Yesterday Lou Barletta, the Hazelton PA mayor as known to Latinos as Lou Dobbs, announced yesterday that he is riding his xenophobic wave all the way to Capitol Hill:
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP)–Mayor Lou Barletta, whose local crackdown on illegal immigration made him a national hero among those seeking tighter borders, said Thursday he will try to parlay that celebrity into a seat in Congress.
Barletta announced he will seek the Republican nomination to challenge 12-term Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski. He lost to Kanjorski by more than 13 percentage points in 2002, but the mayor’s illegal-immigration stance has raised his profile significantly since then.
“I’ve done as much as I can fighting illegal immigration as the mayor of a city,” he told The Associated Press. “I need to take this fight to Washington, because that’s where the problem needs to be fixed.”
So yeah yeah yeah, we know his chances of winning appear to be slight, but do we really nowadays? We smell the next Tom Tancredo! But until now, we’ll extend the name-your-baby-Lou-Dobbs contest to just name your baby Lou…
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