{"id":3903,"date":"2019-10-31T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:11:00","slug":"another-terrible-tuesday-afternoon-at-city-council-holding-vice-mayor-cummings-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/another-terrible-tuesday-afternoon-at-city-council-holding-vice-mayor-cummings-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Terrible Tuesday Afternoon at City Council–Holding Vice-Mayor Cummings Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"
A long line of speakers urged faster action to protect Section 8 tenants in the last months of the year at Tuesday’s Special City Council meeting. I summarized in accusatory terms Vice-Mayor Cummings record in siding with the reactionary Watkins majority on tenant and homeless issues. Brown supported a Mathews weakening of the Just Eviction protection emergency measure, and the Council caved.
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Tenants:\u00a0 Hold Vice-Mayor Cummings Accountable<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Tenants need protection.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Whose vote blocked just eviction protections last January?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Justin Cummings [J.C.].<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Who deserted the Progressive majority this special tenant protection session necessary and too late for those already evicted ?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>J.C.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Protecting tenants saves them from homelessness.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>In April Ross Camp activists were driven away without adequate shelter as landlords are now threatening to do and doing.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The elderly, the disabled, the vulnerable.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Who promised \u201cno evictions from Ross without adequate shelter?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Then obediently followed the false narrative of City Manager Bernal and his homeless-betraying assistant Susie O\u2019Hara ?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>J.C.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Whose key vote delayed any meaningful data on landlord costs, evictions, and rents?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>J.C.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Who scorned the pleas of the Clear View Court residents fighting corporate developer greed last meeting?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>J.C.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Who won\u2019t meet with activists on the tenant and homeless emergency?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>J.C.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Who won\u2019t hold regular office hours or answer e-mails?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>J.C. <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Will other tenants be driven out?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Deep into the Pogonip made dangerous with high winds?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Ask Justin Cummings.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>His vote withholds protection.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Desieire Quintero was a former tenant.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>She took shelter at Ross Camp.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Bernal & O\u2019Hara threw her out with no shelter.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>She fought back in court. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Discredited City Attorney Reid Gallogly countered with lies. Two days ago, a falling tree in the Pogonip killed her as she slept.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Who drove her there?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>J.C. <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>How many other displaced tenants will we lose from the community? <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Whose name should we etch on that fatal tree?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>If any vote and voice was key, it was J.C. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Can tenants expect any real protections from the Watkins-Commings Council? <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ask the question, but your words must somehow pierce the deadly silence\u2026of Justin Cummings..<\/span><\/p>\n


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TO DOWNLOAD AND\/OR COMMENT, go to\u00a0 https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/10\/29\/18827718.php<\/a>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MORE ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DESIERE QUINTERO, go to https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/10\/28\/18827673.php<\/a> (After Fighting to Keep Ross Camp Open, Homeless <\/strong><\/span>Woman Killed When Tree Strikes Campsite<\/strong>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2019\/10\/29\/18827710.php#18827712<\/a> ( Alicia Kuhl’s Statement on the Death of Desieire<\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FOR A REVIEW OF HER STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE ROSS CAMP AND PREVENT THE TRAGEDY THAT HAPPENED TO HER AND FACES HUNDREDS OF OTHERS:\u00a0 go to https:\/\/www.indybay.org<\/a><\/span>\/newsitems\/2019\/04\/23\/18822934.php<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

(Federal Judge Orders City of Santa Cruz to Halt Closure of Ross Camp<\/strong> )<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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