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KingCast open letter to Senator Bruce Tarr on Robert Taylor?s law, Barbara Murch and the Lorraine Apartments.

By Christopher King

Read here to see what the Gloucester Times said about Robert Taylor's Law. Read the comments for my entire letter to Senator Tarr and the most recent draft of Robert Taylor's Law.

This is an excerpt from 5-year tenant Barbara Murch, who lawfuly withheld her rent after going to the Board of Health, but who was evicted after he lawyer failed to raise a counterclaim of retaliatory eviction. I've got her pictures from inside the building and let me tell you, it's all going to come out in the wash and it's going to get very nasty. Very. Nasty.

?I?ve also asked a couple of times to replace the stove so the same thing doesn?t happen to me as did the tenants in Apt. 5 (carbon monoxide fumes seeped into their apartment from their gas stove)??.?

?The lives of tenants in this building are in danger and if something happens you will be held accountable for our deaths. The building inspector and fire departments have already been notified by the city to do their inspections. When was the last time this building was inspected, probably not at all?..?

I close my letter to Senator Tarr:

I don?t know what the status is of Robert Taylor?s Law that I drafted and that your office edited, but in light of these developments it becomes even more important that you go forward with this legislation. Robert Taylor was a beautiful man who died in an uninspected building that probably had only one means of egress for him, which appears to be a per se code violation. Only people like you and State Representative Verga can help deter landlords like these from hurting more innocent people. Your commitment to the human condition implores you to do so......

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on August 29, 2008 (boomark / email).