StopLouBarletta.com

According to the latest data available from the Federal Election Commission, Lou Barletta’s campaign is in some serious financial trouble. This really isn’t all that surprising considering that outside of his hometown of Hazleton, Barletta’s popularity shrinks dramatically. Trying to run as a Conservative Republican in a vastly Democratic District, against one of the most senior members of the House of Representatives has it’s downsides. The inability to get much money from anyone is one of the major problems that will keep Barletta from putting up any sort of effective fight in the campaign.

According to the FEC, Barletta has $154,500 on hand. He’s already spent $31,015 and has accumulated $314,912 in debt. Obviously, Lou Barletta simply can not keep going at this rate. His debt is more than double his cash on hand and as the race heats up as time goes on, this ratio will only get uglier and uglier.

What’s worse for Barletta is the fact that his opponent, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D), is having no trouble at all raising funds. According to the FEC, Kanjorski has already spent $228,171 and still has $1,835,667 in cash on hand and $0 debt. Kanjorski has already, before the primary has even taken place, spent more money than Barletta was able to raise. Additionally, when you consider how much money Kanjorski still has on hand, and how little of it Barletta has available, it doesn’t require much of an imagination to figure out how things will probably turn out for Barletta.

And, again, none of this should be a shocker to anyone. Barletta took on Kanjorski in 2002 and encountered similar failure. Additionally, almost every political analyst is predicting another bad year for Republicans in Congress, in terms of getting elected or re-elected. The current political environment, combined with Barletta’s vast shortcomings in fundraising, makes Barletta’s prospects in this election bleak at best. Lou Barletta is a poor choice for a political candidate and does not deserve, and probably will not be, elected to the United States Congress.

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

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