Posted on 06/01/2008 8:52:31 PM PDT by ParsifalCA
Sleight-of-hand relies heavily on misdirection and distraction. The Proposition 99 campaign tries the same trick on voters, attempting to get Californians to look only where it wants, while ignoring the most important issues in eminent domain reform.
Proposition 99 was crafted because Proposition 98 had qualified for the ballot with a good chance of winning, backed by many documented abuses of emotionally appealing little guys steamrollered by the politically powerfuli.e., to defend the beneficiaries of eminent domain abuse against real reform.
99 does nothing to restrict eminent domain to justifiable public uses. It protects only owner-occupied primary residences, while undermining even that protection by maintaining all the loopholes now used to circumvent property protections, such as bogus claims of blight. It does nothing to challenge abuses or help owners get full compensation for their losses. 98 addresses all those issues. In other words, 99 offers the most minuscule change supporters could call reform"... [more @ CaliforniaRepublic]
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Three yes 98, three no 99 here. The rent control provision supplied the money for the advertising. That’s politics. Like all lib ideas, rent controls never made sense to me.
But that was it's whole purpose. The emminent domain issue was merely a cover. Rent control should be a local issue, particularly where large groups of really elderly seniors are concerned. Why should the state be able to take that local lawmaking ability away from local governments?
Why should the Feds enforce the Second Amendment against DC, or make laws against slavery?
That tension between local representation and higher level enforcement has always been there.
Looks like we're going to have to do this again in two years and do it right once and for all and not overreach.
Especially when avarice will suffice.
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