StopLouBarletta.com

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

I’ve been saying for quite a while now that Mayor Lou Barletta is not a serious candidate for Congress.  The latest fund raising numbers support that claim.  According to FEC filings, Barletta raised about $68,000 in cash.  That number might seem not all that bad, until you consider that $48,000 of that is Barletta’s own money.  Additionally, he now only has about $6,000 of cash on hand and has an accumulated debt of $110,000.  Lou Barletta’s campaign finances are about as troubled as those of the city that he runs.

A key indicator of a candidate’s popularity, and political viability, is his or her ability to raise funds.  Lou Barletta and his people love to walk around and claim that he is the darling of the Republican Party and that he’s the next political superstar and blah blah blah.  However, if Lou Barletta is such a political powerhouse, why is he struggling to raise cash?  If people love Lou Barletta so much, why aren’t they donating to his campaign?  If it’s true that numbers don’t lie, then Lou Barletta is much less popular and enjoys far less support than he’d like to admit.

Also, keep in mind that struggling to raise campaign cash has always been a problem for Barletta’s Congressional campaigns.  This is due in large part to the fact that while he is more popular than Jesus in his hometown of Hazleton, Barletta’s popularity begin to fall off rapidly the farther away he moves from the city.  So while Barletta’s congressional opponents (especially Paul Kanjorski) raise cash from all across the district, Barletta’s money comes from three major sources: 1. Himself 2. Citizens of Hazleton and 3. Loans.  This small cash base goes a long way toward putting Barletta at a strategic disadvantage with almost everyone else in this race.

Finally, Barletta is probably also struggling to raise funds due to potential donors not wanting to throw more money at a dead horse.  In two consecutive Congressional elections, against the same opponent, Barletta has come up short.  And now that he’s making a third attempt at it, many people who are looking to donate to a candidate have to be wondering if Lou Barletta has become a bad investment.  Republicans, and even quite a few Democrats, are eager to get Paul Kanjorski out of office.  However, there is serious doubt about whether Lou Barletta is the candidate capable of accomplishing that.

The saying of, “Something is only as valuable as someone is willing to pay for it,” comes to mind, here.  If the candidates in this race were items in a store, Lou Barletta would be on the clearance rack, right alongside the VHS cassettes and Christmas decorations.  His inability to raise cash combined with his huge (and growing) debt make him extremely unattractive to potential donors.  This, in turn, makes Lou Barletta a weak candidate and a poor choice for voters looking for someone with the ability to mount a serious challenge to Paul Kanjorski.  Lou Barletta has wasted enough voter money.  It’s time to leave him by the wayside and move along to bigger and better things.

See also: For $250,000, Lou Barletta Might Run for Congress and Barletta Accepts Money from Drug Dealers

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

Deciding whether or not to run for Congress is a hard decision.  Mayor Lou Barletta has been on the fence about his to decision to make a third attempt to win a seat in the US House of Representatives.  For weeks, he has speculated that he might run, or, y’know, he might not.  Recently, however, Barletta sent out a donation letter to supporters, explaining to them that if they sent him lots and lots of money, he would be more likely than not to run.

According to the letter (a copy of which can be found HERE), Lou Barletta needs to pay off his existing debt from his previous two campaigns before he is willing to make a third try at Congress.  The best part of all of this is that most of this debt is owed to Lou Barletta.  See, Barletta “loaned” himself money to go to his Congressional campaigns.  And while the fund raising letter doesn’t specifically say which debts are to be paid, it can be safely assumed that most of it will be used to re-fill Lou Barletta’s personal checking account.  If this is legal…it shouldn’t be.

As the letter explains…

“I need your help now.

Last year, you and I battled one of the most liberal pro-amnesty Congressmen and almost won.  Even with President Obama’s tremendous margin of victory, our race was one of the closest in the nation.

However, I need your help once again – to retire the debt of the last campaign.  If you’d be so kind to consider giving your most generous contribution possible, my family would really appreciate it.

For your convenience, I’ve enclosed an envelope or you can go to www.loubarletta.com and contribute online.

I’m hoping you’re still as concerned as I am about the continuing problems that illegal aliens are bringing to our communities.”

So let me get this straight.  By sending Barletta and “his family” as much money “as possible”, we are somehow helping him make our communities a better place?  Keep in mind, he doesn’t say whether he will actually run or not, regardless of how much money he raises.  Essentially, Barletta is begging for money and hinting that if all of us send him enough of our hard earned money (earned in one of the worst economic environments in US history), he would be more likely to run for Congress again.  And probably fail, again.

At this point, Lou Barletta has become a life-sucking leech.  He complains about how much money is being wasted on supporting illegal immigrants.  But how much money is being wasted supporting Barletta’s bumbling ass?  This letter makes it sound like Lou Barletta is the savior that the American people have been waiting for and, for the low low price of $250,000, this savior might actually run for Congress again.  If anything, this letter makes it painfully clear that Lou Barletta doesn’t have a shot in hell at winning any election (except maybe another term as Hazleton’s mayor, as they seem to enjoy getting screwed by him) anytime soon.

Lou Barletta is not a serious candidate.  He is, by now, a political joke.  Why should people pay a man to consider a run at political office?  If Lou Barletta was really serious about making our communities better, as he claims, then he would eat that debt, most of which is owed to himself, and run.  And if running for political office is putting such a burden on his finances and on his family, then he shouldn’t run.  The voters have said, twice and in consecutive elections, that they do not want Lou Barletta to represent them in Congress.  Barletta is obviously too stupid to know when he’s not wanted and that is his problem, although he’d like all of us to finance it.  Lou Barletta should not be elected to US Congress.

See also: Lou Barletta Still in the Hole and Barletta Accepts Money from Drug Dealers

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

Lou Barletta might run for Congress.  Or maybe he won’t.  He probably won’t run for Lt. Governor.  And he might stay on as Mayor of Hazleton.  Barletta, it seems, is keeping all of his options open.  In the meantime, however, all we can do is speculate about Barletta’s aspirations for higher office.

Local blogger Gort42 recently caught up with Mayor Barletta and asked him a few questions about his political future….

The last time I talked to you, I got the impression you were running for Lt. Governor.  What happened to that?

“I want to be in a position to affect change and that is not an office that would let me do that.”

Are you going to run for Congress again?

“I haven’t ruled it out and I’m very seriously looking at the race.”

Has your Congressional campaign committee raised any money this quarter?

“Very little, just trying to retire the debt.”

When I talked to you in your office last January it was obvious that you love being the Mayor of Hazelton.

“Staying Mayor is not out of the question.”

So, it would seem that Mayor Barletta hasn’t made up his mind yet.  Or perhaps he has and just isn’t ready to announce it, yet.  The fact that Barletta says that he has done “very little” fund raising so far and is only looking to get rid of existing debt, I think, is very telling.  If Barletta were seriously considering running for Congress, wouldn’t he be actively raising funds?  Also, Barletta has always had a hard time raising money, so it’s not like he can just go out and raise a few hundred thousand dollars at the drop of a hat.  If Barletta doesn’t begin actively raising campaign funds soon, it can probably be assumed that he will not be running for Congress.

What’s worse for Barletta is that if he does decide to run, he will have an opponent in the GOP Primary.  Chris Paige, a Republican out of Skytop, PA, has announced that he will be running in the election and has already come out firing against Barletta.  This means, unlike last year, Barletta will have to not only fight (and spend money) in the General Election, but also in the Primary.  Considering Barletta’s ineptness at fund raising and his existing debt from his previous campaigns, Barletta will surely face an uphill battle if he does decide to run for Congress.

And that, in my opinion, is as it should be.  Barletta has proven, repeatedly, that he is unfit to serve in the US Congress.  He has drilled the city of Hazleton into the dirt.  He has been endorsed by convicted drug dealers and members of the KKK.  And he has used his stump issue of illegal immigration to mask the fact that he has no positions on any other major issue.  Lou Barletta is undeserving to represent the Republican Party or the people of the 11th Congressional District.  He would be well advised to keep his current job in Hazleton.

See also: Who is Chris Paige?

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

It is a fact of political life in US politics: If you can’t raise money, you can’t win the election.  Now, people can debate the fairness of this, but when it comes right down to it, it is what it is.  Yes, there have been a handful of cases where the candidate with little campaign cash has defeated a much better financed opponent.  However, those cases are clearly the exception to the rule.  I mention this only because, once again, Mayor Lou Barletta is considering running for the US House of Representatives and, once again, he is struggling to raise campaign money.

As reported on the always informative Gort42 Blog…

“Paul Kanjorski (D) has better than $600,000 in the bank with a big chunk of his latest take coming from banks, insurance companies and labor unions. His prospective opponent is Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta who reports $4,000 cash on hand and $263,000 in debt from his last 2 failed campaigns to become the Congressman from the 11th CD. Barletta only raised about $3500 and loaned his campaign $48,500.”

Aside from the basic financial importance of campaign fundraising, a candidates ability to raise money is also an indication that candidate’s political strength.  The fact that Lou Barletta is still unable to pay off the debt from his previous two congressional campaigns doesn’t really speak well to his chances of being able to unseat a very well financed incumbent.  The Republican Party, if it is serious about picking off Paul Kanjorski, needs to move past Lou Barletta and find a candidate who can actually raise campaign money and run a competitive race.  The simple fact of the matter is that while Lou Barletta may be very popular in certain political circles, he has proven incapable of leveraging that popularity into actual campaign cash or, for that matter, a political victory at the polls.

And aside from Barletta’s political financial woes, he has also shown an inability to keep the city he was elected to govern, Hazleton, in the black.  In 2006, the city of Hazleton ran a deficit of $158,867.  In 2007, that deficit ballooned to $655,347.  And while the official numbers for FY 2008 have yet to be released, it’s safe to assume that the deficit has, once again, gone up.  Also, please keep in mind that these deficits don’t take into account the whole Pension Fund debacle, so if that is taken into account, these deficit numbers only get bigger.  And, as admitted by Mayor Lou Barletta, Hazleton is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Considering all of this, I find it mind boggling as to why 1.) Lou Barletta continues to entertain the prospect of running, again, for the US Congress and 2.) Why anyone (aside from Paul Kanjorski and other Democrats) would want Lou Barletta to run for the US Congress.  Financially, Barletta is a train wreck.  His political campaign is running on fumes and his city is on life support.  The Republican Party must field a candidate who, you know, can actually raise campaign money and win a race.  And while it would be mildly entertaining to see Barletta flop around on the political stage, once again, and make an ass out of himself, once again, I would much rather see a strong Republican candidate actually run a successful campaign and get elected to office.  Lou Barletta should read the tealeaves, the writing on the wall, and the numbers on his campaign’s bank account statements and NOT run for the US House of Representatives.  He can’t afford it (literally) and neither can the Republican Party.

See also: For $250,000, Barletta Might Run for Congress

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

What do you do if you’re a Congressional candidate and honest, law abiding citizens won’t give you any money to help fund your campaign?  Take it from dirty, sleazy criminals and former criminals!  That’s exactly what Lou Barletta is doing.  In addition to accepting $2,000 from two men who were involved in a cocaine distribution ring, Mayor Barletta has also accepted campaign donations from Senator Ted Stevens (R – Alaska).

Senator Stevens, for those that don’t know, was recently indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for accepting gifts and kickbacks from lobbyists.  Stevens is the first US Senator to be indicted, for anything, since 1993.  Senator Stevens is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from oil lobbyists.  He is also under investigation for sponsoring fishing legislation that may have been used to help his son, who is also a lobbyist.

To quote CBS News…

“From May 1999 to August 2007, prosecutors said, the 84-year-old senator concealed “his continuing receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things of value from a private corporation.”

The indictment unsealed Tuesday says the items included: home improvements to his vacation home in Alaska, including a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing, electrical wiring; as well as a Viking gas grill, furniture and tools. He also was accused of failing to report swapping an old Ford for a new Land Rover to be driven by one of his children.

Prosecutors said Stevens received more than $250,000 in gifts and services from VECO Corp., a powerful oil services contractor, and its executives.”

Mayor Lou Barletta has accepted $1000 from the Northern Lights Political Action Committee (PAC), a PAC that is run by Senator Ted Stevens.  Naturally, Representative Paul Kanjorski, Barletta’s opponent, has called on Barletta to give the money back.  And, predictably, the Barletta camp has so far refused.  Just like they’ve refused to give back the $2,000 that they’ve accepted from the DiAngelo brothers, who were both involved, extensively, with the Empire Drug Ring.

And why won’t Mayor Barletta give this dirty money back?  Well, I think it comes down to two reasons.  First, Lou Barletta is perfectly comfortable with accepting money from criminals.  Otherwise, you know, he would give the money back.  But he hasn’t.  Second, Mayor Barletta can’t afford to give the money back.  His campaign is hurting for money and he needs every single penny he can get his hands on.  Desperate people will do desperate things, I suppose.

All of this leads to one conclusion: Lou Barletta has no business being elected to the United States Congress.  He has shown a total disregard for anything resembling ethical behavior and his campaign is already tainted with dirty money from people who have been indicted, and in some cases, convicted of major criminal offenses.  With all of his ties to criminals, Lou Barletta should not be elected to the United States Congress.

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

Mayor Lou Barletta, who is running for Congress against Representative Paul Kanjorski, has accepted $2,000 is campaign donations from two men who were once involved with a Luzerne County cocaine ring.  According to FEC campaign donation records, and as reported by the Citizens Voice, the Barletta campaign has accepted $1,000 each from Paul and Neal DeAngelo.  Worse, Barletta says he has no intention of giving the money back.

As reported by the Citizens Voice…

“The list of contributors to Republican congressional candidate Lou Barletta includes two brothers who were once entangled in a southern Luzerne County cocaine-distribution ring but are now prominent businessmen there.

Paul and Neal DeAngelo, the owners of DBiServices Inc., each gave Barletta $1,000 on March 28.

In 1994, Paul DeAngelo was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his role in the Empire drug ring, which operated in the late 1980s. He was released in 1995.

As a government witness in the trial of another ring member, Neal DeAngelo, who was not charged, testified that Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan called him in 1986 to say Paul DeAngelo was doing business with a cocaine dealer who was being investigated. The judge, according to the testimony, offered to put them in touch with a Florida dealer, Neal DeAngelo testified.”

Despite all of this, Mayor Lou Barletta says he has no plans on giving any of the money back.  In fact, showing flashes of his famous temper, Barletta blasted his opponent, Paul Kanjorski, for “shopping the story around to reporters.”  He then went on to defend these two men, saying…

“These two guys (the DeAngelos) made a mistake,” Barletta said. “They paid their dues and through honest, hard work they built a business that is one of the biggest in Hazleton.

Paul Kanjorski wants to drag these guys through the mud,” Barletta said. “Paul Kanjorski should be trying to get more companies like DBi to our area.”

So, in addition to slashing the Hazleton Police Force in half, resulting in a massive surge in crime, Mayor Lou Barletta is also accepting campaign donations from men who have been involved with cocaine distribution.  And when confronted with this information, he then defends these men and their character and refuses to give any of the money back.  Oh, and how dare Paul Kanjorski even bring this up?

Lou Barletta is a career liar.  He has run Hazleton into the ground.  His police force cuts have resulted in massive crime spikes.  Businesses are closing, on a regular basis, in Hazleton.  Many former storefronts are now sitting empty.  The city is being squeezed by legal bills incurred as a result of Mayor Barletta’s failed attempt to defend his extremist immigration policy in court.  And on top of it all, he is taking money from men who admitted to being involved with a drug trafficking operation.

This is why I am sickened to see Lou Barletta represent the Republican Party in this election.  Barletta is a disgrace of a man, an embarrassment to both Hazleton and the Republican Party, and a joke of a congressional candidate.  Clearly, Lou Barletta should not be elected to the United States Congress.

See also: For $250,000, Lou Barletta Might Run for Congress and Barletta Struggling to Raise Funds

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

Lou Barletta, over the past couple of days, has issued a whole bunch of press releases calling his opponent, Representative Paul Kanjorski, “desperate.”  Every time Kanjorski runs a television ad or holds a town hall meeting or has campaign workers make phone calls to voters, Barletta starts screaming and ranting about how “desperate” Kanjorski must be.  All of this leads me to believe that Barletta is, in fact, the desperate one.

Consider the following, if you would:

• Lou Barletta is struggling to raise any money, while Kanjorski is absolutely rolling in it.  Kanjorski has well over $2 million in cash and $0 in debt.  Barletta, on the opposite end of the spectrum, has $321,895 in cash and $321,340 in debt.  Enron had a more solid balance sheet than that.
• Kanjorski has aired at least three separate television commercials already.  Barletta, unable to afford any television time, has put up a bunch of YouTube videos.  Additionally, Barletta, in “desperation”, has sent letters to all of the local television stations, demanding them to stop airing Kanjorski’s commercials.
• Almost all of Lou Barletta’s campaign money has come from residents of the city of Hazleton, the very city that Lou Barletta is mayor of.  Once that city is bled dry of money, one has to wonder where Barletta will get his cash from.  Because it doesn’t appear that very many other people are stepping up to the plate.
• Vince Galko, Lou Barletta’s campaign manager, has managed to loose every single election he’s been a part of.  Bob Dole’s Presidential bid.  Rick Santorum’s last run at the Senate against Bob Casey, Jr.  Rudy Giuliani’s bid at the Republican presidential nomination.

So, as you can see, if anyone is “desperate”, it is Lou Barletta.  He is desperate for money.  He is desperate for a campaign manager that knows what the hell he’s doing.  He is desperate for Paul Kanjorski to stop running television ads.  Lou Barletta is desperate for a miracle.

Clearly, Mayor Lou Barletta is trying to convince everyone that he is playing from a position of strength in this campaign, while the stone cold facts of the matter clearly show that he is the weaker of the two candidates.  This is just one more example of how bad of a candidate Lou Barletta is and how little he knows about running for Congress.  Lou Barletta should not be elected to the United States Congress.

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

The latest Federal Election Comittee (FEC) financial filings are now available.  According to the data, Lou Barletta’s congressional campaign is barely keeping their heads above water.  Worse yet for the Hazleton Mayor, Representative Paul Kanjorski, his challenger, is now swimming in money.  Clearly, Barletta is finding it difficult to raise funds.

According to the new data, Barletta’s finanical situation breaks down like this…

• $196,549 paid out already
• $321,895 cash on hand
• $321,340 outstanding debt

Compare this with his opponent’s situation…

• $323,129 paid out already
• $2,174,387 cash on hand
• $0 outstanding debt

So, as you can see, Barletta is in trouble.  Without even going into debt, Paul Kanjorski can spend more than four times as much as Barletta.  What this means is that, as the campaign goes on, Lou Barletta will find it more and more difficult to stay competitive.  And, honestly, this isn’t the least bit surprising.

The truth of the matter is that Lou Barletta, while considered a near demigod in Hazleton, isn’t very popular outside of his home city.  As proof of this, just take a look at where the individual campaign donations he’s receiveing are coming from.  Most of the money is coming from Hazleton.  People may cheer Barletta when he walks in a parade in Scranton or another part of the district, but almost none of those people are willing to give him money.

This is because most people realize that Mayor Lou Barletta is a bad investment.  On the issues that are important to people, Barletta is weak, to say the least.  He’s already pulled a flip-flop on the issue of privitizing Social Security and didn’t even release official statements on where he stands on other issues until just last month.  Add in the fact that he’s already run this race before (he ran against Paul Kanjorski, in the same district, in 2002) and lost.  There is no reason to believe this time will be any different.

Lou Barletta is a weak candidate, would make a horrible Congressman, and does not deserve to be elected to higher office.

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

In a press release, Mayor Lou Barletta brags about the fact that he was able to raise over $500,000 for his Congressional campaign.  In the release, Barletta mentions the support he received from several people.  The retired Pennsylvania woman.  The elderly VA Hospital patient.  But he doesn’t mention, to no ones surprise, the support he’s received from his other friends.

Like David Duke, one of the nation’s most notorious racist leaders.  Mr. Duke is an avid Lou Barletta supporter, and has issued a formal endorsement of Mayor Barletta.  Duke is a former Ku Klux Klan leader and has written a book entitled Jewish Supremacism.  What does it say about Lou Barletta that David Duke, one of the most despicable men in America, supports Barletta for Congress?  Nothing good.

And then there’s the Eagle Forum, one of the most insane political action committees in existence.  Several weeks ago, the Eagle Forum came out in full support of Lou Barletta.  Among other things, the Eagle Forum is in favor of such fun ideas as passing laws granting immunity to men who rape their wives, illiminating Federal funding for child care, and taking sex education classes out of public schools.  This is the America that they want and they believe that Barletta is their man to help them achieve it.

Yes, Lou Barletta has raised over $50,000.  However, how much of that money has come from bigots, racists, and extremists?  No one will ever know the answer to that question.  It won’t show up on any FEC report.  However, if the Ku Klux Klan and the Eagle Forum support Lou Barletta, do we really want him in the halls of Congress?  I think not.

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