Posted on 02/07/2016 9:24:25 AM PST by jimbo123
Following attacks from primary rival Jeb Bush about his past use of eminent domain, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Sunday accused the Bush family of using the practice to build a baseball stadium in Texas.
"Eminent domain is a very important thing," Trump said on ABC's "This Week." "Jeb Bush doesn't understand what it means, and if you look into the Bush family - I found this five minutes ago - they used eminent domain for the stadium in Texas, where they own, I guess, a piece of the Texas Rangers."
When host George Stephanopoulos said that was Jeb's brother, former President George W. Bush, Trump said his point still stands.
"That doesn't matter," he said. "It was the Bush family. They used private eminent domain. He didn't tell anybody this. So, I mean, he should have told people."
"Maybe - he probably doesn't know because I don't think he even knows what eminent domain is," he added.
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SHeesh. Doesn't that guy ever get tired of being a partisan hack?
Clinton used it for his library.
The federal over reach and siezure of private property
Jacki speaks with British author Rupert Darwall, international finance specialist and former Advisor to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Global Warming movement, its goals and methods. She also is joined by Rob Henneke of the Texas Public Policy Foundation to discuss the suit versus the federal government over their seizure of private property along the Red River.
https://soundcloud.com/jacki-daily/federal-seizure-of-private-property
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Fighting the BLM
http://jackidaily.com/2016/01/08/fighting-the-blm/
Texans on the Red River awaken one day to find that the BLM has declared their ranches to be within the Red River and under BLM control. Landowners organize to fight for the land that has been theirs for generations, and TPPs Rob Henneke is leading the fight.
THAT is what stinking rich folks DO.
I have absolutely NO problem with that.
It was worth it, just to give Mr. 100 MPH pitcher a place to SHINE. :o)
eminent domain is like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
The story back then was George W. Bush owned part of the team with friends and sold it that is how he got rich and went on to other riches. I don’t have a problem with either one. When I was a small child in Atlanta, The airport took our home for the runway, it is just life...Jeb stepped off on this one when his own family has used it...
Well if so, they should not have been allowed to.
The point was that Jeb should be the last one complaining about eminent domain. I thought Trump hit it out of the park with that disclosure.
Half the GOPe donors in the debate audience most likely have benefited from the use of eminent domain. They’re hypocrites.
I didn't watch the debate but I am positive that you read it correctly.
From the details it might be that the stadium was not built by the Bushes. It is deceptive if they did not build the stadium and Trump is just pointing to the fact that the stadium was built that way and the Bushes have an interest i the team.
Regardless, the fact that someone else did the wrong thing does not excuse you from doing the wrong thing. And there is no family guilt. Jeb is not W.
Its usually a win win for all involved. I knew someone who made a fortune selling his corner bar to the city of West Allis Wisconsin. The city paid the alcoholics, err, I mean tenants who lived above it a pretty sum for moving expenses. If someone showed up at my door today and offered 3 times fair market value, I couldn’t pack fast enough.
An airport is not the same as a casino.
Trump for President.
What the federal government is doing on the Red River is not eminent domain. It is much worse.
Under eminent domain, the government decides that they want your property, seizes it and then has to pay you for it. If you don’t agree to the price that the government offers to pay then you have a right to a trial by jury to determine the value of the property seized.
On the Red River, a federal agency decided they wanted the property so they simply declared that the federal government already owns it. No compensation, no trial, just get off the land that has been privately owned for the past 150 years or so.
Yeb! and the rest have a specious argument.
Eminent domain, the Keystone pipeline — do you consider that a private job? Do you — do you consider that...
BUSH: I consider it a public use.
TRUMP: No — no, let me ask you, Jeb.
(BELL RINGS)
Do you consider the Keystone pipeline private?
BUSH: It’s a public use. It’s a public use.
TRUMP: Is it public or private?
BUSH: It’s a public use. TRUMP: Real — a public use?
BUSH: Yeah.
TRUMP: No, it’s a private job.
BUSH: It’s a public use.
TRUMP: It’s a private job.
BUSH: Established by the courts — federal, state courts.
TRUMP: You wouldn’t have the Keystone pipeline that you want so badly without eminent domain
“The point was that Jeb should be the last one complaining about eminent domain. I thought Trump hit it out of the park with that disclosure.”
Trump sure did. Shoved it right back down Jeb’s throat. Jeb got schlonged.
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