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HERE IS THE WEBSITE FOR FLORIDA DIVISION OF ELECTIONS

Spend lots of time navigating around the site, see who the candidates are and what races they are running in.

And, if you really want to be disgusted, NAVIGATE TO THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE WEBSITE to see how our “democracy” is really just an auction, where our rights, our liberty, our justice, our way of life is being auctioned off, in public, to the highest bidder. Not figuratively….literally…especially here in the State of Floriduh where the Governor explicitly bought his seat…

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ABOUT ALL THIS? WHY ARE PEOPLE GLUED TO THEIR TELEVISIONS AND NOT DOING SOMETHING? ANYTHING?

There will come a time when we will all live to regret very much all that we have abandoned.

YOUTUBE ANALYSIS

Next week will be a critical week in our state’s history.  The Florida House and the Florida Senate will both take up versions of the foreclosure “reform” legislation that is currently snaking its way through the Capitol.  For those of you that will be contacting your elected leaders, the only question you need to ask them is:

“Before you vote on this foreclosure bill, have you talked to judges in your district?”

This really is the only question you need to ask because any one that answers this question honestly will vote against this bill.  The bill is a grab bag of pieces and parts, not supported by legitimate facts, and will do little to address the problems asserted.

Some of the testimony made about the legislation in the various committees thus far have been entirely inaccurate or grossly misleading.  For instance, it is asserted that there is an impediment to clearing abandoned homes from the docket, and that this legislation will do something to address this alleged problem. That is flat out untrue. If a property were abandoned, whether the bank got service on all defendants or not, they could publish and get a judgment in a matter of 120 days or so using the existing laws.  To suggest that there is somehow a CRISIS that needs to be addressed with new legislation if again, FLAT OUT UNTRUE.

I urge legislators to ignore all the special interest groups that are pushing this mess forward and SPEAK TO JUDGES.  The judges are on the front lines of this PROBLEM AND THIS BILL IS NOT THE SOLUTION

FLORIDA SENATE PAGE

h0213b.EAC

richter.garrett.web@flsenate.gov, smith.chris.web@flsenate.gov,
alexander.jd.web@flsenate.gov,
bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov,fasano.mike.web@flsenate.gov,
gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov, hays.alan.web@flsenate.gov,
margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov, negron.joe.web@flsenate.gov,
oelrich.steve.web@flsenate.gov, sobel.eleanor.web@flsenate.gov

Chair:
Senator Garrett Richter (R)
Vice Chair:
Senator Christopher L. “Chris” Smith (D)
Senator JD Alexander (R)
Senator Michael S. “Mike” Bennett (R)
Senator Mike Fasano (R)
Senator Don Gaetz (R)
Senator Alan Hays (R)
Senator Gwen Margolis (D)
Senator Joe Negron (R)
Senator Steve Oelrich (R)
Senator Eleanor Sobel (D)

http://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/BI/

574 702.036 Finality of mortgage foreclosure judgment.—

575 (1)(a) In any action or proceeding in which a party seeks

576 to set aside, invalidate, or challenge the validity of a final

577 judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage or to establish or

578 reestablish a lien or encumbrance on the property in abrogation

579 of the final judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage, the court

580 shall treat such request solely as a claim for monetary damages

581 and may not grant relief that adversely affects the quality or

582 character of the title to the property,

It looks like the Florida House of Representatives will move on Wednesday, February 8 to hear the Florida (un)Fair Foreclosure Act.

The bill number currently under consideration is Committee Substitute for House Bill 213.  Please take the time to read the bill in full here.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE CLICK HERE AND CALL THESE LEGISLATORS

It is expecially important to call the chairperson Dorothy Hukill and make sure she knows this is a bad, bad bill:

Capitol Office
204 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-6653

But make sure you hit all the legislators on the committee.  They need to know that this bill it toxic and will be very, very controversial. It is still being amended and more bad news is being thrown into this every day.  The bottom line is it is a reward to the banksters that caused all this mess, paid for by the little guy.

Among the most disturbing aspects is that it would turn some foreclosures into “show cause” proceedings that could deprive a homeowner of the right to raise defenses and could result in a sale in as little as 90 days!

The bill would require some Defendants to make payments to the pretender lender as a condition of having their voice heard in court.

The bill would apply to all foreclosures currently pending

DO IT CALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE BEFORE WEDNESDAY

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ALAN GRAYSON

I’m writing that FIRE will burn in 2012. The working thesis is that all the lies and the fraud and the abuse that have been visited upon the American middle class over the last several years will finally ignite a very powerful blowback. We are just now starting to see some sparks as people wake up and begin to resist the attacks and question the prevailing political, social, economic and legal theories that are utterly unworkable in this new environment.

What’s most disturbing to me is the lack of truthful or accurate information for individuals to rely upon.  Two examples that are of particular concern to me are the National Association of Realtors and the admission that their sales numbers were completely wrong and the widely-published numbers from RealtyTrac which I think are dead wrong.  The RealtyTrac numbers always felt out of whack, but I never really dug deep into them before an article was published in the St. Petersburg Times, with the headline:

SECOND WAVE OF FORECLOSURES COMING!

But immediately after I hung up the phone with the reporter, I looked at the actual foreclosure numbers at the courthouses and found that the RealtyTrac numbers were all wrong.  Now, I don’t know the methodology or the context of the numbers, but the information was just wrong, wrong, wrong…..and this is repeated over and over again all across the country.  It was as if Paul Revere came riding through town screaming his head off like a madman but he was twelve months too early….

Which brings us to the story that ran in the Palm Beach Post yesterday, their Top Stories of 2011  Their number two story of the year is the continuing problems related to foreclosure.  Here’s the headline for 2012:

“We’re nowhere near the level of foreclosures that could be filed based on the number of loans in default.”

Florida foreclosure defense attorney Matt Weidner said in November.