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To: D-fendr; Chgogal; Greetings_Puny_Humans
I think for your debate to improve in quality, it should be noted there are different reasons here for claiming emminent domain for personal property:

1) limousine parking lot for a privately-owned hotel

2) 3,000 mile pipeline

You would think that would be a good argument, and I would have gladly made that point.

However on this very thread we've seen a Trump supporter impugn Ms. Coking and call her a "blackmailer", so some Trump supporters seem to be adopting the Clinton strategy of attacking anyone who questions the past motives, policies, and actions of their chosen candidate. They might as well have said "Drag a dollar bill through Atlantic City and you're bound to find an old widow blackmailing Trump", even though she didn't want to sell and was in no conceivable position to "blackmail" anyone.

The poster also called me an 'idiot' for saying that Trump should be ashamed of his actions, so taking all of that into account, going directly back to the 5th Amendment seems to be the only way to prove the point.

76 posted on 09/15/2015 6:20:35 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
The poster also called me an 'idiot' for saying that Trump should be ashamed of his actions, so taking all of that into account, going directly back to the 5th Amendment seems to be the only way to prove the point.

Well, you are. This one example-- and you only got one-- went to court by the government of NJ and the judge rejected it anyway. That's the law and it obviously went towards the resident in that case. So why should Trump be ashamed for using the law? It might be cute to hold a position where eminent domain is always wrong. But when you have one person holding up development of a crappy neighborhood because they want 2 million instead of one million for property they paid 60 or 75 thousand for not long prior, that's certainly a justified case to take to court. I am quite correct in my characterization of her as a blackmailer. They ended up selling the land later for less than what Trump offered in the end.

80 posted on 09/15/2015 3:14:37 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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