This evening, Mayor James Ireton Jr. praised the Salisbury City Council for their passage, at 1st Reading, of the Salisbury Tenants Bill of Rights Addendum. The addendum is part of the Mayor’s Salisbury Safe Streets Neighborhood Legislative Package. 2nd Reading is August 8, 2011.
“For almost a year, the Safe Streets Neighborhood Legislative Package has waited for some movement in council chambers. I am encouraged that the first initiative is out of the gate. Protecting our renters and making where they live safer is a top priority. We are ensuring that each lease written in Salisbury empowers renters with legal avenues to ensure fairness and informs the tenant as to the legal number of persons who can occupy a rental unit. Passing this legislation fulfills a campaign promise I made to Salisbury over two years ago. All our residents should be proud of their elected officials tonight,” said Mayor Ireton.
Turning this into a press release is proof positive that Jim Ireton is all about photo op's and seeing his name in the paper.
ReplyDeleteJoe & GA --
ReplyDeleteIt slays me that you two anti big governmant types find Ireton's intrusion into private matters between citizens to be perfectly OK.
Anon 2240 -
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, this was a press release from Jim. It doesn't mean that either Joe or I endorse it.
Second, I am not anti-government. That would make me an anarchist. I am an ordered liberty conservative. Don't know what that is? Try reading a little Edmund Burke.
If memory serves me well, council woman Campbell has been advocating for this "renters bill of rights" legislation for the entire time that she has been on council and even before that, when she was active in neighborhood revitalization as the first director of SNHS.
ReplyDeleteGA -- he said "anti big government" not "anti government".
ReplyDeleteEver heard of Thos. Jefferson and his views on that topic?