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Lou Barletta Doesn’t Want to Talk About Hazleton
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Jul 30, 2010 07:49pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, July 31, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If you’re Mayor Lou Barletta, the last thing you want people talking about is Hazleton. Yes, Hazleton is the city that Mayor Barletta has run since 1999. However, with the city’s finances in tatters, tax rates sky rocketing, and the highest unemployment rate in the state, Lou Barletta would much prefer if you just turned a blind eye to his city and how he’s been running it. Lou Barletta is embarrassed by Hazleton and he’s doing everything he can to not talk about the city.
* This year, he’s raised property taxes in Hazleton by 70%
* One of his first actions as mayor was to slash the police force in half
* He’s illegally taken money from the Hazleton City Pension Fund for purposes other than for what it was intended
* He’s run businesses out of town, Hazleton now has the highest unemployment rate in the state of Pennsylvania
* He’s allowed the city streets to rot and fall apart. I get emails every day from people blasting the mayor over the condition of Hazleton roads and his refusal to fix them.
* He’s accepted political donations from convicted drug dealers, and then defended these scumbags as “hard working citizens.”
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