Here’s hoping mattinpa hasn’t eaten his breakfast yet…
He certainly sounds like the kind of person who should represent the state that holds the Liberty Bell, where Valley Forge is located and the Battle of Gettysburg took place, and where the passengers of Flight 93 exhibited their supreme courage.
My appetite’s fine! It’s going to be a long year for Trump allies in general and many Trump-linked candidates in particular but hey, it’s their lives, you know? The Pride of Hazleton is welcome to run and see how he does. The state-level Democratic folks are already banging him over the head with his anti-ACA votes.
Yeah, he is so concerned about serving the country – on a silver platter to the 0.1%.
I have to imagine that anyone aligning with Trump harbors the slim, cynical hope that when DJT’s takeover is complete, they will be seen as loyal servants of the King.
Otherwise, it’s like boarding a flaming bus.
In 2006, Barletta made headlines for his efforts opposing illegal immigration in Hazleton vowing to make the city “one of the toughest places in the United States” for illegal immigrants Barletta introduced and the city council approved the Illegal Immigration Relief Act. The ordinance allowed the city to deny a business permit to employers who hired illegal immigrants and gave the city authority to fine landlords up to $1,000 for leasing to illegal immigrants. The act also made English the official language of Hazleton, prohibiting city employees from translating documents into any language without official authorization.
Non-xenophobes need not apply to the GOP Senate.So there’s an open seat for 2018.
HE looks like the Homeless Golden Voice guy.
Sounds like a good sci-fi story: To Serve Pennsylvania
Most famous for hating the Latino immigrants (from elsewhere in the NE. and from south of the border) that revived his dying coal town.
I’m in Philly. My appetite hasn’t been too great, but thank you for improving it a bit, today.
Honestly I couldn’t give you a read on Barletta’s chances versus Casey. I just think it’s optimistic of Barletta to see Trump supporterhood as a net positive statewide. Even among supporters, Trump’s numbers are trending down, and the problem isn’t external, it’s the chaos he can’t help but generate himself. That makes me optimistic that Casey won’t have a problem. The key thing is to knock off Toomey. Got pretty close last time. And he’s such a weaselly, tapioca-souled nonentity.
Anchored to Trump like drywall to a stud.
Good luck with that, bitch.
“Tapioca-souled”. LOL! That’s perfect for that despicable festering boil Toomey.
I’m sending that one to Merriam-Webster.
I humbly thank you. 
The greater glory be to Toomey himself for being so inspirationally contemptible.
Great! Another House seat the Dems will pickup in 2018.
RUN FOR OFFICE!!!
In 2008 or so, both GOP Reps ran for their nomination for an open Senate seat. Both lost. That was the year that there were only Dem Reps in NM!
May Pennsylvania be so lucky!
Cook rates it R+10. Yet another district where a GOP vacancy could give a good Democrat a chance. I hope the Dem Party is able to contest every seat R+12 or below,
Probably not:
Before the 2012 election, it was widely expected that the state legislature would gerrymander Barletta’s district to make it safer for him. President Barack Obama carried the old 11th with 57%.The new map, as expected, significantly altered the 11th. Heavily Democratic Scranton and Wilkes-Barre were shifted to the 17th District. To make up for the loss of population, the 11th absorbed some heavily Republican territory to the north and south that had previously been in the neighboring 5th, 10th, 17th and 19th districts, pushing it as far south as the suburbs of Harrisburg. The new district is approximately ten points more Republican than its predecessor. Had it existed in 2008, President Obama would have only won 47 percent of the vote here to John McCain’s 51 percent. It appeared that the legislature wanted to protect Barletta by packing as many of northeast Pennsylvania’s Democratic voters into the 17th as possible.
Barletta won reelection with 58 percent of the vote.
Courtesy WIKI