Slog - Comments on Venus Velazquez: "I support an interest cap on payday loans!"

Comment by SeMe

SeMe — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:35:26 -0800

for the record i was at a meeting @ el centro de la raza where velasquez spoke out against the payday lenders and in support of the cap, and with margarita prentice and the money tree tools present . i am surprised that she took money from them. she should have turned it down. bad move. my guess is that she is getting bad advice from campaign supporter mike sotelo ( liby's husband)

Comment by Buying Access

Buying Access — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:38 -0800

No politician or aspiring politician should take money from MoneyTree - especially if they "support" a cap on predatory interest rates.

Taking money from the "Tree" smacks community activists in the face and smells bad. It also kicks activists and sane people opposed to working families paying almost %400 interest.

This is like a pro-union candidate accepting cash from Wal-Mart or Whole Foods.

Comment by Willis

Willis — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:03:40 -0800

But what cap does she support? That's the question I'd like answered.

Just saying that you support "a cap" isn't enough - specify exactly what cap you do support.

Comment by Josh Feit

Josh Feit — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:15:49 -0800

Willis @ 3,
Velazquez supported the 36% interest cap that Communities Against Payday Predators outlined in their Feb. 8, 2007 letter to the Gov. that she signed.

Comment by Gomez

Gomez — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:30:50 -0800

A candidate who takes money from conflicting interests, and then does the right thing anyway? I'm impressed.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:05:28 -0800

and I wouldn't have called her a loudmouth - or Dwight.

Comment by ivan

ivan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:30:56 -0800

Apparently some of you young 'uns never heard of Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh, who was speaker of the California Assembly in the 1960s, famous for his association with the Kennedys and his immortal quotation about lobbyists:

If you can't take their money, eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, look them in the eye and vote against them, you don't belong here.

I say hurray for Venus. Take their money. I don't know why they're giving to her, because she isn't in the Legislature and isn't running for the Legislature, but hey.

Taking money from them means dick. They give money to everybody. Slap in the face to activists, my ass. It's how you vote.

Comment by breakthecode

breakthecode — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:58:14 -0800

loudmouth? outspoken? East Coast?
Is this code for telling people what you actually think -- instead of pretending to agree with everyone and hiding what you really think, in order to be "nice"?

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