Group asks sheriff to postpone foreclosure sales

This headline caught my attention but after reading the whole article I believe they will be looking for "state" money. That aside we should get down there and protest the unconstitutionality of sheriff sales. While doing so we can present the sheriff with a list of their proper function in a constitutional republic. Here is the rest of the article found on www.post-gazette.com

Monday, June 04, 2007

By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The activist group ACORN wants to put shutters on the monthly sheriff's sales of properties in Allegheny County.

ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"I'm passionate about it because there's nothing like seeing people, especially young people, trying to get started and to see their things being set out on the curb," group spokesman Linda Lee of Homewood said at a press conference this morning.

She and four other members of the group spoke with reporters outside the county Courthouse before seeking a meeting with Sheriff William Mullen, who was on vacation today.

Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Rizzo said his boss is trying to arrange a meeting with ACORN, "to hear their ideas and to listen to their requests."

The Sheriff's Department, which publishes in the Post-Gazette the list of foreclosed properties to be sold monthly, already includes lists of agencies that assist homeowners who face foreclosure sales.

The sheriff also is preparing a booklet with more detailed direction.

ACORN wants more. The group wants the sheriff to declare a six-month moratorium on the foreclosure sales until more help is available.

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency is working on a program specifically to assist homeowners who signed bad deals with variable mortgage interest rates. The interest costs, in many instances, eventually explode and leave financially strapped homeowners homeless.