Brewer signs bill to help debt collectors

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has approved legislation making it easier for debt collectors to go after defaulting consumers and small businesses. Brewer signed House Bill 2664 into law today. The measure allows collection agencies to use final billing statements as a basis to show amounts owed and interest rates as they seek court judgments and wage garnishments. The bill was favored by debt collectors, which buy delinquent accounts from banks and credit card companies for pennies on the dollar, but receive only minimal information from those sources. It can be difficult and expensive for the collection companies to get additional information on the defaulting consumers and business owners. Debt collectors’ business model depends on them collecting money from the account holders whose information they buy. The new state law makes it easier on them if they can obtain final billing statements from the banks and credit card issuers. Consumer attorneys and Democrats opposed the bill, worrying about the accuracy of credit card statements and fees.

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• She is a monster. Why would anyone want to live in Arizona?

• what a fucking cunt.

• Will somebody PLEASE throw a pan of hot grease in this hag's face already?

• What R1 and R2 and R3 said.

• Why don't people pay their debts?

• [quote]Will somebody PLEASE throw a pan of hot grease in this hag's face already? Are we sure someone hasn't already done that?

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• It's not unusual for debt collectors to try to collect money that is not in fact owed.

• What a bitch! Many consumers have lost jobs, and can't pay their bills...WTF?

• She looks like a mean bitch.

• I had never heard of this thing before the abortion bill and now this, I refuse to dehumanize my gender by calling it a woman, she is a fucking monster, off with her head!!!

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• Ha ha ha ha!!! And that goes for your little doggy too!

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• Her son is incarcerated in an asylum for the criminally insane.

• It might improve her looks R3.

• Is the state of Arizona full of retards? Why do they have this mean ass bitch for governor?

• Hopefully she will continue to anger a lot of voters in Arizona between now and November with more actions like this. The angrier voters in Arizona become at the Republicans, the more likely Obama has a shot at making Arizona close in the General Election.

• [quote]Her son is incarcerated in an asylum for the criminally insane. With her for a mother, did her son have a chance? Can only imagine the house of horrors he grew up in.

• Good god, the people in Arizona are breathtakingly stupid and ignorant. They are quickly taking the place of Texas and Florida as most widely loathed.

• What a hateful cunt. She is the Pete Wilson of the Arizona GOP. I can't wait for 10 to 20 years down the line when these hateful old bigoted seniors die out and the GOP will burn, burn, burn into oblivion (like California).

• Heaven forbid you should pay what you owe.

• Rich people are rich because they so often neglect their bills, or bitch slap merchants to take pennies on the dollar of their bills. Poor people are not given that option.

• I thought in addition to one son in an asylum, she had another who committed suicide.

• Totally preempted by the FDCPA. Another unconstitutional AZ law. What a fucking surprise.

• Since we can't trust our government to be fair, I think we should just take the law into our own hands. We know who the bad guys are, they should be dead. We can always say, they came into our neighborhood, wearing a hoodie. It works in Florida.

• [quote]Why don't people pay their debts? Why do taxpayers have to bail out banks that pay their top execs multi-million dollar bonuses in spite of their failure?

• She is a monster. Are all the people who live in Arizona monsters? Why would they elect her? They must approve of monsters.

• I thought in addition to one son in an asylum, she had another who committed suicide. My error: The son in the asylum is there as the result of the 1989 rape of a Phoenix woman. The other son died of cancer in 2007. My apologies.

• I live in Arizona...born here...and it's increasingly regrettable. The state has many good people, of course, but there is a huge bloc of conservative, religious and racist crazies who've mostly come from out of state. We're up to our ears in them in the northern part if the state. The thug-like GOP wants it known far and wide that it leans on minorities, the poor, the liberal, the queer...and it results in 'self-deportation' of those undesirables and an open door policy for their fellow crazies. Joe Arpaio! I rest my case. Jan also signed a bill increasing the statute of limitations on old debt to 6 years, which reactivated collection activity on an old account of mine...and disqualified single males from AHCCCS, which resulted in me losing medical care. She will be responsible for the deaths of some, but it's clearly collateral damage in this dark social experiment of hers.

• Anyone ever got a call from PORTFOLIO RECOVERY AGENCY? I have no debt, and these assholes keep calling and hanging up. I never pick up the phone (agency's name appears on my Caller ID), but it bothers me that I get phone calls at all. You can't block them, because they have gazillion numbers. I did some research on line; they're possibly fishing for people's personal info, even if you do not have any past debts. What can I do to stop them from calling me?

• That old witch should be boiled in oil.

  Jennifer North

• R28, I think those are the people who started calling me after my Dad died to collect on a debt that went back at least 15 years. I told them I didn't handle the estate and then they started using a recording to call me every few days. It's real long message so it's hard to erase from your answering machine. It went on for about 2 years before they lost interest.

• Too bad federal regulates this.

• Don't you love how people automatically assume anyone who is in debt is some horrible stereotype of a lazy person who just spends money like water? In their world, it's OK when billionaires gamble with other people's money because the American taxpayer ends up paying for their irresponsible behavior, but don't you dare be a hardworking person who suddenly loses their job or gets cancer and ends up in debt because that's "your fault."