Payday Pundit

The Columbia, South Carolina City Council will discuss payday lending at a Sept. 24th meeting.  From the article: 

The issue is slated to be on the agenda of a Sept. 24 meeting when City Council addresses a variety of other code enforcement matters, including absentee landlords and portable storage units in yards.

It shouldn’t even be on the agenda, says Jamie Fulmer, a spokesman for Spartanburg-based Advance America, the nation’s largest payday lender.

Advance America “has good employees and it serves good middle class people” who simply need some short-term credit, Fulmer says. Advance America would like to be heard on the matter before the city takes any action, he says.

{Mayor} Coble says the council wants to consider all options.

Here’s an idea.  Why not let consumers “consider all options?”