His hometown paper refutes previous claim of the PA GOP:

Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta denied Wednesday that he is a candidate for Congress, hours after the state Republican Party chairman said in a published report that Barletta is certain to run.

“He is putting his team together,” Rob Gleason Jr. said, the Web site for The Morning Call newspaper reported early Wednesday afternoon. “I’m counting on him to win it.”

Later in the afternoon, Gleason, Republican Party of Pennsylvania chairman, took back his claim that Hazleton’s mayor has decided to challenge U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski for the 11th Congressional District seat. He sought to clarify his remarks in a press release through the state GOP committee.