Lisa Kay Ruetz

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Dont let go of the family at the center of yesterday's Supreme Court property tax ruling.

In 1991, Scott Pung bought a small three-bedroom home on half an acre for his wife and two children. It was their family home. When Scott died in 2004, his wife stayed there. When she died in 2008, their son and his family stayed. Same home, same family, more than two decades.

The whole time, it was their primary residence, taxed at the lower rate Michigan gives a family home. Then in 2010 an assessor decided, wrongly, that they should be taxed as if it were a second home. The family took it to court and won. The tribunal ruled they did not owe it.

The assessor's response, in her own words about the judge who ruled for the family: "I don't care what he says." She imposed the tax again. She left it off the original bill and added it later. When the family came in to pay, they brought a driver's license to prove it was their home, and paid what they actually owed.

It did not matter. Over roughly $2,242 that they did not owe and had already beaten in court, the county foreclosed. A trial court tried to give the home back over a notice failure. The county appealed to stop that. In 2018, after 27 years, the family permanently lost the home Scott Pung bought in 1991.

This is what the property tax can do. Not in theory. To a real family, over a bill that was never owed, because one official decided she did not care what the court said. And the Supreme Court said the Constitution will not make that family whole.

I reached out to the Pung family, and they gave me their blessing to share their story and this photo. My thanks to them, and my respect for the fight they carried all the way to the highest court in the land. It will help families they will never meet.

This is exactly why we are working to end the tax that made it possible.

Photo of Marc and Tia Pung at the U.S. Supreme Court, shared with their permission.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

I gave up salt sugar and caffeine. It’s been a rough 30 minutes.

[Madu @madureports]

Yes, I was supporting the streamers outside Nancy’s Guthrie house. I’m not anymore. After seeing people’s true colors, I have every right and enough maturity to change my opinion and publicly say I no longer agree with that kind of behavior. I’m grown and unlike most people online, I don’t need to follow what the crowd thinks is acceptable.

If that bothers you, the unfollow button is right there. To everyone new here: welcome. Let’s get back to talking about true crime and investigations.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Following public calls—including from @ElonMusk—that 7-year-old Athena Strand’s kiIIer be executed, FedEx driver Tanner Horner has just been sentenced to DEATH by the State of Texas

GREAT.

Now do it PUBLICLY. Make an example out of this subhuman scumbag.

[Prisca ❤️🇺🇲🫡 @priscabdrO]

JUST ANNOUNCED 🚨

The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray is asking the Harris County DA for the death penalty for the two monsters that raped and murdered her 12 year old daughter

Raise your hand ✋️ if you want Governor Abbott to sign their death warrant

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@MagnoliaXRio Magnolia, would you please come on my youtube channel for a little bit. I want to educate people on how hard it is to leave a DV situation. Im planning on a woman's shelter and another woman or two that have also survived. All friendly. No trolls.

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@TechLayoffLover Go to trade school. That's where the high paying jobs are.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

She spent 5 years in Congress, quit the day she was eligible for her pension, and walked away worth 28 million dollars.

Such a rebel - 😂😂😂 what a fraud.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

In 25 years no one is going to remember a phone call. No one is going to remember what an opinion writer at The Athletic wrote. No one is going to remember a morning show segment . No one is going to remember a state of the union address. No one is going to remember what any Canadian journalist wrote.

But this photograph will still be there. And that's all this is about.

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@EvieMarie1435 @NicoleArbour How so?

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@odinburgerson @NicoleArbour @grok Crickets

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@LGwiscochick @NicoleArbour I'm confused as to why anyone believes anything she says.

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

You seem like a nutcase with a grudge. I haven't seen any evidence of anything. Just you flapping your jaws.

[Nicole Arbour @NicoleArbour]

I was just warned that JellyRoll apparently hired 20 influencers to post hit pieces on me.

Just more good Christian values on display.

Expect nonsense lies about me incoming!

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@GeriPerna @mailabull Of course not! Missing white woman syndrome is the rule the media lives by. Unless you are blond haired blue eyed you are SOL

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

I was in the Facebook group that Banfield got all her scoops from. 😆 She got tired of people talking smack about her and went off on us one day! 😆

[🅲🆃🆁🅻 🅰🅻🆃 🅳🅴🅵🅴🅰🆃 @Nerdy_Addict]

For two weeks, people ran with the notion that Savannah Guthrie’s family was somehow involved, a theory pushed to the masses by Ashleigh Banfield and her so called well placed source.

I pushed back immediately on the claim, pointing to Banfield’s previous reporting during the Idaho Four case, when Coffindaffer read a Facebook post, called it her source, claimed Bryan Kohberger was Pappa Rodger, and Banfield ran with it.

That history is exactly why I didn’t put any faith in this latest claim.

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

Amazing. And his favorite color is purple 💜

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

He plays like he's been through 2 divorces, has 4 children, cirrhosis, and smokes 4 packs a day

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@RishiMishr91488 @Rochevdl_ Someone in New Zealand hacked mine. I had some cool stickers when I got it back. Thankfully they didn't use my Master's balls. Niantic was very helpful.

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@baalzamon35 After a bit of research, this is Trump and Ivanka or Tiffany on his private jet.

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

College football coaches everywhere zipping up their flys

[Cam Robertson @CamRobertsonn]

BREAKING: In a file obtained by The Messenger via public records request, former Ohio HC Brian Smith was accused of having an extramarital affair with an undergraduate student.

This is stated in the notice of intent to terminate employment sent on 12/12.

Full document below 👇🏼

[Lisa Kay Ruetz @quilltr]

@diane_mcla96610 @CFBONFOX Or his significant other.