Bill Would Privatize Evictions In Illinois - Rebecca Burns Discusses

[matthewf]

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Holy shit, all the house co-sponsors are Democrats!

Rep. Monique D. Davis - Robert Rita - Anthony DeLuca, Charles E. Jefferson, Lawrence M. Walsh, Jr., Jerry F. Costello, II, Katherine Cloonen, Brandon W. Phelps and Patrick J. Verschoore

They're mostly downstate and this bill would initially only apply to Cook County but it will spread.
For those outside of Cook County, Sherriff Tom Dart was a bit of a hero a few years ago when the foreclosure crisis hit by refusing or delaying to carry out evictions. No doubt this is meant to prevent such showings of initiative in the future.
More info at http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24208-what-will-privatizing-evictions-do-to-people-in-illinois

[ancianita]

2. The Dems are a craven capitalist bunch here. Davis, the bill sponsor, is a landlord herself who

wants to be able to hire their own security officers -- since Tom Dart has stalled evictions on humanitarian grounds -- to remove renters no matter what the winter weather conditions.

Davis enrages me, since she went in on christian endorsements but is now some self-serving capitalist IL Democrat trying to take another rip on the social contract's decency clause. Her disregard for Jesus' Second Great Commandment should piss of both Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan, her endorsers.

Moreover, the state or federal constitutionality of this is questionable.

Her bill is not law yet. But such a bill never should have gotten out of committee.

[DeSwiss]

3. Democrats, huh?

- If these asshats are the good guys, well fuck it!

K&R

And you can bet each and everyone was bought cheap.