No need to scrape the name off that door anytime soon
“Oh, no, Pennsylvania doesn’t have an immigration problem.”
Really?
Not only did Hazleton, Penn. mayor Lou Barletta win the nomination from his own Republican party for another term, he also won the town’s Democratic nomination. Enough of the town’s Democrats gave him write-in votes such that he dispatched the top contending Democrat, who himself was a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the city’s immigration ordinances.
This is in a town where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2-1 margin, and where two Hispanics lost in their primary bids for seats on the Hazleton City Council, one of whom is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the City. Barletta won 94% of the Republican vote, and 61% of Democrats’ votes.
Perhaps Mayor Barletta might want to consider a new and better job about an hour-and-a-half to the southwest along I-81, in another Pennsylvania town that begins with “H.” I understand that it’ll come open in 2010.
[...] of his winning both Republican and Democrat primaries in his bid to win re-election as mayor, I wrote: Perhaps Mayor Barletta might want to consider a new and better job about an hour-and-a-half to the [...]