Posted on 01/25/2016 1:11:46 PM PST by huldah1776
In 1994 a New Jersey state agency known as the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) tried to seize the home of an elderly widow named Vera Coking, who lived just off of Atlantic City's famous beachfront boardwalk. In place of Coking's modest residence, state officials envisioned a new limousine parking lot for the neighboring Trump Plaza, the high-rise hotel and casino owned and operated by real estate tycoon Donald Trump.
Thankfully, this preposterous attempt to wield eminent domain on Trump's behalf was struck down in court. "What has occurred here is analogous to giving Trump a blank check with respect to future development on the property for casino hotel purposes," declared the Superior Court of New Jersey in a sharp ruling against the CRDA. Coking remained in her home.
Flash forward two decades, and the CRDA is back to its old dirty tricks. Today the Superior Court of New Jersey is hearing arguments in the case of Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Birnbaum. Once again, the state agency is trying to use eminent domain on behalf of a politically connected Atlantic City casino.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13215941806857520148&q=Casino+Reinvestment+Development+Authority+v.+Coking&hl=en&as_sdt=6,33
We went over this yesterday. She should have read “Art of the Deal” and taken the $1.8 mil for that rat trap. She was unduly influenced by her relatives. She lost. End of story.
Keystone Pipeline.
For it?
People get paid well above market price for roadways, pipelines, and developments that produce big tax revenue.
Often holdouts just want more $$$.
Yup. She bought it for what...20K? And in less then 20 years could have sold it for $1.8 mil...more then generous compensation.
Instead of the million plus he offered, she may have gotten 600,000 - if that.
Brilliant! BRILLIANT!!!
The Weekly Standard did an article on it yesterday (I was watching the Trump documentaries all afternoon)...
‘”His ad is wrong because I never knocked down that house. I wanted to get that house to build a building that would have employed tremendous numbers of people. But when the woman didn’t want to sell, ultimately I said forget about it,” Trump said.”’
[HE LOST HIS CASE IN COURT]
Donald Trump fights for what he wants.
He went to court against a New Jersey widow to take her house for his Casino, an Arab themed beautiful design, like an Arabian themed motel of the 60’s. It was brilliant.
He goes to court for real things, important things. Business and jobs.
The housewife beat him, but that was just a fluke.
Ted Cruz goes to court for dumb things.
He argues boring cases at the Supremem Court. And he wins.
But it’s dull, boring.
No one cares, they aren’t important and have no significance.
Trumps law suits are about something.
Yes, I am for it. I'm not for government taking private property from one person and giving to another person. If you need to connect a road or build a bridge across someone's land, you may have a point. But building a casino is not a government project.
I have to say that while I have consumate hatred for our worthless governor Jerry The Fairy Brown, he has done one thing that I do commend him for, and that is doing away with all our municipal “Redevelopment Agencies.” These crooks have been using “blight laws” where blight doesn’t exist to take property, hand it over to private entities, and at the same time, take the RE off the property tax rolls for an extended period of time. That last “feature” just serves to boost the taxes of the rest of us suckers while the fat cats get unfair deals on the properties involved along with cheap government financing for their “projects.” The government needs to be completely out of the “redevelopment business.”
1994?
Supposedly The Donald talked back to his parents once back around 1952 when he was a kid and it has been reported that sometime around 1958 he hung out with some other kid who smoked cigarettes he snuck from his mother’s purse.
Missed the discussion and did do a search for the Title but it didn’t come up. Hopefully others will see it because if I missed it someone else did, too. Thanks for letting me know. I would like to read the replies, do you remember the title?
I thought it was her 29-room boarding house.
Nothing says "home" like a snug little place for you and 20-odd strangers...
The casino case was 1994. Good year! My jeep is that old. :)
She lost if her only motivation was money. I can’t believe what I’m reading here these days. Any old thing goes if it is Donald Trump saying or doing it.
Having been to Atlantic City several times, I’m confident in saying the term Eminent Domain was invented for the blocks behind the casinos. It was the very definition of urban blight.
Not in my experience. Trump’s offer was extraordinary. In NJ, the developers offer a pittance for the homes of middle-class people who live on the ocean. A pittance.
Nice. Heartwarming, too. I wish Cruz would side with Paul and defend the unborn. I may have to vote for Paul because God loves Paul’s defense of the innocent and hates child sacrifice. If God hates it, doesn’t matter how much Trump loves building things. One earthquake or meteor...I think the meteors are first.
I’ve known 5 widows who hate change, can’t take it, and just want to stay home or do what is familiar (probably be close to loved ones). Money doesn’t matter, or should I say, priceless.
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