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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYC tenants say they were tricked into appearing in RNC video
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/nyregion/nyc-tenants-rnc-video-trump.html#click=https://t.co/GQ69opL6ev"It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump associate who oversees federal housing programs in New York.
Ms. Patton told a leader of a tenants group at the New York City Housing Authority, the nations largest, that she was interested in speaking with residents about conditions in the authoritys buildings, which have long been in poor repair.
Four tenants soon assembled in front of a video camera and were interviewed for more than four hours by Ms. Patton herself. They were never told that their interviews would be edited into a two-minute video clip that would air on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention and be used to bash Mayor Bill de Blasio, three of the tenants said in interviews on Friday.
I am not a Trump supporter, said one of the tenants, Claudia Perez. I am not a supporter of his racist policies on immigration. I am a first-generation Honduran. It was my people he was sending back.
The episode represents another stark example of how President Trump has deployed government resources to further his political ambitions. Ms. Patton is head of the New York office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and under the Hatch Act is barred from using her government position to engage in political activities."... (more)
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NYC tenants say they were tricked into appearing in RNC video (Original Post)
Tanuki
Aug 2020
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Squinch
(50,955 posts)1. How is that legal? Patton needs to be slapped with the Hatch Act.
tikka
(762 posts)2. Isn't there a law that protects against a person's image being used without their consent?
There are exceptions, but this doesn't seem to be one. Even if they gave consent, the consent may have been obtained by deception.
Cha
(297,317 posts)3. GD trumphuckers.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. I am really, really so fucking sick of this shit!
And I am sick of them getting away with it.
moondust
(19,993 posts)5. Sue the Trumpigs.
I don't see how they can use people in political promotions without their express permission.