http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/10/1448354/-Michigan-mayor-refused-to-hear-eviction-pleas-ended-meeting-so-council-could-get-to-pizza-party?detail=email
Garden City, Michigan residents appeared at a city council meeting where they expected to make a plea to avoid eviction after a series of unfortunate events:
The controversy arose because Garden City, like several suburbs, acquired tax-foreclosed homes from Wayne County this summer before they were offered on public auction. The homes were then sold to a developer who plans to flip them for profit, forcing evictions of longtime homeowners, with the goal of preventing blight and discouraging absentee landlords.
Garden City Mayor Randy Walker, who was recently re-elected, refused to hear their pleas because it was a happy meeting and they didn’t want anyone to bring down the good vibes:
Garden City’s mayor says he didn’t allow residents who lost their homes to address the City Council on Monday because a pizza party was planned after the meeting.
“It’s a happy occasion,” Walker said. “We had food waiting. We had pizza coming out of the oven at 7:45 (p.m.).”
Residents say they had no idea the county had bought and sold their homes until they got the eviction notices from the developer.
“We have nowhere to go,” said 30-year-old Andrea Rowe, crying after the meeting as she held her 9-month-old daughter Mia in the audience.
Rowe could lose the home she is living in and her mom, Paula Newcomb, could lose hers as well. Both homes have been in their family for 60 years. They fell behind on taxes after several family deaths, including Rowe’s 7-month-old son in 2011, and job losses.
you can see from the video of the council meeting, they only had time for 25-minutes of congratulatory speeches and two long prayers from a local minister.
Attorney Tarek Baydoun is representing the homeowners and plans on filing a complaint with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. After being in these homes for 60 years, let’s hope the Mayor has the good sense to hold off on the next pizza party and get to work keeping these families in their homes.
checkout the link click the subtopics to the right than try to figure how this guy kept getting elected it may remind you of Michelle Bachmann. i see one Black women seated at the table wonder how she votes and if she gets a good nights sleep in her home????
