The bleeding hearts always know, er, feel more than the rest of us.
Illinois sheriff scolds banks for evictions of ‘innocent’ renters
Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said earlier he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago.
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Many good tenants are suffering because building owners have fallen behind on their mortgage payments, he said Thursday on CNN’s “American Morning.”
“These poor people are seeing everything they own put out on the street. … They’ve paid their bills, paid them on time. Here we are with a battering ram at the front door going to throw them out. It’s gotten insane,” he said.
Mortgage companies are supposed to identify a building’s occupants before asking for an eviction, but sheriff’s deputies routinely find that the mortgage companies have not done so, Dart said.
“This is an example where the banking industry has not done any of the work they should do. It’s a piece of paper to them,” Dart said.
Dart is a Democrat, so he has the anti-corporate mentality down perfectly.
“These mortgage companies … don’t care who’s in the building,” Dart said Wednesday. “They simply want their money and don’t care who gets hurt along the way.
These mortgage companies also own the property. How do you know what they “care” about?
The Illinois Bankers Association opposed the plan, saying that Dart “was elected to uphold the law and to fulfill the legal duties of his office, which include serving eviction notices.”
The association said Dart could be found in contempt of court for ignoring court eviction orders.
“The reality is that by ignoring the law and his legal responsibilities, he is carrying out ‘vigilantism’ at the highest level of an elected official,” it said. “The Illinois banking industry is working hard to help troubled homeowners in many ways, but Sheriff Dart’s declaration of ‘martial law’ should not be tolerated.”
Dart was undeterred Thursday.
“I think the outrage on my part with them [is] that they could so cavalierly issue documents and have me throw people out of homes who have done absolutely nothing wrong,” Dart said. “They played by all the rules.”
This is what occurs when people act with their emotions and not with their heads.
I DO sympathize greatly with people who are victims of a landlord’s irresponsibility.
However, has Dart considered that his actions also adversely affect real people in the mortgage industry? Don’t they also need to make a living? Don’t they need jobs and money to pay their mortgages also?
While Dart may technically be correct, (1) the law is not his to mold to his liking, and (2) property rights are among the most important we have. That he is disregarding the law and the rights of others is outrageous.
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