Mortgage bankers are urging lawmakers in an affluent Maryland county to repeal a controversial ordinance that links predatory lending to discrimination – and could subject lenders to hefty fines. In a letter sent to Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Maryland Association of Mortgage Bankers and the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington urged the council to move quickly to repeal ordinance 36-04.