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To: NonValueAdded; All
I may have missed your point. Are you saying that you support this "rescue" plan by taking peoples homes who do not want to sell?
We live in a constitutional republic not a democracy to protect the rights of those who are not the majority
48 posted on 12/08/2005 8:51:21 PM PST by vrwc0915
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To: vrwc0915

No, I am saying that a healthy majority of those who voted as recently as this past March put / kept the Mayor in office. The county web site doesn't give turnout statistics for the towns but I suspect there are more than 5,090 registered voters in Riviera Beach. Yes it is a Constitutional Republic but you have SCOTUS deeming the taking as constitutional and therefore the only recourse left is through the ballot box. I assume most of the 6,000 residents facing the taking are registered voters so it seems highly likely that as a block they could nip this in the bud locally. But they didn't. I sympathize with their plight but only to a point if they are not motivated enough to cast a ballot.


49 posted on 12/08/2005 9:01:37 PM PST by NonValueAdded (What ever happened to "Politics stops at the water's edge?")
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