OPINION
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Purple is the New Party
accrued between March 4 – August but no one else is? Why do they get ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer 31, 2020, if the tenant provides a all their losses back, but restaurants, STAFF WRITER declaration of hardship according movie theaters, local coffee shops, Kimberly Rivers to the legislation’s timelines. For etc. don’t get their losses back? CONTRIBUTORS a COVID-19 related hardship that This isn’t some pull-yourself-upMichael Cervin, David Michael Courtland, Ivor Davis, Emily Dodi, by Paul Moomjean accrues between September 1, 2020 by-the-bootstraps moment. We can’t Alicia Doyle, Chuck Graham, Chris Jay, Daphne Khalida Kilea, Karen paulmoomjean@yahoo.com – January 31, 2021, tenants must even afford bootstraps, nor can we Lindell, Paul Moomjean, Mike Nelson, Tim Pompey, Emily Savage, he end is nigh. While hyper- public policy. People are about to also pay at least 25 percent of the find a store open that sells them. Kathy Jean Schultz, Alan Sculley, Kit Stolz, Mark Storer, Alex Wilson, Leslie A. Westbrook, Kateri Wozny Right now Newsom and his bolic, my last sentence is an lose the busiest season of earnings. rent due to avoid eviction.” GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Why are previous victims of ilk are getting a check for telling arrow pointing to the way According to the National Retail Bret Hooper, Paul Braun, Elaine Cota California Governor Gavin New- Federation, “Overall, holiday sales COVID-19 given a better deal than people they can’t earn their own. SALES TEAM LEADER som and his mayoral accomplices in November and December have recent victims of the virus? If peo- They are protecting the millionaire Warren Barrett averaged about 19 percent of annual and billionaire property manageple can’t work, then they can’t pay are shutting down the state, shoring ADVERTISING SALES ment companies and forgetting the up a dreadful local small business retail sales over the last five years, their rent. Barbara Kroon Newsom then decided to put families that live in them. And economic quarter (and year), and but the figure can be higher for CLASSIFIEDS Ann Turrietta potentially creating the most dis- some retailers.” The lack of tourism a nail in the coffin of people’s by taking the 1 percent’s side, mal holiday season in my lifetime. killed our summers and now with chances of seeing a light at the they have become a hierarchy of Advertising information, call 805.648.2244 With California going back on Santa being asked to stay at the end of the tunnel with the decla- Ebenezer Scrooges. Classified Ads | Display Ads In Charles Dickens’ A Christstricter lockdowns, and Los Ange- North Pole, don’t be surprised to see ration, “Tenants are still responEDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE les County doubling down harder shopping mall stores turn into tiny sible for paying unpaid amounts mas Carol, Scrooge was visited 805.648.2244 to landlords, but those unpaid by his old mortgage business partby making unessential gatherings ghost towns come 2021. warren@vcreporter.com (Advertising) With revenue down and unemner, the ghost of Jacob Marley. amounts cannot be the basis for a misdemeanor, the government nancy@vcreporter.com (Editorial) is doing all it can to “protect” us ployment less than it was at the an eviction. Landlords may begin The ghost reminded the miser that aturrietta@timespublications.com (Classifieds) without doing one damn thing to start of the pandemic, people are to recover this debt on March 1, business and money were not the The Ventura County Reporter is distributed every Thursday in Ventura, Oxnard, Port help us. With no national or state not going to be able to pay their 2021, and small claims court juris- most important values. Instead, he Hueneme, Camarillo, Ojai, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village and Agoura Hills. The stimulus package, or raise in unem- bills or cover their rent. But New- diction is temporarily expanded to cried out to the man: Reporter is available free of charge, limited to one copy per reader. The Reporter may be distributed only by Reporter authorized distributors. No person may, without prior “Business! Mankind was my ployment, or rent and mortgage som is letting landlords potentially allow landlords to recover these written permission of the Reporter, take more than one copy of each Reporter issue. freeze, our elected officials have recover all their lost rent checks, amounts. Landlords who do not business. The common welfare The Reporter is copyright ©2020 by Times Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. No part and the government will expand of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part in any form or by any means follow the court evictions pro- was my business; charity, mercy, proven themselves as flimsy as the without permission in writing by the publisher. An adjudicated Newspaper of General ballot we elected them with. If they the courts to make sure that they cess will face increased penalties forbearance, and benevolence, Circulation (SP50329). Submissions of all kinds are welcomed.AD However, PROOF the publisher get paid while you stay locked assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. A stamped, self-addressed envelope were all my business. The dealunder the Act.” are going to lock us down then it’s must accompany all submissions expected to be returned. inside your house Oh good. As long as landlords ings of my trade were but a drop of time we demand they help us up. Client: Geico Executive:ocean Warren Barrett (805) 648-2244 The California government web- drag tenants into court, wasting tax- water in Ad the comprehensive For statewide and local authorisiteand clarifies, “Under the legislation, of myand business!” Please checkpeople this proof carefully indicate all corrections clearly. payer You will have a “1st Proof”, “Final Proof”. If we receive no proof after the 1st or 2nd Proofs, AD WILL money, then they can milk“2nd their Proof”, ties to prevent fromover running no tenant can be Mayand thesign spirit of Marley RUN AS IS. and If thisnot proof approval onevicted the 1stbefore proof,Febcheck homeless off “FINALtenants PROOFfor(APPROVED)” at the bottom visit all that’s left.box, date their businesses paymeets the your ruaryPROOF 1, 2021 as aTO result(805) of rent owed losses is probably the most mobster Can anyone explain to me why the our leaders this Christmas season ISSUE: 12/7/20 NOTICE: PLEASE FAX THIS 648-2245 ASAP PRESIDENT Steve Strickbine act they could execute and call due to a COVID-19 related hardship landlords are guaranteed their income now. Before they start defending VICE PRESIDENT Michael Hiatt
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