From NWI Times
INDIANAPOLIS | Democrat Jill Long Thompson on Monday named Lake County Sheriff Rogelio “Roy” Dominguez an adviser to her campaign for Indiana governor.
Dominguez joins Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson and Dubois County Sheriff Terry Tanner as co-chairs of the campaign’s newly formed Law Enforcement for Jill Committee.
Dominguez has been making the news lately in Lake County as he kicks homeowners out of their houses.
From IndyStar.com
CROWN POINT, Ind. — A national housing activist group is threatening legal action to force Lake County’s sheriff to halt the sale of foreclosed properties.
The Lake County Council recently endorsed the group’s proposal for a temporary moratorium on home foreclosures to give homeowners more time to try to save their homes.
Dominguez doesn’t agree. Fsck ‘em, let them live in a cardboard box, right Roy?
But Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez, whose office handle home foreclosures, contends that he’s legally obligated to carry out the foreclosures ordered by judges and to administer regular sales of foreclosed property.
Eric Weathersby, the executive director of the Northwest Indiana chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, said that’s not the case.
“(Dominguez) has the power to stop them if he wants,” said Weathersby, whose group is an Indiana chapter of a national advocacy group for low- to moderate-income families.
Weathersby said Dominguez is unwilling to interrupt the revenue stream his office collects by enforcing foreclosure notices. The sheriff’s department collects $200 from mortgage lenders for each foreclosure it processes and now has $930,000 in its foreclosure fund.
So, it’s all about the money.
National activists with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, say they have been working successfully with sheriff’s departments in various states to temporarily halt foreclosure sales, giving homeowners more time to save their property.
Foreclosure sale moratoriums have worked well in Philadelphia County, Pa., said Ian Phillips, the legislative director for Pennsylvania ACORN. Since April, the Philadelphia County sheriff has agreed to push back the foreclosure sales there by two months for owner-occupied homes, Phillips said.
In the interim, he said, ACORN organizers set up “conciliation conferences” with the homeowners, lenders and county judges. As a result, more than 300 homeowners who had been scheduled to go to the foreclosure sale this spring now have agreed with their banks to a new payment plan at a fixed interest rate.
Roy apparently has no compassion. Nice pick Jilly, the liberals ought to love your choice.
In other Dominguez news from the Post-Trib
On this Fourth of July weekend, we celebrate our freedoms and the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But it also should be a time when we remember that at every level of government — local, state and federal — our elected officials and civil servants regularly attempt to hide open records from citizens.
On the local level, the techniques are interesting.
In Lake County, during the primary election, we read reports from around the state of Hillary Clinton appearances that included Sheriff Roy Dominguez. Our staffers wondered a natural question: Were Lake County taxpayers paying for campaign travel time?
So the Post-Tribune filed an open records request under state law to see if Dominguez was on the clock those days.
But we still don’t know.
Dominguez and Lake County never answered the open records request, which is in violation of state law.
So here’s a guy elected to uphold the law yet he refuses to obey it. It looks like Linda Pence, the dem’s AG nominee will be in good company.
AWB
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