Posted on 04/23/2009 8:13:16 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Flanked by two prominent activist attorneys and backed by a throng of supporters, Minneapolis resident Rosemary Williams spent her 60th birthday in court Wednesday, resisting a lender's attempt to evict her from her foreclosed house.
She and supporters vowed that if she loses in court, they will use non-violent civil disobedience to try to block authorities from removing her from the south Minneapolis house where she's lived for 23 years.
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She took out an adjustable-rate mortgage a few years ago to get $12,000 to pay some bills. Eventually, her monthly payment jumped from $1,200 to $2,200. Meanwhile, she lost her job with an African American women's advocacy group.
she doesn't sound too bright.
Take up a collection at DFL HQ.
If she is a conservative, honest tax paying, white Christian...she deserves to be evicted!
Sorry folks but this smacks of a women in a made up job expecting the lender to give her this house. Sorry lady maybe a job with a little more stability than this is needed to buy the house.
I have no problem with them helping her but why don’t they take up a collection and let her pay off her loan if it is so important. She owes the money, she made a bad decision, she needs to pay up or lose the home, period.
She stopped making house payments, and the house went into foreclosure.
No tickee, no shirtee!
I guess she should have asked what ARM meant when she closed on her mortgage
Sounds like she knew exactly what she was doing being a life long activist
local TV wouldn’t name what group her activist, moonbat , “friends” were from...my bet is ACORN.
“My mother was an activist before she died,” said Williams. “My grandfather was one when he came out of Decatur, Alabama. It’s in my blood.”
Wonder if deadbeat runs in the blood also?
This legislative session we will place our demands on Minnesota politicians. Join the MN Coalition for a People’s Bailout in the fight for:
Jobs and income now!
Extend unemployment benefits.
Make more workers eligible for unemployment benefits.
Create a public works program that puts people to work now.
Put a moratorium on the 5-year time limit for public assistance.
No cuts to programs that serve working and low-income people!
Place a moratorium on home foreclosures!
No evictions for renters in foreclosed buildings
No attacks on immigrants!
Protect public education. No tuition hikes!
No one in Minnesota should be cold or hungry!
No layoffs!
No attacks on wages.
No layoffs for University of Minnesota workers and all public employees in Minnesota.
Tax the rich, make them pay for their crisis!
Yep Acorn with a different name
There is a stench about this one from both sides.
so she stopped making payments on her mortgage. guess she thought the government would bail her out. bet lots of folks aare doing the same thing, I mean why pay your mortgagee if you think the government is going to bail you out?
I saw that ,too. they got all kinds of free pub on tv last night. I won’t visit their site- it would make me feel dirty.
Any banker that makes a loan to someone one with no job, deserves to lose.
Meanwhile, she lost her job with an African American women’s advocacy group
Looks like she has the credentials to be the first Black Female POTUS!
even at 10%,the mortgage would on 12,000,move up 1200 a year,or 100 a month. someones facts have to be way off. if the loan was 120k,then it would make more sense.
She took out an adjustable-rate mortgage a few years ago to get $12,000 to pay some bills. Eventually, her monthly payment jumped from $1,200 to $2,200.Since this is Talk Like Shakespeare Day (its his 445th birthday), I'll say..
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.and....
Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!$1,200 for a $12,000 loan? Then it jumps to $2,200?!? The Mafia would have given her better rates!
One; two: why, then 'tis time to do't.
Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie,
Something is rotten in Minneapolis!
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