Lou Barletta is a Bad Investment
You know that guy that stands outside the liquor store and asks you for money? He says he needs it to get a hot meal. You, however, suspect that he’s probably going to use the money for something else. And the fact that he’s drunk, has a needle sticking out of his arm, and smells of day-old urine doesn’t help his sales pitch. You know that guy? Lou Barletta is that guy.
I say this because while Barletta isn’t the slobbering drug-addled bum outside the liquor store, he does have one thing in common with the bum. They are both bad investments. Giving ten dollars to the guy who’s going to either buy cheap vodka or a hit of meth with it is a bad investment. You, as the investor get nothing out of it and the bum gets the means to stay or get high or drunk for a few more hours. And by giving that same ten dollars to Lou Barletta, you are giving it to a guy who’s up to his eyeballs in campaign debt and has a history of making bad decisions with money, both his own and tax payer money.
Lou Barletta, as far as political candidates go, is a joke. His campaign is running a massive deficit. In fact, he has more campaign debt than all of the other candidates in this race…combined. When Lou Barletta gets campaign donations, that money isn’t going to be used to fight the good fight. Most of the money that he raises isn’t going to be used for printing campaign signs or putting up billboards or airing television commercials. No, most of the that money is going to be used to pay off existing debt. And a good portion of that debt is owed to Lou Barletta himself.
A few months back, Mayor Barletta sent out a letter to potential campaign donors. This cost him $8,000. The letter asked people to give “as generously as possible.” The letter explained that Barletta really might want to run for Congress again, but had to pay down some of his existing personal debt before he could do that. If he could raise $150,000, that would be enough for him to pay his bills and take a third stab at running for Congress. Barletta didn’t get $150,000 and the money that he did receive as a result of that letter hasn’t been used to pay down anything, so far.
Lou Barletta knew he was going to run for Congress long before he sent out that letter. His personal debt wasn’t an issue. The letter was just a slick way to scare some money out of people that he might not have otherwise gotten. If paying down his campaign debt was so important to Barletta, he would have already applied the money that people sent him to that purpose. In a sense, Barletta, with that letter, became the bum. He plead poverty and promised that if you just sent him a few bucks, he could get his whole campaign back on track and become your next Congressman. Just give me a few dollars, man.
So with this in mind: Don’t give money to Lou Barletta’s campaign. He’s going to take your check, cash it, and then write out a check to himself. Because most of the “campaign debt” that he has on the books is owed to himself. In the end, not one penny of what you just gave Lou Barletta went to help make his campaign any more competitive. It either went into the Barlettas’ personal checking account or to other people whom are owed money. No, money given to Lou Barletta isn’t going to be used to finance his 2010 run for Congress. It’s going to be used to pay for the last two elections that he’s already lost.
Your money has better uses than financing past failures. If you want to give money to a Republican candidate, give it to Chris Paige. If you don’t want to do that, but still want to donate your money, give it to a charity that services the Hazleton area. But please, do not give money to Lou Barletta. If you do, the joke’s on you. Lou Barletta doesn’t deserve your charity and he certainly doesn’t deserve your vote. Lou Barletta should not be elected to Congress.
See also: Lou Barletta Tries to Re-Write History and Chris Paige on “Lou Barletta’s Hazleton”
-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com
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