AZ Renters Ask For Governor To Veto SB1185

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A number of Arizona renters are raising concerns about a bill sitting on Governor Doug Ducey’s desk.

Opponents of SB1185 want Ducey to veto the legislation, because they say it gives landlords the power to remove any tenant’s guest. Amber Mendez rents an apartment in Phoenix and does not like the idea of her landlord having the final say on who she can have over. “I think it would be inappropriate,” said Mendez. “If there’s somebody the landlord doesn’t like, how can they just call the cops and have the person leave?” SB1185 would allow landlords to call police and remove any guest that’s not on the lease.

Ellen Katz is director of the William E. Morris Institute for Justice, a non-profit advocacy group that’s working to stop SB1185 from becoming law. Katz said the big problem with the bill is how it’s written, with vague wording, that essentially gives landlords the power to remove any tenant’s guest without a reason or due process.

SB 1185 states “A person who knowingly remains on the premises without the permission of the tenant or landlord may be removed by a law enforcement officer.”

“It could be a guest whose watching TV, it could be a guest who is there to babysit or it could be a guest who has been there for much longer,” said Katz. “It allows the landlord to withhold permission for the guest to be there.” According to Katz, the bill could be an easy way for landlords to discriminate against tenants they don’t like.

CBS reached out to the lawmakers who sponsored the bill, to get their take on why SB1185 will be good for Arizonans. A staff member said that Representative Justin Olson (R-Mesa) didn’t have time discuss the issue on the phone and state Senator Gail Griffin (R-Hereford) never responded. Mendez said if state lawmakers want to take away their rights and dictate who they can have in their home, the least they can do is explain why. “I think that’s not fair,” said Mendez.

A rally and protest have been scheduled at the state capitol Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock.

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Top 10 Quotes Favored By Mr Richard Branson

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Enjoy Mr. Richard Branson’s Top 10 Quotes. If they are a favorite of Mr. Branson’s, they must be words to live by…

10. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller

9. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy

8. A year from now you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

7. By changing nothing, nothing changes. –  Tony Robbins

6. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis

5. Change before you have to. – Jack Welch

4. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

3. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

2. Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. – Margaret Mead

1. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

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