Daily News | Protestors tell Norristown officials not to bus homeless out of town
In the wake of a controversy about how Norristown officials are treating people in homeless encampments, a small and quiet group of protesters gathered at a borough council meeting Tuesday night.
Busing indigent people without homes would be “immoral,” Lepera told a group of around 50 community members and anti-poverty advocates in the council’s meeting room. “I’m not trying to start a war with poor people,” he said. “I’m not anti-homeless.” Last week, Kingsley said Lepera told him he wants to be the “Norristown Gov. [Greg] Abbott” of Texas, who hasBoth Sena and Eric Tars, legal director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Homelessness Law Center, said Lepera told them about busing people living homeless. And they referenced a GIF that had been posted on Lepera’s Facebook page by State Rep. Greg Marcus Scott that depicted a person lying in a moving bus from the waist up, with their legs being dragged along the ground.
Defending the council president, John Fennell, 42, of Norristown, and the chief of staff for state Rep. Napoleon Nelson , said outside the meeting, “Tommy’s a good guy. He shouldn’t have said what he said. But his frustration has boiled over with the homelessness issue. Mine has, too.” The letter expressed concern that any sweep might result in people’s possessions being destroyed or disposed of without being stored for residents to retrieve later.
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