"Rent Is Too Damn High" Guy Still Fighting Eviction

November 23, 2011, 4:00 pm

“Rent Is Too Damn High” Guy Still Fighting Eviction

The Daily News has an update on Jimmy “The Rent Is Too Damn High” McMillan’s fight against eviction from his $872-a-month one-bedroom apartment on St. Marks Place (his landlord claims he actually lives in Brooklyn). During a court hearing today, “the quirky ex-candidate acknowledged that he hasn’t paid federal incomes taxes for years.”

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