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| 6/2/08
| Gary M. Galles
Posted on 06/01/2008 8:52:31 PM PDT by ParsifalCA
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To: ParsifalCA
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.
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posted on
06/01/2008 11:00:00 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
To: Carry_Okie
Trying to kill rent control was the kiss of death for 98.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?
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posted on
06/02/2008 1:31:24 AM PDT
by
at bay
("We actually did an evil......" Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google)
To: at bay
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.
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posted on
06/02/2008 2:42:49 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(We have people in power with desire for evil.)
To: Carry_Okie; calcowgirl
Trying to kill rent control was the kiss of death for 98.
Indeed. Instead of having to argue about the struggle between the property owner and Big Government's hostile takeover of property, I've had to argue
ad nauseum about the merits of rent control from our "compassionate" government, and the battle between tenants and the
eeeeeeeeeeevil landlords. Cripes.
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.
To: Carry_Okie
Trying to kill rent control was the kiss of death for 98.
It seems to me like greed and bad judgement on the part of the people who wrote the proposition. (I don't mean greed for money--I mean greed to get everything they want.) In fact, such bad judgement that it might almost be deliberate sabotage.
There's a law that says a proposition can only address one issue. I know, there's rationalizations that say that eminent domain and rent control are really the same issue, but come on....
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posted on
06/02/2008 12:48:47 PM PDT
by
Mariebl
To: Mariebl
Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Especially when avarice will suffice.
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posted on
06/02/2008 1:04:07 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(We have people in power with desire for evil.)
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