[calex59]

Good old Arnold, he doesn't care what it cost people, take their land, tax them blind, who cares as long as the government gets their share and he can appease his wife.

[Shermy]

The Californians did this before. Instead of creating a law that simply says EM cannot be used for private purposes, the proposers of the new law tack on all sorts of other things in their peculiar interests.

[Shermy]

EM?

I meant ED, eminent domain.

;)

[bubbacluck]

Proposition 98 bans the use of eminent domain to transfer property to a private party,....It bans taking property for its natural resources.

This is a good thing.

How can a Republican Governor be against this...oh, wait, never mind.

[South40]

We need this law to prevent instances such as this.

[DesScorp]

Eminent Domain should be a measure of last resort for public projects, not private. It should go for infrastructure stuff, period. Anything else is theft.

[Lizavetta]

Maybe he got his marching orders from the skirt:

[LexBaird]

Well, Arnold, it’s nice to see that when developers and enviral nuts buy your support, it stays bought.

[Wuli]

since it would only inhibit the abuse of eminent domain in the government forced transfer of land between private owners, is it arnold’s point that PRIVATE developers of “water” and other “infrastructure” projects should not have to use their own resources to coax out the sellers of the land they need????

[goldstategop]

Thank goodness! Where would California be with property rights? Or that what's the Governator wants the state's residents to believe.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Wayne07]

Voting for arnold is the vote i regret most in my life. Hopefully McCain doesn’t trump it.

[hedgetrimmer]

Good thing we have a Republican for governor!

[SoConPubbie]

America, don’t look now, but this is what a John McCain Presidency will look like.

[newzjunkey]

I might have to vote YES on 98. The ads on radio are terrible.

[SierraWasp]

This is even more blatant than I would have expected. Two of the most conservative organizations supported him right from the start: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and The California Farm Bureau Federation!

He's done nothing but crap on their collective heads with the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy and now even THIS!!! What have the good, solid people of CA done to deserve this treatment from this political hermaphrodite??? He's worse than Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson put together!!!