Who knew Scrooge was a Democrat?
Via LIBERTAS and Brain-Terminal, here’s a fun story about homeless people effectively being evicted from their temporary shelter by a multi-millionaire partisan Democrat named Milton Sidley, who contributed $4,000 to the 2004 Kerry campaign. Some years back, long-time Los Angeles homeless activist Ted Hayes (a big Rastafarian-looking Republican) erected a “Dome Village” to house the homeless in an ongoing effort to help them get back on their feet (or at least get them off the street). Now there’s this:
After learning that Ted Hayes visited a Republican women’s group, landlord and retired attorney Milton Sidley wrote a one-line letter informing Justiceville/Homeless, USA (JHUSA) that he will raise the rent from $2,500/mo plus property taxes to $18,333/mo plus property taxes in late 2006. When asked why he raised the rent, Sidley replied, “This Democrat is tired of supporting Ted and his Dome Village.”
Sidley, knows that Justiceville/Homeless USA cannot survive this punitive increase. The multi-millionaire sent the rent-increase notice two days after reading a Los Angeles Times article that referenced Ted Hayes’ support for President Bush. Sidley, has retaliated against Hayes in a way that will displace 32 men, women, and children.
That’s the spirit! Now, of course, this “Dome Village” may be an effort in futility, and I know I wouldn’t want a homeless village on my property. But, when an apparent member of the much vaunted “we care about people” party does this, and when he apparently does it merely for politically partisan reasons, I think it is fair to criticize him.
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:36 pm
One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard was when a friend of mine, talking about her husband’s boss, said with all earnestness that “I know he’s a generous man. He’s a Democrat!” I had to excuse myself and run to the bathroom so I could quietly laugh until the tears ran down my face. That was probably the best laugh I’ve had all year. All I know for sure is that the Democrats I know all have nice cars, nice houses, fantastic vacations, expensive computers, but not a dime to their names when charities come a callin’, while most (not all) of the Republicans I know are broke, yet manage to scrape up a little money whenever they know someone is in need.