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Lou has Executive Branch experience from having served as Mayor of Hazelton.
Pennsylvanians are hiring a Chief Executive.
Posted on 05/10/2022 3:07:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
In just a few days, Pennsylvania Republicans will select our gubernatorial nominee for an election that will decide the direction the Commonwealth takes for years to come. As a former small business owner, a mayor who served the people of Hazleton for a decade, and as a strong, conservative member of Congress for eight years, I have the experience to turn Pennsylvania around.
I am proven, road-tested, and ready to serve as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania and I humbly ask for your support in the Republican primary election on May 17.
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all watched as Gov. Tom Wolf wrecked our economy, deciding which businesses had to close and which could stay open. Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who will be the Democratic nominee in this race, stood silently and did nothing to help Pennsylvanians who saw their life’s work ruined when they were forced to close their businesses while large chain stores were allowed to remain open.
When I am governor, we will declare all of Pennsylvania open for business again, get government out of the way, and allow entrepreneurs to do what they do better than anyone – create jobs.
We are blessed with an enormous deposit of energy resources right beneath our feet in Pennsylvania and we must build the infrastructure necessary to access it. Having more natural gas in the ground than most countries, without the pipelines to transport it, is like being in college with a keg of beer and no tap. We will greenlight pipelines, get the natural gas to market, help drive down energy prices, and contribute to returning to American energy independence.
State government has stood in the way of economic prosperity, and it’s gotten even worse.
Gov. Wolf signed Pennsylvania onto the multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which will crush our energy workers and move their jobs to other states which are not part of the pact. As a result, workers will suffer and there won’t even be any impact on the environment. This time, Shapiro did worse than just stand idly by – he actually approved Pennsylvania’s entry into RGGI after saying he opposed it.
As governor, I will remove Pennsylvania from RGGI on my first day and rescue our economy from environmental extremists who will put thousands of our neighbors out of work.
But no community can be truly prosperous if people don’t feel safe on the streets and in their homes. As governor, I will empower police to do their jobs and give them the support and resources they need to keep our neighborhoods safe. And I will eliminate “sanctuary cities” – those jurisdictions which refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities. I have been battling illegal immigration since I was mayor of Hazleton and will keep up that fight as governor.
Our schools in Pennsylvania should be the finest in the country, and I will fight to ensure that no children are trapped in failing schools because of their zip codes. Parents will have school choice, which will improve education for countless kids, and introduce true fairness in educational opportunity.
While children are in school, parents must have access to all information about teaching materials and the curriculum, and as governor I will enforce the rights of parents to be involved. We also won’t teach our children to hate each other under the toxic Critical Race Theory, which instills hatred and mistrust based on skin color, and we will teach American history accurately. And when I am governor, we will not allow biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports.
None of this will be possible if people don’t have faith in elections and their government institutions. I will rebuild that trust by addressing election security, repealing Act 77 and no-excuse mail-in voting, requiring identification for all voters, and restoring integrity to our elections.
I am the only Republican in the field who has a history of beating Democrats, having been elected mayor in a heavily Democratic city and defeated a 26-year incumbent Democrat for Congress.
As the mayor of Hazleton, I stood on the national stage to fight illegal immigration when nobody else in the country was doing it. I have fought for our conservative values as a pro-God, pro-gun, pro-family, pro-life, and pro-America public servant.
I am proven, road-tested, and ready, and I am eager to lead the Great Pennsylvania Comeback.
You’ve got my vote, Lou.
Not looking good, Lou.
Sounds like my kind of Governor, Senator, President, Mayor, City Council, District Attorney, etc.
Hedy or Hedley?…
:)
Diametrically opposite views of Barletta, what gives?
I was wondering when someone would notice my tagline. I put it there so someone would reply... “That’s Hedley!”
LOL…
I like Hedy and Hedley…
I don't know the mindset of the posters, but it's not negatives on Barletta as much as it is a lack of positives to show his strength in the general.
Barletta has, at least for sections of Pennsylvania, not been an active campaigner thus far in the primary, and a townhall blog post isn't going to move thst needle much. He was the senate candidate against Casey (who is largely in office because elderly voters think they are voting for his dead father) in 2018 and didn't crack 45% in the polls. Since that point, I'm not sure what he did to be a better candidate or a better campaigner.
Barletta was an early and solid voice against illegal immigration, which is great as a conservative but it hasn't endeared him to the chamber of commerce types in the state party leadership. To combat that institutional weakness, he has to be stronger at the grassroots organizational level, and thus far he hasn't shown it in a way that some primary voters have seen.
I have LOU BARLETTA’S sign in my yard. He’s a good conservative with experience. Mastriano & most of the Republicans in Harrisburg naively voted for mail in voting.
Pennsylvania Ping!
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Lou has Executive Branch experience from having served as Mayor of Hazelton.
Pennsylvanians are hiring a Chief Executive.
Which of them is most likely to win the general election?
Do what you like of course, but if you go by that criteria, you are throwing your vote behind the guy that everybody wants, instead of the guy that you want.
I will be voting for Barletta, but if Mastriano wins I will gladly vote for him, but my concern with all the candidates is that they don’t answer where they stand on school/property taxes. Thousands of Pennsylvanians lose their homes every year because they can’t afford the taxes. We need to eliminate those taxes and find a better way to fund schools.
Do what you like of course, but if you go by that criteria, you are throwing your vote behind the guy that everybody wants, instead of the guy that you want.
I posed that question as a tie-breaker in the case where two equally good candidates are in the contest. The other poster had posted:
Barletta & Mastriano are good candidates. I'm asking myself who is best for the general election. It's a tough call.
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