Saturday, September 06, 2008

Mayor Barrett Makes Promise He Doesn’t Keep

That’s an effective Mayor you have there, Milwaukee.

Mayor Tom Barrett promised one month ago to help Peter Tubic, a disabled man whose house the city foreclosed on after he failed to pay a parking-related fine.

On Friday, less than a week before a court hearing that could determine whether he loses his home for good, Tubic was still waiting for his phone to ring.

Barrett vowed to contact the mental health community and seek resources for Tubic, who said he was too overwhelmed with sickness and death in his family and other problems to respond to a $50 fine — which over the years escalated to more than $2,600.

“I can’t sit by and watch a man who is clearly suffering from mental debilitation lose his home because of a $50 ticket,” Barrett said Aug. 4, days after the foreclosure. “My next step is to reach out to the mental health community to see whether they can have contact with him.”

Turns out that isn’t quite what happened.

The Public Investigator Team requested a list of agencies contacted by Barrett’s office and received an e-mail citing two organizations: Community Advocates and Mental Health America of Wisconsin.

When P.I. contacted Community Advocates, Executive Director Joe Volk said his agency actually called the mayor’s office after reading the story in the Journal Sentinel.

(3) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0858 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Wis.Ct.Access—-Tubic was healthy enough to file a law suit against an insurance company in 2005.
    Check it out

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2008 at 1714 hrs


  2. Disgraceful. 

    Government is first allowed to ticket you for a vehicle legally parked in your own driveway - not on blocks on your front lawn, not illegally parked on the street - but in your driveway.  Then it is allowed to take your house for a $2600 fine.

    Big Brother at his finest.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2008 at 2227 hrs


  3. Take a long look at Tubic, he is far different than he seems in the paper.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 07, 2008 at 2100 hrs


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