Kansas City political reality . . .
NOBODY LIKES COUNCIL DUDE RUSS JOHNSON!!!
Even the dead tree media columnist that people rarely agree with is having fun piling on in a his latest column about the KCI single terminal plan . . .
"In a particularly arrogant public hearing several weeks ago, Russ Johnson basically told some questioners to sit down."
Sadly, Council Dude Johnson's otherwise promising career was ruined by his propensity to (mistakenly) believe that he's smarter than EVERYBODY in the room. At the conclusion of his second term, this character trait has made him Kansas City's most unpopular Council member . . .
More in a bit . . .
Sort of like saying you'd rather have cancer than AIDS.
ReplyDeleteNow notYael is another story.
I think his new wife likes him..
ReplyDeleteWhen is Johnson coming out of the closet?
ReplyDeletePROMINENT LAW FIRM MARTIN LEIGH LAWS FRITZLEN SENDING OUT ALLEGED FRAUDULENT EVICTION NOTICES LOCALLY STATING JACKSON & ASSOCIATES BOUGHT FORECLOSE HOMES
ReplyDeleteHousing Wire magazine & website bills itself as “financial news for the mortgage market,” and for the most part reports on related events. But Paul Jackson, the founder and publisher of Housing Wire, writes editorials, and of late he has been particularly concerned with telling his readers that there’s nothing of consequence in the foreclosure fraud issue, in particular the possibility that banks messed up their securitization processes and created clouded title issues.
Morality and the accompanying emotions to that noble love of justice are simply a varnish for the fires of greed. everything is about the $
OK then, let’s follow the money. What is Housing Wire, anyway? The principals of it and its parent company, the LTV Group, are Paul Jackson, and Richard Bitner. He used to be a subprime mortgage broker, and he wrote a book about it called Confessions of a Subprime Lender. Bitner has compared himself in interviews to a drug dealer for his career in the subprime industry.
Robert Jackson, Paul’s father and a CEO at Jackson and Associates, an REO (real estate owned; it means a property owned by a bank or government entity after an unsuccessful foreclosure auction) lawyer; Berry Laws, a partner at Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen, a foreclosure mill law firm out of Kansas, linked to robo-signing, which also owns a title company; and Benny Nassiri, the owner of Asset Financial Network, which specializes in foreclosure properties. Basically, mllf cashing in on the misery of others. She has also worked with IndyMac, the collapsed subprime lender
So this is the group around Housing Wire: foreclosure firms, an REO broker and an ex-subprime lender. If it is indeed “all about the money,” there’s a lot of guilt by association here. All of these people make money off the broken housing market and its constant stream of foreclosures.
But there’s more. The leading advertiser for Housing Wire is, in fact, LPS (Lender Processing Services). You may have heard of them because they have been implicated in multiple criminal investigations for producing fake documents for foreclosure cases. LPS ran DocX, the company that sold “authentic” documents to foreclosure mill law firms at cut rates. And they continued this profit center even outside of DocX:
Questionable signing and notarization practices weren’t limited to its subsidiary, called DocX, but occurred in at least one of LPS’s own offices, mortgage assignments filed in county recorders’ offices show. And rather than halt such practices after the federal investigation got underway, the company shifted the signing to firms with which it has close business ties. LPS provided personnel to work in the new signing operations, according to information from an LPS spokeswoman and court records including an October 21 ruling by a judge in Brooklyn, New York. Records in county recorders’ offices, and in the judge’s opinion, show that “robosigning” and preparation of apparently false documenTS
In one instance, it helped set up a massive signing operation at the nearby office of a major client, a spokeswoman for the client, American Home Mortgage Servicing, confirmed. LPS-hired notaries who worked there said in interviews that troves of documents were improperly handled. They said that about 200 affidavits per day were robosigned during the two months the two notaries remained there.
See also here and here. Yet Jackson has repeatedly defended LPS, its leading advertiser, from these charges, minimizing their legal exposure. One of the principals of the company, Benny Nassiri, also lists herself as affiliated with LPS & kS SEC OF STATE MIDWEST reo OWNED BY MLLF.
Here’s the point. Jackson has a habit of throwing around statements like “it’s all about the money,”
Russ needs to go. What a jerk!
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ReplyDeleteRuss is just an asshole.
Yael is what issues forth from an asshole.
Oh that Russ Johnson.
ReplyDeleteThe guy who pushed an undemocratic vote on the streetcar issue that only Stalin would have loved ??
I'm from the 2nd district. I don't care if the only other candidate on the ballot is Mickey Mouse, I'm not going to vote for Russ Johnson, again. He's an arrogant POS that has forgotten that his agenda should be that of those who elected him. Russ has forgotten that he works for the voters!!!
ReplyDeleteJohnson's problem is that he thinks he is the ONLY intelligent person in Kansas City. That's not just arrogant, it's foolish!
ReplyDeleteThere is an old saying that you can tell a lot about a man's character by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him. Johnson has proven that he will treat everyone like a piece of shit, even quite a few who could help him. That speaks volumes about the man.
ReplyDeleteThat, and the fact that he allows himself to be dragged into internet arguments. Thin skinned and unprofessional.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can get the Save KCI dude to run against him.
ReplyDeleteelBryan, I usually agree with you, but I don't see Johnson dragged into any arguments here, nor being thin-skinned or unprofessional. The fact that a bunch of anonymous posters, yourself excluded, are writing hateful comments without any accountability or known response from Johnson does not reflect on the councilman in any way.
ReplyDeleteThe councilman is a bitch. Plain and simple.
ReplyDelete10:31, I promise you that he both reads AND comments on TKC.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, go to his twitter account. I'm sure he deletes his worst tweets after the fact, but he is very petty and quick to respond harshly to critics. Tony documented an argument he had with @kcpd about their inability to respond to tweeted emergencies. They had to tell him "Just call 9-1-1." It's almost too funny to be true.
That's not even counting the snarky things he's said directly (or indirectly) to me regarding my position on #kcstreetcar. Social media is relatively new, but @clairecmc seems to manage it pretty well, and I promise you that she hears a lot worse stuff from her constituents than Russ Johnson does.