Charleroi’s GOP state senator is defending Haitian immigrants in the town as Trump’s allies continue to circulate falsehoods

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 9/22/24 | Fallon Roth

[DallasBiff]

Pennsylvania State Sen. Camera Bartolotta said she always tries to be respectful online.

That is until “someone throws crap in my face, and I push back,” she told The Inquirer Wednesday. “That’s how I’ve always been.”

When Bartolotta (R., Washington) saw Libs of TikTok, a far-right social media account whose inflammatory posts have often resulted in real-life consequences, repost a xenophobic YouTube video about Haitian immigrants in Charleroi, a small Western Pennsylvania borough that Bartolotta represents, the GOP state senator fought back against the account that she follows and often retweets.

In a response on X, Bartolotta refuted the falsehoods in Libs of TikTok’s post, including the account’s unfounded estimates that 90% of the workforce in Charleroi is composed of Haitians and that Vice President Kamala Harris “imported 2,000 Haitians” to the town that are now “taking American jobs.” The account also said there is an “operation” in Charleroi where “Haitians are being bussed to and from food factories operated by Fourth Street Foods,” a food manufacturer.

[amnestynone]

I think it was Republican when the Annenbergs ran it probably before your life time.

[Skywise]

To quote Rick and Morty - “it’s slavery with extra steps”