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.

[steve-b]

Unfortunately, it turns out that contempt for private property rights is one of the prerequisites for a job with Air America.

I can send you an application, if you like.

[Stellar Dendrite]

hey, havent seen you around in a while! :D

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I've been around...lurking.