Archive for April 19th, 2008
This is commonsense.
Sign the Petition to Congress
WHEREAS: Most Americans rent or own their home outright, and the vast majority of homes (98%) are not in foreclosure.
WHEREAS: Both banks and borrowers should be reponsible for their actions, and the government should not reward reckless behavior.
WHEREAS: It is wrong to force all taxpayers– including renters who are already subsidizing home owners through the tax code– to pay for additional bailouts for big banks and home flippers.
BE IT RESOVED: That Congress should not pass any bailout programs that reward risky borrowing and lending. Let the free market sort it out!
Sign here: Angry Renter: Oppose the Mortgage Lender Housing Bailout
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I’ve oftentimes criticized that phrase for being meaningless in a political campaign. Especially when the person using it lacks substantive, meaningful positions.
Jon Powers, the former Army captain and Iraq War veteran running for Congress, will reimburse the $4,000 he charged his campaign for renting his home as his campaign office, his campaign manager says.
“The campaign may not pay for mortgage, rent or utilities for the personal residence of the candidate or the candidate’s family even if part of the residence is being used by the campaign,” according to the Federal Election Commission’s campaign guide for congressional candidates.
It looks like Jon Powers’ chickens have come home to roost. Here’s his campaign in a nutshell:
Powers’ campaign of “leadership by example” is about listening to everyday Western New Yorkers, meeting our challenges, and providing reasonable, cost-effective solutions to the problems that impact real people in their daily lives.
Politicians violating the law is not the type of example we need our elected officials to follow.
The Buffalo News: City & Region: Powers to pay back money received from campaign to rent his house
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And why aren’t parents allowed school choice for their children? Oh, wait, there are no good answers to that question.
A school bus fight, mostly among girls from a city elementary school, spilled onto an East Side street Thursday afternoon, and when adults arrived, at least four shots rang out and two were injured, Buffalo police said Friday.
Here’s the good part.
“Once the bus stopped and the students were off, some way, somehow, the altercation continued with family members and other people in and around the bus stop,” said Mychajliw, a spokesman for School Superintendent James A. Williams.
The adults apparently were notified of the disturbance by cell phone calls from the pupils on the bus.
One unidentified man fired four rounds in the direction of the bus, although no one was hit, police reported.
“According to the students on the bus, the gunshots were fired from like a football field away, about 100 yards,” Mychajliw said.
During the fight, at least two people were injured; a 26-year-old man was slashed in the back with a knife or box cutter, and a 33-year-old woman was punched in the face three times, police reports indicated.
No arrests have been made, according to police, and there were no reports of anyone being hospitalized from the fight.
Wake up people, public schools are dysfunctional and parents need the freedom to determine where to educate their children.
