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Andy Ostrowski challenges Lou Barletta for PA’s Eleventh Congressional District seat 

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Like David vs. Goliath, Little ol’ Andy is taking on Big Lou. David, with his support system, God, had the ability and resources to accomplish what some at the time thought impossible. Andy, a Democrat, reached out to his political support, the Democratic Party and was told to back down and don’t try; in other words, withdraw. Anybody but Andy. The party even picked an Obama campaign worker, Rev. Micah Sims, to run in the primary. Ostrowski won. Shunned by his party, he is going it alone.

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Ostrowski campaign files federal civil rights lawsuit over Hazleton petitioning incident

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Andy Ostrowski, candidate for the 2014 Democratic Party nomination for Pennsylvania’s Eleventh Congressional District, will file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Hazleton on Friday, March 7, alleging First Amendment freedom of speech violations. This filing action was taken on behalf of his petitioners and campaign. The Ostrowski for Congress campaign reported to the Independent Gazette on Wednesday, March 5, that a campaign volunteer, while collecting nomination signatures for Ostrowski in Hazleton, was approached by a Hazleton police officer who claimed that, according to a Hazleton ordinance, she needed to secure a $50 permit to engage in the petitioning. When the Ostrowski worker could not produce any such documentation the police officer allegedly proceeded to seize her petition and rip it up, destroying the more than 60 signatures it contained.

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