[texastoo]

I know you are one fair minded person on this forum who looks up the truth when available. I try to do the same so I am going to share this little tidbit with you.

On another thread someone gave the website of Bracewell and Guiliani Law Firm in Houston. Knowing eminent domain is one of the biggies in Texas now, I decided to do a little research. This is what I found:

http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/24/news-bspower-04-24.html


excerpt:

"Regional Interconnect has hired Couch White, one of Albany's leading and best-connected lobbying law firms. In Washington, they're represented by Bracewell & Giuliani.

Not only does the law firm bear the name of "America's mayor," it also boasts several former top officials from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on its payroll.

That's significant because Regional Interconnect is asking the federal government to declare its proposed route an "electric transmission corridor of national interest."

If granted that distinction, which was first created in last year's Energy Policy Act, FERC could give Regional Interconnect the power to take private land by eminent domain."

[calcowgirl]

Thanks! I never went down that path in any research, but I've been wondering where Rudy stood on Kelo (also what his position on Kyoto and NAFTA/CAFTA/etc might be). I can guess, but hadn't looked into it.