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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 05:58 AM Aug 2020

N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video

Source: New York Times

Matthew Haag 8 hrs ago

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 nation’s largest, that she was interested in speaking with residents about conditions in the authority’s 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. Three of the tenants were never told that their interviews would be edited into a two-minute video clip that would air prominently on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention and be used to bash Mayor Bill de Blasio, the three 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.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nyc-tenants-say-they-were-tricked-into-appearing-in-rnc-video/ar-BB18tTDJ?li=BBnb7Kz

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N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2020 OP
I think they could sue and would have a good case. Greed Over People can't win without tricks. nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #1
Release Form Roy Rolling Aug 2020 #6
Even if there is one, it might be null & void if the RNC misrepresented the purpose, as it seems. nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #7
Better late than never .. Maxheader Aug 2020 #2
Yup Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #3
Their messing with s.s. taxes now.. Maxheader Aug 2020 #4
Precisely Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #5

Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)
6. Release Form
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 07:08 AM
Aug 2020

Where’s the standard release signed by non-professional people who appear on-camera? The RNC is a bunch of intellectual property stealing grifters.

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
4. Their messing with s.s. taxes now..
Sat Aug 29, 2020, 06:34 AM
Aug 2020

This crap of stealing and then being overturned by the courts...

So like past Kansas admins...

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