on it goes.

All of this is why I think Lou Barletta should be considered political scum and is an embarrassment to not only the Republican Party, but decent Americans in general. If the Republicans insist of holding people like Lou Barletta up as shining examples of what the Republican Party represents, then they had best be prepared to continue to be embarrassed in epic fashion at the polls. Lou Barletta should NOT be elected to the United States Congress. He doesn’t deserve the opportunity and the American people and Republican party can do better.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

UPDATE:
Perhaps there IS reason to believe that Mayor Barletta cheated on his wife. According to The Accountability Moments Blog , Lou Barletta, several years ago, fathered a child with an underage, illegal immigrant. The website even cites an interview conducted with Barletta in which he doesn’t deny the rumor, directly, but kind of talks around the issue. At any rate, I haven’t seen enough evidence (any evidence, really) that would support such allegations, but still, it does make an interesting read.

I’m happy to announce that StopLouBarletta.com now has both a Twitter feed and a Facebook page. I wanted to do this (and have been meaning to do it for a while now…) because I think that it’s important to utilize both of these powerful tools to broaden the reach of the website. Twitter has proven itself to be one of the most powerful communication tools of this decade, especially in light of how effective it’s been in the Iran election fiasco. And Facebook has become, I think it’s safe to say, the most popular and most useful social networking site on the Internet. Combined with the main website, I think both of these online platforms will make a nice addition to the StopLouBarletta family.

The StopLouBarletta Facebook page can be found HERE. Anyone can join and can invite others to join, as well. I’ll keep the page updated with the latest Lou Barletta news, as well as post some conversation threads. I hope that the page can be used to further the discussion and debate about Mayor Barletta and his quest to obtain higher political office.

To follow the Twitter feed, simply go HERE. In addition to posting alerts to new blog posts, I’ll also use the feed to offer additional thoughts and opinions about Mayor Barletta, his policies, and his positions (or lack therof…). To keep it from getting monotonous, I’ll also post some comments about other things, as well (current events, local/national politics, movies, etc.).

I’d really appreciate it if you’d consider joining the Facebook page and following the Twitter feed. And please, please, please, join in on the conversation with your own thoughts and opinions. As I’ve said repeatedly, I’d rather have a conversation than conduct a sermon. Thanks, guys and gals!

All for now.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

After running for Congress twice, and losing both times, Hazleton’s Mayor Lou Barletta now says he might want to run for Congress again. Or maybe for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor. He’s not sure which, yet, apparently. At any rate, in my opinion, Barletta is clearly not fit to serve in either position. His last campaign for Congress was based almost entirely on lies, misinformation, and intimidation. As mayor of Hazleton, Barletta has screwed the city into the ground, racking up huge amounts of debt. The prospect of him serving in any higher office is frightening.

As reported in the Scranton Times a few weeks ago…

“Mr. Barletta, who was thought to be more interested in running for lieutenant governor next year, says he’s thinking about Congress again.

“Lieutenant governor came up as well” when he was asked, Mr. Barletta said. “I said I’d give it some thought. I’m testing the waters. But I’m actually leaning against it (running for lieutenant governor). … I’m not thinking more about running for Congress, just thinking less about lieutenant governor.”

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which aids Republican congressional candidates, is giving him the right of first refusal.

Mr. Barletta is promising an earlier decision this time, perhaps later this year. Last year, he didn’t make his run public until February.

So, it would appear, here we go again. If Lou Barletta is so hellbent on obtaining a higher political office, despite the fact that voters have twice made it clear that they really don’t want that to happen, that’s his decision. If he wants to add to the mountain of debt that he’s wracked up with his two previous bids for Congress, so be it. And if Barletta wants to embarrass himself and the Republican Party, again, so be it. However, if Barletta runs for a higher political office, I promise to do everything I possibly can to make the voters aware of what a horrible candidate Lou Barletta really is.

This website will remain dedicated to providing the facts about Mayor Lou Barletta and why Pennsylvania voters simply can not allow Lou Barletta to represent them in any higher office. The fact that this man has been put in a position to run a city (into the dirt…) is bad enough. He must not be allowed to bring his failed policies, half-cocked ideas, and racial bigotry to the halls of any higher office. It would be a nightmare.

As always, I would love to hear from all of you. PLEASE leave your comments expressing your thoughts on Mayor Lou Barletta and the prospects of him representing a larger constituency in a higher office. Whether you agree with me or not, I’d like to hear your opinion. All comments (except for obvious Spam or hate-speech) will be published to this blog, unedited. I also, from time to time, allow guest posts (posts written by someone other than me) on the site. If you have something you’d like considered for such a post, just email it to me. This site is meant to be an interactive place of discussion and I strongly encourage all of you to join in the debate.

All for now.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

So, what’s Mayor Lou Barletta up to these days? Apparently, he’s making new friends. Barletta recently attended and spoke at an anti-immigrant gathering hosted by Pat Buchanan. In addition to Barletta, Peter Brimelow was also a featured guest speaker. For those that don’t know, Brimelow is a self-professed “white nationalist” who also serves as the editor of Vdare.com, a radically right-wing, racist website. At the event, Brimelow gave his usual stump speech about the GOP needing to appeal to it’s real base, white Americans.

So after spending an entire election cycle swearing up and down that he is NOT a racist and NOT opposed to legal immigration, Barletta then goes as serves as a guest speaker at an event that promotes racist views and opposes all forms of immigration. To be fair, Barletta did say that he doesn’t share the beliefs of all of the speakers at the convention, but was there to speak about a topic he feels strongly about. The old saying of, “Don’t judge a man by his words, judge him by his actions,” comes to mind, here. It seems to me that if you are not a racist, you don’t agree to speak at a convention hosted and attended by a bunch of racists. Call me crazy.

The fact that Lou Barletta is still holding public office is why this website remains up and running. It’s clear to me that Barletta has not abandoned his aspirations of obtaining higher political office and, now desperate, is apparently willing to ally himself with racists and right-wing lunatics. As I’ve stated many times on this website, Lou Barletta is NOT someone who deserves to represent constituents at any level. Especially now that he’s associating with admitted racists.

-Dan Cheek
StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

PS
Special thanks to Gort for passing along the info about Barletta and his new pals. For more info on this event, and the morons who hosted it, check out the post on his blog.

Going into this race, everyone knew it would be close.  Mayor Barletta was, for quite a while, running ahead in most polls.  In September and October, Paul Kanjorski was able to close the gap, some.  Still, Barletta and his supporters all thought that he would be the one Republican candidate that would be able to go against the grain and actually unseat a Democratic congressman.  In the end, that hope evaporated into nothingness.

The way I see it, there were several factors that led to Mayor Barletta loosing a race that many (most?) people thought he should be able to win.  They are:

• Record voter turnout.  All across the nation, voter turnout was at all time highs.  Many of these voters were first time voters and, for the most part, they were not coming out to support the Republican ticket.  I believe that the polls leading up to this election, which showed Barletta slightly ahead, failed to take this into consideration.  The sample sizes they used to generate the results were probably too small.
• Anti-Republican sentiment.  It’s no secret that having a (R) listed next to your name on the ballot was a kiss of death, this election cycle.  While Barletta had been hoping that his popular anti-illegal immigration policies would be enough to counter this, that was simply not the case at all.  Barletta is a Republican (much to my dismay) and that, no doubt, cost him more than a few votes (to my elation).
• Huge financial shortcoming.  According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Barletta was always at a huge disadvantage, in terms of money.  According to the FEC: Paul Kanjorski spent over $2 million and still has almost a million dollars in cash and zero debt.  Compare that with Mayor Barletta, who spent less than a million dollars, has just over $100,000 cash and has racked up over $300,000 in debt.  With numbers like that, even in a pro-Republican environment, it would have been hard for Barletta to mount a successful attack on Kanjorski.
• Poor campaign management.  Barletta’s campaign manager was Vince Galko, a Republican operative who has a long history of loosing races for Republican candidates.  Mr. Galko worked on President Bush’s 2004 PA campaign (Bush lost PA that year), Senator Rick Santorum’s last election (Santorum lost to Bob Casey, Jr.), and Rudy Giulliani’s presidential campaign (which was one of the worst run campaigns in the history of American politics).  With help like that, Barletta really didn’t even need to be running against anyone to still pull out a loss.
• Poor understanding of the economy.  Many analysts credit the economic crisis for helping put Barack Obama over the top.  People believed that Obama was better able to deal with the crisis compared with McCain.  Similarly, Lou Barletta did nothing to prove to voters that he knew anything about the economy.  The city that he governs, Hazleton, is wracked with debt (most of which a direct result of Lou Barletta) and Barletta tried to blame the entire financial crisis on Paul Kanjorski, implying that by electing Barletta, the whole situation would simply reverse course.

All of this, I think, resulted in Mayor Barletta loosing the race.  Some of these factors were outside his sphere of control, but many of them were not.  As I’ve said since I put this site online in April, Lou Barletta is a poor candidate.  His flaws are many and his upside is almost non-existent.  If the Republican Party wants to have a shot in Hell at retaking the US Congress, we need to produce candidates who are electable.  In other words, the exact opposite of Mayor Lou Barletta.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

The votes are in and I am very, very pleased to say that Mayor Lou Barletta of Hazleton will be keeping his job as mayor and will NOT be moving on to the halls of the United States Congress.  For months, Mayor Barletta waged a political campaign that has relied upon lies, misinformation, and scare tactics.  He refused to take stands on real, important issues.  In the end, the voters of Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District saw Mayor Barletta for what he truly is: A narrow minded politician who lacked any real leadership skills or intelligent ideas for moving this country forward.

As a Republican, I would have liked to see a Republican take Kanjorski’s place, assuming that the person was someone worthy of representing both the people of the 11th Congressional District and the Republican Party in the United States Congress.  Clearly, Lou Barletta was not that type of person.  He has a proven track record of failure and during his tenure as the mayor of Hazleton, has drilled that city so far into the ground that it will take years to recover from his blundered leadership.

According to the Associated Press, Paul Kanjorski won the election by getting 140,119 votes to Mayor Barletta’s 130,649.  This election was one of the most exciting and closest elections in the country.  Lou Barletta came close to obtaining the title of “Congressman”, but, for the second time, came up short.  I can honestly say that both the country and the Republican Party is all the better for it.  Had Mayor Barletta been elevated to the rank of Congressman, he would have almost certainly have embarrassed both.

It’s getting late so I’ll end this post here.  In the coming days, I’ll post some final thoughts on Mayor Barletta and my plans for the future of this site.  I would like to thank everyone who has helped make this site as successful as it has been.  Thank you to all of the bloggers who linked to this site.  Thank you for all of the people who emailed me and left comments.  Regardless of whether or not you agreed with me, I always respected your opinions and was glad to hear from all of you.

Lou Barletta has been stopped and that, I think, is a very good thing indeed.  Good night, all.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

**Update 5 November 2008 7:10am**
Here is a video of Paul Kanjorski talking about his victory and where both he and Mayor Barletta stand going forward:

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Since April, I have been posting my opinions on why Mayor Lou Barletta is unfit to represent Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.  During that time, Barletta has done nothing to change my opinions and has, frequently, given me even more reason to doubt his ability to effectively represent his constituents in Congress.  Now, on the eve of election day, I would like to recap the main points of my opposition to Lou Barletta.

• Lou Barletta’s Flawed Immigration Policies.  Mayor Barletta is well known for his attempts to pass one of the nation’s most extreme immigration policies.  His “Illegal Immigration Relief Act” was one of the most heavy-handed approaches to dealing with illegal immigration.  A Federal Court struck down the law as being unconstitutional.  Worse, while attempting to defend his flawed law in court, Barletta managed to rack up over a million dollars in debt for the city of Hazleton, despite the fact that the Hazleton City Council never authorized Barletta to take the matter to court.
• Lou Barletta’s Refusal to Take Stands on Real Issues.  Barletta made his name by ranting and raving about illegal immigration.  However, when it comes to other issues, such as the Economy, the War in Iraq, and US Foreign Policy, Lou Barletta has issued, at best, rambling and ambiguous answers.  On the Iraq War, he has refused say whether or not he is in support of the war and what actions he would take in Congress in regards to the war.  On the Economy, Barletta has actually blamed the entire economic crisis on his opponent, Paul Kanjorski.
• Lou Barletta’s Ties to Crime.  In many of his commercials, Lou Barletta has claimed that he will bring “change” to Washington.  Considering that Barletta’s campaign is, in part, being funded by convicted cocaine dealers and an Senator who has recently been convicted of corruption, the “change” that Barletta wants to bring to the US Government won’t be for the best.  Even when confronted about the fact that his campaign has accepted money from convicted fellons, including drug dealers, Barletta has not only refused to give the money back, but he has actually defended these people as “honorable”, “hard working” citizens.
• Lou Barletta’s Lack of Experience.  Lou Barletta, in terms of real experience dealing with real issues, comes up short.  When confronted with a budget deficit, Mayor Barletta responded by cutting the Hazleton Police force in half and then blaming, falsly, the increase in crime on illegal immigrants.  Showing his complete incompetance in terms of the economy, Barletta has said that the entire US financial crisis in his opponent’s fault.  And, as I mentioned earlier, he has refused to take a stand on the Iraq War.  This is not the type of leadership that we need in the US Congress.

For all of these reasons, and a few more, I am strongly opposed to Lou Barletta representing anyone in the United States Congress.  Even though I am a Republican, I am opposed to Barletta because I feel that he lacks the values, experience, and leadership skills that make him an acceptable congressman.  Lou Barletta is clearly not fit to serve in the United States Congress.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com 

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About two weeks ago, I sat down for an interview with a reporter for The New Republic.  She had come to the area to gather research for an article that she was writing about Mayor Lou Barletta and his bid for the United States Congress.  In addition to me, the reporter, Marin Cogan, spoke to several other people who all had some insight into the race.  The article was published yesterday.

If you are interested in reading the article, and Ms. Cognan’s gathered insights on Mayor Lou Barletta’s bid for Congress, you can do so by clicking HERE.

On Tuesday, the nation goes to vote.  Between now and then, I will be posting a few more blog posts here, just summing up my main arguments against Mayor Barletta and why I feel he would be a poor choice to represent the 11th District in Congress.

All for now.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

Yet again, Mayor Lou Barletta is trying to pretend that he has a position on a major issue, when in fact, it would appear to almost anyone of at least average intelligence that he does not. This time the issue is the War in Iraq. Barletta, questioned about his position on the war, offered up some vague, meaningless statements that contradicted earlier statements that he made. In other words, more of the same from Lou Barletta.

In a Scranton Times article, it becomes clear that Barletta is unwilling to say anything meaningful about his position on the Iraq War. As explained in the article…

“Lou Barletta, Mr. Kanjorski’s Republican challenger in the upcoming election, won’t say now whether he would have voted for the war, even though he supported authorization of the war when he ran against Mr. Kanjorski in 2002. He wants the troops home as swiftly as possible, but favors letting military commanders decide when.

He won’t fault Mr. Kanjorski for voting for the war, although he once implied Mr. Kanjorski’s vote was politically motivated.”

The article goes on to highlight Mayor Barletta’s confusing, contradictory statements on the Iraq War, saying…

“Mr. Barletta declined to characterize the war as a mistake. In at least two interviews this year, he declined to say whether he would have voted for it.

“It would be speculating,” he said. “It might not have been they were justified to go to war in Iraq with what we know now. … Hindsight is 20-20. I’m sure many of the congressmen who voted for it regret their decision. I can’t fault him (Mr. Kanjorski), because they were acting on the information they were given.”

He notes now that he didn’t have the information Mr. Kanjorski had in deciding on what to do about Iraq, but during the 2002 campaign, he unequivocally backed the war.

“I fully support the actions called for in the joint resolution,” he said, according to an Oct. 4, 2002, campaign news release.

The mayor said the shifts in his position show he’s willing to change his mind when new information comes along.”

So Barletta is now bragging about his willingness to shift his position on important issues when “new information” comes along. Clearly, by “new information” he is referring to political opinion polls. Barletta has a history of flip-flopping on major issues in an attempt to get on the more popular side of an issue. Just look at his “position” on privatizing Social Security. He was, the last time he ran for Congress in 2002, in strong support of privatizing Social Security. Now he is saying he is adamantly opposed to it.

I find it highly insulting that Mayor Lou Barletta, who is attempting to get himself elected to the United States Congress, is unwilling to take a stand on an issue as important as the War in Iraq. Mr. Barletta wants to be elected to a position of political leadership, but he is refusing to act like a political leader. If Barletta doesn’t have the courage to even voice his opinion on the Iraq War, what can we expect from him if he actually were to get elected to the Congress? It would be a crap-shoot, at best.

Lou Barletta is political scum. He has a long and well documented track record of telling bold-faced lies. He has waffled on several major political issues facing this nation. And now he is REFUSING to take a position on the War in Iraq, a conflict that has already claimed over three thousand US lives. A vote for Lou Barletta is November is a vote for cowardice, shame, and disgrace. Mayor Barletta does not deserve to be elected to the United States Congress.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

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