StopLouBarletta.com

Mayor Barletta:

For over a year, now, this website has stood in staunch opposition to your candidacy for a seat in the United States Congress. It is my belief that you are unfit and undeserving to represent the people of Pennsylvania in a higher office than the one, as mayor of Hazleton, that you currently hold. In two straight Congressional elections, a majority of the constituents you seek to represent have agreed, keeping you, thankfully, out of the US Congress. I am writing this open letter, addressed to you, to urge you to not, as you are currently considering, to run for a higher office.

During your tenure as mayor of Hazleton, the city has fallen deeper and deeper into a pit of debt. Much of this debt is a direct result of your “leadership.” Without prior approval from the Hazleton City Council, you racked up huge legal bills in a failed attempt to defend your “Illegal Immigration Relief Act” in Federal Court. In an effort to help pay for some of this debt, you established the Small Town Defenders website, which was supposedly meant to raise funds to help pay your legal bills, rather than forcing the Hazleton taxpayers to do so. That website hasn’t been updated since 2006, shortly after it was first established. This fact, combined with your announcement that you are, yet again, considering a run for Congress, makes it clear that you intend to leave the people of Hazleton to wallow under the mountain of debt that you dropped upon them. That, sir, is shameful and you should be embarrassed.

The people of Hazleton did not elect you to run their city into the ground and then abandon them for the bright lights of Washington. To put it bluntly, you made a mess and now you need to clean it up. It’s very telling that you eagerly raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance your own political campaigns, but can’t even maintain a website that you established to help pay for the legal bills you stuck your city with. Until you can prove, and so far you haven’t, that you are able to live up to your duties as Hazleton Mayor, I see no reason as to why you should be elected to a higher office.

Sincerely,

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

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