Good early morning, Councilman James Rodriguez. That one is actually for you personally.
I’m sure you aren’t too thinking about the cash advance laws prior to the Houston City Council today. You skipped week that is last conference, which will permit you to “tag” the measure, delaying Wednesday’s vote until the following year.
At the same time, a council that is new have no choice but back once again to the drawing board on reforms that Dallas, Austin, El Paso and San Antonio have previously passed away to rein in loan providers preying on solitary mothers plus the working bad. At that time, you’re going to be properly away from workplace due to term limits, liberated to pursue possibilities within the private sector, possibly even a post when you look at the cash advance industry.
“I’m maintaining all choices available,” you explained with a laugh, decreasing to discuss that specific rumor.
You claim your opposition is approximately free areas, concern over laws jobs that are killing therefore the price of enforcement. You claim you are not affected at all by the connections towards the industry, including campaign efforts and, such as, the reality that your good friend, previous roomie and a groomsman at your wedding, Giovanni Garibay, is a lobbyist for money America.
Many striking, though, will be your contention that individuals in your eastern Houston region don’t care much concerning this problem.
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“I’ve been all over my region during the last six years,” you said in council a week ago. “and I also genuinely haven’t heard any complaints about that specific industry.”