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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Post: Mich. campaign ad is 'most brutal ever'


The Washington Post is calling a new TV ad targeting Republican congressional candidate David Trott of Birmingham the "most brutal ad you'll ever see anywhere."
The 30-second spot launched today on Detroit area TV stations by Democratic contender Bobby McKenzie tells the story of 101-year-old Texana Hollis of Detroit who was evicted from her home in 2011 with the assistance of Trott's law firm. At the height of the housing crisis, Trott & Trott handled 80,000 foreclosure cases for the banks in one year.
The ad depicts Hollis, sitting in a wheelchair, being removed from her home on a rainy night as she cries. Her son had missed payments on the home's mortgage.
"Foreclosure king Dave Trott has made millions foreclosing on Michigan's families. Trott profited from human misery as tens of thousands of Michiganders were evicted from their homes," says the ad narrator.
Trott
According to the Post, Trott's firm handled paperwork in the case, which received considerable news coverage in the Detroit media. The Department of Housing and Urban Development evicted Hollis. They later let her move back in after saying they made a mistake. Hollis died late last year.
Responding to a Post request for a response to the ad, Trott spokeswoman Megan Piwowar reportedly said in an e-mail, "No one wants to foreclose. The law firm was following instructions to foreclose and evict issued by the federal government as the mortgagee was Department of Housing and Urban Development and the eviction was executed by other parties, not the law firm. This ad does not tell all the facts."
McKenzie
Trott and McKenzie, a former counterterrorism expert for the State Department, are facing off in the 11th District, which includes most of the tri-county area's west side suburbs. Complicating the race is Republican incumbent Congressman Kerry Bentivolio, who lost badly to Trott in the primary but is now running as a write-in candidate.




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2 comments:

  1. John McDermottOctober 22, 2014 at 6:58 PM

    Trott deserves this. We must nullify the non-prosecution and immunity agreements A.G. Eric Holder sold to the Banks and toll the civil and criminal statutes of limitations for the foreclosure abuses. i.e. robo-signing.

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  2. Frank CusumanoOctober 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM

    I cannot support the Trott campaign. I am sorry, but Trott's candidacy reinforces a perception of the Republican Party that many of us in the GOP are working hard to dispel. The bank bail-out, and the foreclosure crisis, are not conservative values. The fact that Trott benefited, got richer, and now believes he can purchase a seat in Congress is just too much to swallow. BOTH Democrats and Republicans (real working people) need to put the Constitution first, and elimination of corruption (including the "too big to fail" banks) at the top of the agenda.

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