Just moments ago President Obama signed into law the controversial credit card bill that was proposed by Senator Dodd of Ct.
The president made mention of the consumer groups that help with the promotion of this adverse legislation who were in attendance for the signing of this legislation.
Unfortunately, this bill grants the right for the banks to charge those who pay their full balance each month to charge these good customers a service fee, elimination of earned cash accruals pay-outs based on a percentage of their purchases, and to start charging annual fees in order to offset their losses accrued by their bad customers who left the banks with unpaid bills.
One of the consumer groups in attendance, that the President mentioned, was Connecticut’s CCAG with Mr. Phil Sherwood a representative of that organization.
Mr. Sherwood also is currently a member of the Common Council of the City of New Britain, Ct.
Alderman Sherwood must be commended for his supporting this law, which was signed by the President, granting our citizens the right to carry guns onto federal parks and forest.
9 comments:
Maybe we need to get Mr. Sherwood a membership application for the NRA!
It wouldn't be fair to charge these late fees to the people who already can't pay their bills, so why shouldn't you rich people pay your neighbor's credit card bill for him??
I wouldn't be surprised if next week, Frank Smith is going to post a list of everyone in New Britain who is behind on their credit card payments!
Frank can't disclose credit card bills!
These are not currently covered under FOI laws unless Ald Sherwood decides to write ANOTHER FOI law!
but did you know that Sherwood is such a champion of gun owner's rights?
Frank can't disclose credit card bills!
These are not currently covered under FOI laws unless Ald Sherwood decides to write ANOTHER FOI law!
NOW THAT THE BANKS ARE OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THAT DOESN'T MAKE DELINQUENT CREDIT CARD BILLS PUBLIC INFO? IT WILL SOON, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE PUBLIC IS PAYING FOR IT. YOU GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR. TURN THE BANK OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INFORMATION BECOMES PUBLIC.
Phil Sherwood’s Prodigy Leslie Jacobs Conflict of Interest at NB Board of Education.
New Britain-The seeds of a Conflict of Interest surfaced in early November 2008 when Alderman Phil Sherwood side-tracked the GOP choice of Republican James Giontonio to fill a vacancy on the school board and engineered the appointment of his friend Leslie Jacobs (former school board member 1999-2003) for the Board of Education seat vacated by Marilyn Kraczkowski,a Republican,who resigned in September 2008.
Mr. Giontonio has the Republican town committee's unanimous support for the spot. Jacobs, who served on the school board from 1999 to 2003, did not have the party's support. She clashed with fellow GOP members and after failing to win the party's endorsement in the 2003 municipal election, ran as a third-party candidate of the Working Families Party and lost.
Anonymous said...Ms. Jacobs runs her own business as a home organizer. Her motivation is only to get her name out there thinking it might help her business through conducing two night classes (280 and 285) at New Britain High School.
When Superintendent Dr. Kurtz and Board of Education President Sharon Saavedra were inform of the conflict of interest pertaining to Instructor Ms. Jacobs, The Board terminate her position and her two classes (280 Drop the Weight by Losing Your Clutter – 285 Don’t Trash Their Memories).
The Class Fee: Residents $20 - Non-Residents $25.
Trinity Organizer Leslie Jacobs Arranging Tag Sale...
NEW BRITAIN — Leslie Jacobs, by her own admission, isn’t the best person to be in charge of the fund raising “white elephant” sale Trinity-on-Main is holding. On a sunny afternoon, Jacobs wandered through the two rooms Trinity is using to store the donated items, ranging in size from hand held knickknacks to coffee tables and other furniture.
She’s supposed to organize the items and help stick price tags on them, but as she surveyed the mess she shook her head in dismay.
“I am the world’s worst person to be in charge of this,” Jacobs said. “I would donate everything to Goodwill.”
But a nonprofit like Trinity-on-Main can always use the proceeds so Jacobs continued arranging the items, though she’ll be much happier with the state of Trinity after all the items are sold.
Even without the white elephant sale, Jacobs would have been at Trinity on a Wednesday. When she’s not volunteering at Trinity-on-Main, she works as a professional organizer, and is in the process of using her professional organizing skills to carve some order out of the chaos in Trinity’s administrative offices.
Jacobs will teach an organizing class at Trinity next month, with all tuition fees going into Trinity’s operating fund. In the meantime, she shared a few organizing hints.
Acid-free boxes, commonly sold in art supply stores, are excellent for storing old newspaper and magazine clippings. “I’m saving the news stories about Trinity in the boxes for now... let me tell you why organization’s so important. Nonprofits do so much with so little.
I want to show nonprofits how to be less stressed. We volunteer a lot in this country. If we got better organized, we could do a lot more with a lot less stress.
Jacobs will host a two-hour organizing class at Trinity-on-Main June 18,2009 from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission will be $15.
280 Drop the Weight by Losing Your Clutter...
...Do you walk into your house and hate the
clutter staring at you? Learn how you can
truly make a difference in your life by
getting rid of the clutter. Re-claim your
house and live in harmony with your
belongings.
Instructor: Leslie Jacobs
Wednesday, 2/11/09 -- Room 132
New Britain High School
6:00-8:00 p.m. – 1 night only
Residents $20 – Non-Residents $25
NOTE: Ms. Jacobs will host a two-hour organizing class at Trinity-on-Main June 18,from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission will be $15, and refreshments will be served.
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