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@rontkim and I worked on a predatory towing case in Flushing a few years back with @LegalAidNYC and the @NewYorkStateAG office. These towing companies were waiting outside of grocery stores for pregnant women and disabled people to park and go inside the store. 1/
Hitch their car up. Wait for them to come out with groceries. Then demand 600 dollars in cash or they would threaten to impound their cars. When someone is desperately needing their transportation and fearful of losing their vehicle for weeks, they pay. 2/
The fine for doing something like this when caught? 50 bucks. The case was so egregious the AG has to step in, by the time they had a decision on the case tho, these companies had “bankrupted” and started over under new LLCs. 3/
If we don’t change the laws, how are we not encouraging predatory companies to just think this is “just the cost of doing business”? If companies are not doing something purposefully deceptive, abusive, predatory, or unfair, why would they be afraid to have this bill pass? 4/
Every time we have any bills regulating anything in businesses...there are folks saying the world will end and the sky is falling. This is a law that 38 states have and the world has not ended and the sky had not fallen. 5/
The rebuttal for this bill is that they cannot make enough money if they do not deceive, prey on, abuse, or unfairly treat people. Is this what we stand for? Please reach out in support of A-679/S2407. 6/6
@UrbanJustice @SUCollegeofLaw @NYCDefenderS @themoneycoach @johncusack and many many more...thank you and let’s get this done!
A big shout out to our Senate sponsor @LeroyComrie and our senate cosponsors @jamaaltbailey @Biaggi4NY @SenGianaris @KevinThomasNY @JuliaCarmel__ @bradhoylman @RJackson_NYC @BrianKavanaghNY @LizKrueger @LiuNewYork @zellnor4ny @jessicaramos @NYSenatorRivera @JamesSkoufis
@DickGottfried @LindaBRosenthal @peterabbatejr @SteveOtis91 @CatalinaCruzNY @EllenCJaffee @DavidWeprin @assemblymanalt1 @AssemblyLWalker @DickensAssembNY @SteveEngles @assemblymanjoe @NaderJSayegh and many more I cannot find the twitter handles of. Thank you! Three more days...
