Rep. John Patrick Burnett a Democrat representing a district in Kansas City, MO calls the Payday Pundit a “phony blog.”  Representative Burnett, just because you don’t agree with something doesn’t make it phony.

There is nothing phony about the hundreds of people employed by payday lenders in Missouri.  Or the tens of thousands of hard-working Missourians who appreciate access to cash between paychecks and use payday loans to avoid bounced check/overdraft and late bill payment fees.

Rep. Burnett, if you were to simply click on the “about us” section, you’d find that Payday Pundit is the official blog of the Community Financial Services Association of America, the national trade association of payday lenders.   CFSA members operate around 288 storefronts in Missouri and 150 in Kansas.