Quote of the Day

There’s This Hysteria That We Apparently Have a Gang Problem, but What We Have Is a Slumlord Problem in the City of Aurora

—Aurora City Councilwoman Alison Coombs as quoted by the Denver Post

A slumlord operating buildings in Aurora, Coloradowho has been sued by multiple times by the city of Aurora as well as by current and former tenants.

They have been so bad at this that the city has already closed down one of the apartments operated by CBZ Management, LLC. (They have refused to provide legally mandated assistance to the tenants evicted as a result)

In response to their cruelty and greed, they hired a PR firm and started claiming that the problem was that Venezuelan criminal gangs had taken over the complexes.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman (a Republican) made extensive statements to this effect, as has the Donald Trump campaign.

As to CBZ management, they are located in Brooklyn, New York, and the owner is Zev Baumgarten, and two other senior managers are Shalom Baumgarten and Shmary Baumgarten.

Yeah, these jerks are Jewish.  It's a Shanda Fur die Goyim.

As Shalom Alechem once wrote, "Shver TSU Zayn a Yid (שװער צו זײן א איד)."*

They have used these claims to get delays in its trials.

CBZ is run by horrible people, and should be shunned by all people of good will:

The frenzy over a Venezuelan gang’s presence in Aurora reached a fever pitch over the holiday weekend, fueled in part by viral video of men with guns knocking on an apartment door and by a presidential election in which immigration and border security will be key issues for voters.

Right-wing social media influencers and citizen journalists seized on video shared by Denver’s Fox31 television station showing armed men at an Aurora apartment complex, often adding their own captions and commentary, as it made the rounds on TikTok, X and Facebook.

Even former President Donald Trump weighed in during a podcast interview, repeating unverified claims that gangs were taking over big buildings with “big rifles” in the city.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman appeared on national TV and posted about the Venezuelan gang on his Facebook page, contradicting his police chief about the severity of the situation, and saying the city was preparing to go to court to get a judge’s order to clear out the apartment complexes where the Tren de Aragua gang operates. However, city staff on Tuesday said that is not the immediate plan.

Aurora and Denver police have publicly acknowledged there are Tren de Aragua gang members in their cities, but they say the gang’s numbers are not large and they operate in isolated areas. Others say the Tren de Aragua presence in Aurora, a city of nearly 400,000 people, has been overhyped.

“Those stories are really overblown. If you didn’t live here, you would swear we were being taken over by a gang and Aurora was under siege,” Aurora City Councilwoman Stephanie Hancock said Tuesday. “That’s simply not true.”

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“There’s this hysteria that we apparently have a gang problem, but what we have is a slumlord problem in the city of Aurora,” City Councilwoman Alison Coombs said.

This makes me sick to my stomach.

^*It's tough to be a Jew.