Posted on 12/14/2010 12:05:28 PM PST by fatboy
HAZLETON, Pa. – A mayor whose get-tough policies on illegal immigrants attracted national attention years before the immigration debate shifted to Arizona resigned Tuesday to take a job in Congress.
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Oh, I almost forgot, Lou is my Congressman!
Congratulations. I am stuck with the RINO Charlie Dent.
MY former hometown.
Barletta should be a major plus in fighting the illegal immigration crap.
He's been fighting these battles on a local basis for years, so to him, it's real.
Dr. Ursus, I’m actually a NJ transplant to Carbon County, Lehighton Area. Lots O new republicans in the works and no more McCall at the state level.
Go Barletta!
Make his day
Barletta beat Kanjorski by almost 10 points in a district McCain lost by 15.
Very impressive!
Congrats to Barletta on his win! One of the few True Americans in congress. He has been on the front lines in the fight against Illegal Aliens and Illegal Alien Amnesty....even while the GOP refused to support him.
In my district, Lou beat Kanjorski 400 to 200 votes. I served as a poll watcher and by my count, about 200 registered democrats voted for Lou.
I remember going into town on business and realizing how beautiful it used to be...and seeing what had happened to it, as people who had no respect for anything had moved in and trashed the place. It was sad to see.
Let’s hope you get an equally good mayor to replace Barletta.
PA is a good state; dem trash trying to ruin it, as they do everywhere else.
Grew up in North Philly and saw first hand what happens when Dems get control of things...a damned criminal shame.
It WAS a great place to grow up - emphasis on “was”.
Nice town, Hazleton. I lived there for a few months with my dad, who was working on reclaiming coal tailings and turning them into electricity.
I grew up in Bensalem. Way back then, there were still Revolutionary war battlefields and houses built in the 1600s...now it’s a dive, covered in graffiti and sporting and cancerous low income housing.
I know...my old neighborhood, Olney, is sh*t now. Beautiful stone homes on Roosevelt Blvd look like POS now.
Why is that people don’t appreciate the things they have and take care of them? I grew up in a shoebox rowhome, built in 1930, but my folks took care of it as if it were a mansion...it wasn’t much, but it was what we had.
And it was Home...
This time of year, all the houses on the street would be lit up with Christmas lights; there’d be one or two that were dark, of course, but literally the entire street would be lit up.
Now? Good luck.
Everyone knew each other too. They were all WWII and Korea vets, with some old-timer WWI vets still living in the neighbrhood as well.
That’s the America and the Philly I remember as a kid.
Now, it’s a toilet, run by janitors that can’t even spell their names.
I remember Hizzoner Frank Rizzo as well; I know he was a Dem, but I don’t think anyone can say he was a socialist POS like they are now. Things WORKED. People weren’t worried about leaving their house. Now? Not so much...
I left when that paragon of intellect Wee Willie Wilson GOode bombed the batsnot out of the MOVE compound; saw that things were turning to crap and realized it was time to go.
Whoever said “You can’t go home again” had it right...
A criminal shame what they did to a once-great city.
That takes me back. I lived in an area called Cornwell's Height's from Revolutonary times. We used to hike to the Neshaminy Falls to fish in the summer, then hike back...What I loved most about the area was the beautiful stonework, from the homes to the retaining walls and even overpasses that were fitted so well they handled modern day traffic. Before moving to Bensalem, I lived in an area of Bristol that was all red brick, with maple trees lining both sides of the streets.
When we lived in Virginia, I took my kids up to Philly a few times, to the Museum of Natural History and the Zoo...we made a side trip once into neighborhoods i remembered, and it was heartbreaking to see what had been done to them.
My grandparents, both immigrants, started out in one of those rowhouses somewhere around Croydon. Yep, the neighborhood a NEIGHBORHOOD: you could trust your neighbors to stand together with you if anything hairy went down, and they could trust you. They had moved out by the early '60s though. Now you don't dare go into those areas without an armed guard.
"I left when that paragon of intellect Wee Willie Wilson GOode bombed the batsnot out of the MOVE compound; saw that things were turning to crap and realized it was time to go."
Oh wow, I remember that, though I had moved away long before he was elected. That was BAD, includng the weird racism charges. Now I live in what I call The Pennsylvania Outback, and it's peacful. The locals even made me an honorary local. Yep, you can't go back. Wild horses and all the jackbooted thugs Obama can unleash could never drag me back to live in the Philly area again.
Drive by poster.
“...Now you don’t dare go into those areas without an armed guard...”
Let’s just say that I exercise my 2nd Amendment Right everywhere I go. I WILL go wherever I choose.
You’re right about “neighborhood”. Suburbs aren’t the same as where I grew up.
Miss it a lot.
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