Blot on Miers’ image (weeds, debris, failure to respond to property liens)

[jefferson_dem]

WTF????

Blot on Miers’ image
Court nominee was slow to respond to several liens placed on properties she controls in Dallas, records show had to reimburse Texas city for failing to clear weeds, debris from vacant lots

BY TOM BRUNE
WASHINGTON BUREAU

October 15, 2005, 9:09 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- The year Harriet Miers began work as a senior presidential aide in the White House, the city of Dallas slapped three liens in three months on a property she controls in a low-income minority Dallas neighborhood, records show.

The city placed the liens in 2001 to force her to reimburse it for clearing the vacant lot of tall grass, weeds and debris after Miers failed to have the work done herself, as required by city law, and after she did not respond to city notices to maintain the property.

It wasn't the first time the city had to take action -- records show that since Miers assumed power of attorney for her elderly, ailing mother in 1995, the city has issued seven other liens on vacant lots that Miers controls in the same area around Tipton Park.

All 10 liens, totaling less than $2,000, have been paid off, a city spokesman said.

But the failure of Miers, a former Dallas City Council member, to comply with city law and her slow response in reimbursing the city run counter to her image as a meticulous, detail-oriented attorney who is always well prepared.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usmiers1016,0,5675616,print.story?coll=ny-nation-big-pix

[UTUSN]

1. She's a Deadbeat. Too Busy with Her Career to Take Care of Her Stuff n/t

[TomInTib]

2. Well, when you're busy "Pioneering" you don't have time for the

details.

Yeah, that's right, details.

Like those little detail-thingies in Constitutional Laws.

The Panel will kill her on the finer points of Constitutional Law.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Slum landlord?

Or detail-oriented attorney?

Chaos?

or divine order?

[IndianaGreen]

13. Wow, so she is a slum landlord to boot!

This is so wonderful news that I think I will pop some popcorn.

:popcorn:

[salin]

4. Who'd a thunk it - bush nominates a slum lord to the Supreme Court

how fitting.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. I knew she would be a blight on this country

I didn't know she was already a blight on the neighborhood.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Tsk Tsk Tsk !

Really now. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

7. One of the smartest things the Democratic Party did recently...

... was to back off from protesting the nomination of Miers. Hers is a nomination that will implode from it's own unstable configuration.

I applaud whoever in the "opposition" realized that this has 10' pole marks all over it. Well played. Who's got the over/under on when her nomination will be withdrawn for whatever reason?

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Smart indeed. Stand back and watch the RW eat their young.

What a beautiful sight.

A Repug food fight.

[gulfcoastliberal]

9. Hope they filibuster should she make to to the hearings

Otherwise this grand "strategy" will be nothing more than the latest failure of dem tactics. Is she gets to the hearings, she's in - unless the dems filibuster. No way would the senate repukes vote against *. Even senate Dems voteed for Roberts; undoubtedly some will also vote for Miers. Hope I'm wrong but doubt it.

[tularetom]

12. So far that's true

But they better become pro active in committee and especially if the nomination reaches the floor and I hope someone on the dem side is making preparations for a fight in that event. I mean sure the nomination may implode but if it doesn't do you wnat Miers on the SCOTUS? Not me. And I don't buy the "let her get approved or bush may nominate someone a lot worse" argument either. You gotta believe anyone he sends up there is going to be so loaded down with baggage it will be easy to trip them up. I believe he has shot himself in the foot by nominating this dolt and if the dems hang tough he may be stymied for the rest of his term. His credibility is pretty much down the crapper now.

[gardenista]

10. The Pretzledint has obviously been too busy to clear her brush. nt

[Scurrilous]

11. Low income minority neighborhood...

...no brush clearing photo-ops for Bush there.

[tularetom]

14. I could make a smart ass remark

about how happy she'd be for him to clear her brush, but I won't.

[kskiska]

15. Actually, she's been at the ranch clearing HIS brush

Anyone got the picture?

[tabasco]

18. LMAO !

She should have called her brilliant friend to come chop the weeds. Maybe something he's qualified for. But the pampered Connecticut cheerleader couldn't put in a decent day's work if his life depended on it.

[ellenfl]

16. she's a scofflaw AND a slumlord! i bet she

killed small animals and reptiles for fun when she was a kid, too. that would explain why shrub and 'catkiller' frist like her so much. i think we have a trifecta . . . and a triumverate!

ellen fl

[tanyev]

17. Kick.

[displacedtexan]

19. I know a bit about Texas cities and those liens.

My brother-in-law, before he died, had the main contract for mowing those untended yards and lots in Fort Worth. I don't know what the exact legal limits are today, but 20 years ago, the city would mow and clean up if the grass or debris was 12" high. I think you got your first letter when the grass was 8" high, but I'm not sure. I do know that three inspections or citizen complaints (or a combination of the two) resulted in city intervention.

Snakes and mosquitoes were the main reasons, as well as dangerous sharp items people (kids) could get hurt by.

I assume that Dallas laws and Fort Worth laws are probably similar: even if the renter doesn't maintain the property, the owner is ultimately responsible.

I also assume that Harriet Miers has hired someone (or a company) to manage her property. If so, she doesn't know jack about hiring reputable help.

[atommom]

20. If she doesn't know jack about hiring reputable help....

she should fit right in! :crazy:

[snippy]

21. Dirty Harriet. n/t

[JoFerret]

22. Scatology?

.

[redacted]

23. SLUMLORD! How appropriate. How could anyone be surprised?

[adigal]

24. Typical of the Bush administration

everything they are in control of is a mess.

Get out and take care of your land, fools!!

[Straight Shooter]

25. "I'm better than everybody else. I can ignore the laws of Dallas."

The woman has a bad attitude. Slumlord is the first word that popped in my mind.

Why doesn't she build something nice for the folks in the neighborhood? Wait, don't tell me. She's holding on to those vacant lots until the surrounding property value rises, and then everything in that neighborhood will be razed to the ground so a new fancy development can be built. Let the poor eat dirt x(

[Mind_your_head]

26. She's a slum landlord?????

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