Donald Trump and Eminent Domain ".....That brings us to the story of the aforementioned elderly widow in Atlantic City, which starts at about the same time. The woman, Vera Coking, had owned property near the Trump Plaza Hotel for three decades, and didn’t want to move. Trump thought the land was better suited for use as a park, a parking lot, and a waiting area for limousines.
He tried to negotiate, at one point offering Coking $1 million for the land. But she wasn’t budging. So New Jersey’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority filed a lawsuit, instructing Coking to leave within 90 days and offering compensation of only $251,000.
Perhaps the only upside to this story is that in neither case did Trump succeed. The Bridgeport plan fizzled. Coking fought in court, and — in part because these were the days before Kelo was decided, no doubt — she was lucky enough to win. In 1998, a judge threw out the case.
In 2005, however, Trump was delighted to find that the Supreme Court had okayed the brand of government-abetted theft that he’d twice attempted. “I happen to agree with it 100 percent,” he told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto of the Kelo decision.
Can Republicans support someone with so little regard for the property of others? Let’s hope not."
He PAYS for what he wants, so are you calling his ex wife a prostitute now.
Actually there is a public interest in using a property for its highest and best use. Obvious her property was near a commercial area and cities all the time use eminent domain or something to take properties when it is needed.
Best example of this would be homes taken to expand a freeway.
Though we like people to in general use their property as they wish, in general it is common to pay and move people when it cost too much tax revenue on the floor by not acting.
how’s your boy Rick Perry doing?.. has he figured out what that third thing was yet?
Besides being a very old story, she did not take the million and her grandson finally sold the property to Ichan for around $500,000.
Also, the "story" began in the 70s, long before Trump owned the land that was to become Trump Plaza (everyone forgets that little point).