Take action now to crack down on payday lenders.

Vivian Paige asks for citizens to write their delegates to support repealing the Payday Loan Act of 2002, which exempted payday lenders from usury laws. The House Commerce and Labor Committee will be taking a vote on this on December 5. I’ll be curious to see what AG Bob McDonnell tries to do with this bill: he received $75,750 in campaign contributions from payday loan companies, but knew they were shameful enough that he hid it until after the election.

Published by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »