I remember the time I called 911 more than eight years ago like it was yesterday. One morning my infant son, Drew, started to choke. Our concern turned to panic when our efforts to clear his airway failed and he began to turn blue.
Several days ago, I received an e-mail from a distressed constituent in Bonney Lake who is faced with losing his home to foreclosure. He’s an upstanding citizen, pays his taxes, volunteers in the community and is a real estate agent who operates his own small business. He’s also been hit very hard by the downturn in the economy, especially as housing sales plummeted. As his sources of income began to evaporate with the housing crisis, he began having trouble making his house payment. Seeing little options, he turned to the federal government’s foreclosure prevention program through his bank.
