Brooklyn lets Darrell Issa know that he's a piece of mierda.......

Darrell Issa Holds Another All-Male Panel in Brooklyn, This Time on Foreclosures; Gets Mic-Checked


Congressman Darrell Issa, the richest member of that august body, with a net worth of around $448,125,017, visited Brooklyn today to hold a hearing on foreclosures--and was met with a roomful of Brooklynites facing foreclosure and other economic troubles, who were less than happy with the bank-friendly legislator's presence in their borough.

Within minutes of opening the hearing, Issa was mic-checked, with activists from New York Communities for Change and other community groups declaring "This hearing is a fraud!"

Titled "Failure to Recover: The State of Housing Markets, Mortgage Servicing Practices, and Foreclosures," the hearing bore more than a few similarities to Issa's recent Washington hearings on contraception: the legislators involved were all male, and no one actually impacted by the subject under discussion was called to testify. Instead, they were left to amplify one another's voices.

"I am the face of the homeowners you voted against. I am not the only one," Mimi Pierre-Johnson, a New Yorker facing foreclosure, told the room before she was escorted out. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/864639/darrell_issa_holds_another_all-male_panel_in_brooklyn%2C_this_time_on_foreclosures%3B_gets_mic-checked/