PRO-KELO REPUBLICANS

Townhall.com ^ | Jan 28, 2006 | Robert Novak

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The nation's Republican mayors, in a closed-door White House meeting last week, nearly unanimously supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo decision permitting local governments to force property owners to sell or give way to private developers.

The GOP mayors, in Washington for the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting, heard a report on the Kelo decision by Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Michael A. Guido. Chairman of the conference's advisory board, Guido opposed undermining the Supreme Court's ruling.

Anaheim, Calif., Mayor Curt Pringle, a former speaker of the California Assembly, objected with arguments that reflected widespread Republican abhorrence of Kelo. Guido insisted the mayors support local government's authority, and not a single additional mayor rose in support of Pringle.

[Impeach98]

Thanks for posting.

Thanks also to Anaheim Mayor, Curt Pringle, for standing up for principle.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

"It's got to be done at a State or Local level... our national legislators won't do a thing about it."

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Not only "won't", but absolutely SHOULD NOT.

If there is anybody who thinks the Federal Government has ultimate responsibility and authority over LOCAL land use/planning & zoning decisions, you might as well go to your City Hall, fire everybody in sight and let Congress take over.

You really like that picture?

I've been listening to this bunch of BS about greedy developers and corrupt city official forcing poor ol' Aunty Em out of her humble ancestral home until I'm about to spit up my lunch. It may have helped ratings for some talk shows, but IMO it has accomplished little but shill for some lawyers whose clients are on the losing side of city or county land use or urban renewal plans, but think they can use the national media to jawbone their way into something that they haven't been able to get past the courts.

Styling it as an "eminent domain" issue is only slightly less phoney than the wailing about Aunty Em's shanty. My biggest shock about the case was that the Supreme Court even consented to hear it in the first place.

Okay, I spent a few years as a city councilman and later was appointed to a local planning & zoning authority that actually (gasp, shudder)set up an Urban Renewal District that affected a bunch of landowners. (If that makes me a corrupt local pol, maybe somebody can explain why I'm not at least a little richer.)

If you think that your local officials are a bunch of crooks who would throw you out of your house for a buck, maybe you should start by replacing the bums. If you think you're going to change anything by making a local bunch of crooks more accountable by passing a Federal law, maybe you should check the past couple of months' coverage of, say, the Senate Judiciary Committee.

[wolfcreek]

I quit the respendican party in 2003, I am now a Conservative independent.


Pleases say your not gonna vote for the Mad Grandma or freakin Kinky!

[TXBSAFH]

If I vote at all it will be a protest for Kinky, but I am leaning to not voting.

[Mr. Blonde]

This is going to be a very important issue in my town soon. The university wants to build an athletic village right next to the arena and football stadium. That area is full of houses and apartment complexes. Most of the houses are rental property but some have people who own them and have lived there for some time. Understandably they don't want to leave, but the university has said they will use eminent domain if necessary. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone sue to get to stay there.

[OldArmy52]

Today, the Republicans are the same as the Dem's were, decades ago...moderates mostly. Bush is a moderate.

Today, the Democrats resemble most closely, the Reds.

[Pessimist]

"Who said republican were conservative"

Coming from Ohio, certainly not me...

This is absolutely disgusting...

[Pessimist]

"Didn't we WIN the last election?"

'Pends on the meaning of the word "we"..

[Pessimist]

"Not if you live in TX.."

Ditto up hear in the rust belt. The RNC is 4 square behind any incumbent - regardless of their past or future behavior.

[Pessimist]

"STOP BUYING VOTES WITH MY MONEY!"

We should print that on signs and shadow Bush for the rest of his days...

[Pessimist]

Welp, since we're "addicted to oil" maybe we'll have to cut down the tree of liberty to keep our @sses from freezing next winter.

[Pessimist]

"Socialism fast or socialism slow what is the big difference"

As far as I'm concerned, that's all we can affect by voting, and then its only a maybe.

[Euro-American Scum]

Nothing is more important than the bottom line of our largest corporations.

[Pessimist]

Yup. You got it.

There has been a consistent drift to the left my whole life.

I've said it many times: JFK would be to the right of JWB today.

[Euro-American Scum]

Without secure property rights freedom anc capitalism can not exist for long.

But feudalism will do very nicely, thank you very much.

[RightWhale]

Can a candidate win on a campaign that requires serious thinking?

[Stellar Dendrite]

Interesting how these threads only generate a handful of responses.

[Euro-American Scum]

I have the 2nd Amendment: evict me at your own peril.

Enjoy it while it's still here. It doesn't figure to last at this rate.

[Stellar Dendrite]

hear, hear

[DTogo]

FMCDH!