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Four bills on rent control sponsored by State Rep. Philip Travis (D. Bristol) were discussed before the House Local Affairs Committee, amidst cheers and jeers by a vociferous audience of members of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which was responsible for drafting the bills, and rent control activists who want to maintain the status...
...political level, much of the discussion focused on the propriety of the way the bills were pushed by SPOA and Travis...
Councillor Jonathan S. Myers, the first speaker on the issue, opened the debate with objections to both the context of the ordinance and the way in which SPOA was dealing with the issue...
...SPOA President John Natale, who testified yesterday in a prisoner's outfit complete with ball and chain, told the committee, "This is not theater...
Natale said Monday that SPOA is now trying to undermine rent control because a bill the group spon- sored last year to abolish it failed. "We want to abolish rent control. We're doing everything in our power to do that-chip away, take a nibble, get it all at once...