Posted on 06/19/2007 5:08:18 AM PDT by Jarhead1957
June 18, 2007 Texas Governor Vetoes Eminent Domain Reform All Texans Remain Vulnerable to Abuse Arlington, Va.-On Friday, June 15, 2007, Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed HB 2006, an eminent domain reform measure that overwhelmingly passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature. The bill was designed to close a loophole that remained from an earlier bill Perry signed two years ago in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Kelo v. City of New London decision. Perry becomes only the fourth governor to veto an eminent domain bill since Kelo. In the three other states, however, reform still passed when the Iowa Legislature overrode one veto, New Mexico’s executive signed other reform legislation this year and Arizona reformed its laws by citizen initiative. “With this veto, Governor Perry has left every home, farm, ranch and small business owner vulnerable to the abuse of eminent domain,” said Steven Anderson, director of the Institute for Justice’s Castle Coalition, a national grassroots advocacy group committed to ending the private-to-private transfer of property using eminent domain. The bill would have closed the large loophole that remained after the enactment of SB 7, the 2005 legislation that allows local authorities to forcibly acquire private property for the purpose of so-called “slum” or “blight” removal. Under Texas law, the terms “slum” and “blight” are defined so broadly that they can be applied to any property, meaning no one’s property is safe. HB 2006 required, with certain limited exceptions, that all takings be made for a “public use,” which would have stopped eminent domain abuse throughout the state. HB 2006 also included procedural and compensation changes, and it was the latter that Perry cited as the reason for his veto. “Compensation concerns were totally overblown by government agencies,” Anderson said. “Comprehensive protection against eminent domain abuse for all Texans was scuttled because of unfounded fears that property acquisitions would cost substantially more. Dollars drive the abuse, and now dollars drive this veto. In both cases, the property owners are the ones who end up getting hurt.”
I won't be going Whooop for that Aggie again.
Did you really want a governor who’s greatest hit was a song entitled “ Waitress oh waitress come sit on my face”?
It embarrasses me just to think about him representing our state and I am not easily embarrassed.
Mental gymnastics.......
That was not a insult nor was it directed at you...."the hair & the issues"....can we stay on track?
I must say that the song is not a legacy or a proud moment for Kinky.....yet he is what you see and hear....
My primary concern is the politician that is not what he appears to be.........and never allows his real agenda to surface.
Oh, so rather than dealing with facts or substance you are saying they both spend more time making sure their hair is perfect than you do, so they must be the same. Oh, now I understand. Yes, your political analysis is brilliant. Now I see how you would come up with the notion that there is no difference between Gov. Perry and the Silk Pony.
Only because the cowardly legislooters aren't in session any more. If this had been important to them (as opposed to just being posturing), they would have passed the bill early enough to have been able to overcome the inevitable Perry veto.
Eminent domain: It was stupid for Perry to veto this change in state law. It is probably equally stupid to say "Perry just made it easier for big business to steal your property" since the result is that the law is still the same as it was. Since the law was passed so overwhelmingly, it should be fairly easy to include this law in the next legislative agenda and get it passed next time -- either over Perry's veto or with another governor to sign it.
Property taxes: Perry's proposal for property tax relief had some good and some not-so-good aspects. Something had to be done about the Robin Hood plan that so blatantly violated the state constitution ban on statewide property taxes.
Border: The ED issue at hand isn't really a border issue, but I guess the Border issue can be injected into discussion of any issue. Perry's policies on the border are no better and no worse than those of any other recent Texas state political figure. There's not much any state officeholder can doe in this regard other than using state resources to police and enforce existing laws. Perry has committed some state resources to border enforcement.
Still curious as to where "Perry is Edwards" fits in with these nice discussions of facts.
nailed it
I wish I'd of voted for Kinky as well.
you are dead on, correct.
Kinky shoulda won....
I thought his greatest hit was, “They don’t make Jews like Jesus, anymore”
And the land grab marches on,,,gotta have that “ROAD”...
That was a big hit but the other one was the most disgusting.
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys accompanied by his friend Little Jewford, will now sing “Waitress Oh Waitress Come Sit on My Face”!
Do you want me to give you the next line in the song, or do you remember it?
(I’d probably be kicked off FR if I repeated it so I won’t)
But of course. The serfs will just have to learn to like it, or they’ll be rounded up if they don’t.
Something tells me the “hellrazin’” in Texas ain’t started
yet...
Something tells you right. My oh my won’t everyone be surprised when it does!
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