Bruce Shoemaker wrote:
If Natalie Johnson Lee is supposedly so beholden to landlords/property
rights interests, why did she, and not Don Samuels, get endorsed by
ACORN?
ACORN makes the following boasts for their work in Minneapolis:
+Community Reinvestment Act. Banks are required to make home buying
possible for low and moderate income residents of Minneapolis through
lending practices. (Fannie Mae is one solution.)
+HUD reform making it easier for low and moderate income people in
Minneapolis to buy HUD houses
+carrying the weight in the push for living wage jobs
+cleanup of toxic chemicals in Minneapolis
+support of anti drug efforts in Minneapolis
All of those efforts would be helpful to the Fifth Ward. If Ms. Johnson
Lee is connecting the ward to these efforts, presuming that ACORN would
only endorse her if she were so doing, then that is much more impressive
than opening one's own house to kids from other families. Families who
buy houses are stabilizing their lives profoundly.
WizardMarks, Central
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