I will certainly support a class action suit against this type of 'feel good' dictatorial edict.
The other thing people forget about Andrew as Secretary of HUD... Under Clinton, they came out with the "everybody should be able to buy a home" mantra. They threatened the banks (who were conservatively lending to those who could pay their mortgages) that if they didn't open up lending to those who could not afford to pay them back, they would come down on them with the weight and force of the US Govt with penalties and lawsuits.....the birth of the "sub-prime" mortgage industry. THEN...ANDREW TO THE RESCUE.....as NY Attorney general, he filed suit on the sub-prime lenders....because they made loans to people who could not pay them back...AND...they(the banks and lenders) were Predatory.
As those lawsuits proceeded, lenders began to tighten lending requirements and since there were fewer 'qualified' buyers, and the economy was beginning to tank, the US Real estate and mortgage crisis began.
Andrew's answer...fix the mortgage and valuation portions of the industry by creation of the "home valuation code of conduct" which placed further regulation on the real estate mortgage industry which further limited actvity. This assumed that there was collusion between the banks and appraisers, where in fact, the banks were forced by HUD to lend to people who they would not have normally lent to due to their high risk.
So, Andrew was complicit in creation of the sub-prime mortgage market....then came to the rescue. Everybody gives him credit for the solution, but forgets that he was actually part of the original problem.
As for the original point of this forum, all of us in NY are used to having our legislators pass laws that "feel good", but do nothing but hurt the law abiding citizens with the unintended consequences of those laws. Our rights are limited by those laws, but the criminals don't abide by those laws, so they are unaffected.
Finally, I find it interesting that the same legislators who tell us that we can't or shouldn't have the right to carry a weapon are the same ones who have CCW permits themselves. I read on a concealed carry forum that a list of NY CCW permit holders appeared on the web for a short time before the error was caught and it was removed.
It was reported that our US Senator Charles Schumer's name appeared on that list....the same Chuckie Schumer who will blindly support Obama and Cuomo for limiting our rights to carry legally.
