Miers' troubles with tax liens - 10 of them - she's a slum landLady

[donsu]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/16/MNGJHF96591.DTL

Miers' troubles with tax liens
Supreme Court pick has had 10 placed on overgrown property she controls in Dallas


The year Harriet Miers began work as a senior presidential aide in the White House, the city of Dallas slapped three liens in three months on a property she controls in a low-income minority Dallas neighborhood, records show.

The city placed the liens in 2001 to force her to reimburse it for clearing the vacant lot of tall grass, weeds and debris after Miers failed to have the work done herself, as required by city law, and after she did not respond to city notices to maintain the property.

It was not the first time the city had to take action. Records show that since Miers assumed power of attorney for her ailing mother in 1995, the city has issued seven other liens on vacant lots that Miers controls in the same neighborhood around Tipton Park.

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But the failure of Miers, a former Dallas City Council member, to comply with city law, and her slow response in reimbursing the city, run counter to her image as a meticulous, detail-oriented attorney who is always well prepared.
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Image vs. Reality

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Gee, that doesn't surprise me either.

[barbaraann]

2. Didn't her net worth go down since she moved to DC?

Cheap labor - that's what the GOP is all about, even with aides to the President.

She simply might not have had the money to pay her bills or thought she couldn't have afforded them all.

[yellowcanine]

3. Deadbeat slum lord? How Christian of her. Jesus said to welcome

the stranger but I guess he didn't say you had to provide a nice place for him, mow the grss and pay the taxes. Well there is that "Love your neighbor as yourself" and "render unto Caesar...."

[Disturbed]

4. A person that is supposed to be about the Law....

should abide by the Law, right?

[Supersedeas]

5. Details? She thinks * is a genius--there's your details

[gratuitous]

6. Well, her image is that of being meticulous and detail-oriented

I guess some details are more important than others. And besides, she's off in Washington, so what does she care that her property back in Dallas is an eyesore?

[hughee99]

7. If her property is a

"vacant lot of tall grass" then is she a landlady at all? Doesn't the title "slum Landlady" seem to have negative connotations and suggest that she A. owns a slum and B. treats her tenants poorly.