It’s ceaselessly engaging to watch politicians on every level show their monumental hypocrisy by swearing oaths to their federal and state constitutions, then break them on a near-daily basis.
It’s also engaging to note how that hypocrisy tends to run deep, into many other facets of their lives.
Take 21-term (seriously, 21 terms) Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D). As Fox News Digital's Andrew Miller reports, newly uncovered legal documents hint that maybe, just maybe, her public pronouncements in favor of squatters and her support for unconstitutional bans of landowners evicting tenants for non-payment of rent might – juuuuust might – be about as sincere as a vampire’s thirsty smile when you welcome him into the house.
“Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who has a long history of defending squatters' rights and decrying foreclosure evictions during the 2008 recession, has filed eviction notices against multiple tenants of properties she owns.
One of those eviction petitions, filed in 2021 in Toledo municipal court, was against a tenant for ‘non-payment of rent,’ and that same tenant faced another eviction from Kaptur in 2023 for failing to pay rent.
That same tenant faced a possible eviction from Kaptur in 2024.
Kaptur, running for her 22nd term in Congress, also filed an eviction petition against another tenant in 2024 for a noise complaint, animal complaint and for an unauthorized person living on the property.
All of the eviction filings were eventually withdrawn by Kaptur.”
Hold on. Surely, she isn’t two-faced. Perhaps there’s some confusion. After all, in the embedded Fox video, Kaptur seems so entirely pleasant while interacting with someone at an airport…
Well, going back a few years, Mr. Miller offers readers some of her grandstanding on the issue of evictions.
“Kaptur's eviction filings come with a backdrop of the congresswoman vocally speaking out against evictions during her time in Congress.
During the COVID pandemic, Kaptur repeatedly pushed for the enactment and extension of eviction moratoriums to prevent landlords from removing tenants. In one letter Kaptur signed, she declared, ‘Keeping Americans affordably and stably housed during this pandemic is both a moral imperative and a public health necessity.’
Kaptur co-sponsored legislation, H.R. 6347, to establish an eviction moratorium until six months after the COVID-19 emergency declaration expired.”
Which, of course, requires a quick recollection of the fact that she not only had no constitutional authority to sponsor or vote for such legislation, the president had no constitutional authority to declare a “COVID-19 emergency” in March of 2020, had no authority to push jabs, or develop them, or trot a bunch of blowhards like Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci onto White House stages to claim they somehow represented the so-called SCIENCE.
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Additionally, even if the US Constitution were amended to allow for all that insane malfeasance, it still would be inappropriate, unethical, and anti-economic.
The market cannot function when politicians stand ready to inject their preferences into agreements between willing parties. If landlords cannot evict people for non-payment, not only is the primary moral principle of private property control destroyed, the practical outcome is that fewer people will be willing to enter the property rental and construction field.
Meaning, fewer rental units, higher rental prices, and fewer opportunities for tenants and potential tenants to get affordable housing.
But Marxism and narcissism seem to be powerful forces in Congresswoman Kaptur’s daily operating system, and, thus, recalls Miller from Kaptur’s history:
"’Possession is 99% of the law; you stay in your house.’ Kaptur said on the floor of the House of Representatives in 2009 after the 2008 housing crisis. ‘So, I say to the American people, you be squatters in your own homes. Don’t you leave.’
In 2017, Kaptur slammed Trump Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin for allegedly profiting from foreclosures and complained that ‘Mr. Mnuchin profited personally off of kicking people out of their homes. Does such a person actually deserve confirmation as secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America?’”
Dang, it sure would reflect monumental hypocrisy if Kaptur were shown to engage in attempts to do precisely the same thing.
So, as with most stories of political double-standards, perhaps it’s best we forget the information mentioned earlier – those revelations about her attempts to evict people for non-payment of rent.
Just… well, listen to her rhetoric. Everything’s fine.
“Kaptur told homeowners in 2009, ‘You should stay in your home. It is your castle. It’s more than a piece of property. It’s your home.’"
Unsurprisingly, Fox News Digital hasn’t heard back from this woman who, when it serves her purposes, is quite eager to shout from the proverbial rooftops about how great she is.
“Fox News Digital reached out to Kaptur's campaign for comment but did not receive a response.”
Wouldn’t it be nice if one could stop the ultimate squatter – the government – from living on one’s own earnings? Wouldn’t it be nice to be left alone?