Posted on 01/25/2016 1:11:46 PM PST by huldah1776
In 1994 a New Jersey state agency known as the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) tried to seize the home of an elderly widow named Vera Coking, who lived just off of Atlantic City's famous beachfront boardwalk. In place of Coking's modest residence, state officials envisioned a new limousine parking lot for the neighboring Trump Plaza, the high-rise hotel and casino owned and operated by real estate tycoon Donald Trump.
Thankfully, this preposterous attempt to wield eminent domain on Trump's behalf was struck down in court. "What has occurred here is analogous to giving Trump a blank check with respect to future development on the property for casino hotel purposes," declared the Superior Court of New Jersey in a sharp ruling against the CRDA. Coking remained in her home.
Flash forward two decades, and the CRDA is back to its old dirty tricks. Today the Superior Court of New Jersey is hearing arguments in the case of Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Birnbaum. Once again, the state agency is trying to use eminent domain on behalf of a politically connected Atlantic City casino.
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You sure wandered off the reservation on my post. I take it you’re not a Trump supporter?
She doesn't live there any more.
Reality set in, and she's a few million lighter in learning the lesson of reality. :)
It may not have been about the money. My guess is that she held on to the home in hopes that her kids would eventually move back to NJ, and they would have a place to stay while house-hunting. The amounts requested were perhaps an excuse to fob off her kids' request that she move to CA. I've encountered situations like this, including one where a Holocaust survivor finally moved out of his apartment in his 90's, after he felt he could no longer manage. Having to trade familiar surroundings to be with your kids is very, very hard. They can start over. The elderly have a much harder road.
Oh please my mother is 87 years old if Trump offered her millions for her home worth 400,000 she’s lived there 40 years the moving van would be there within the hour!!!
I’ve always wanted to live by myself next to a Casino parking lot...
Thank you for making the essential point here.
I’ve always wanted to live by myself next to a Casino parking lot...Ahhhh, the patrons would pee on you when walking by. Unless you meant in a HOUSE next to a casino? Probably my bad.
She's in good company. Given that Trump said he was willing to offer $5m for a property that's now only worth $500K, he's obviously not more brilliant than she is, vis-a-vis this property.
Way to completely miss the point.
Rubio is releasing information on CRUZ representing China against Florida entrepreneurs when they stole his ideas.
Watch Fox News for details
She kept her house. We’ve had this argument before. What is the point of going over it? We disagree.
This is only the nine thousandth time this old story has been posted (and debunked) at FR in the last few days. You Cruz-Trolls REALLY need to dig up some original dirt on Trump. Recycling the old dirt over and over and over again is getting REALLY boring!
BTW, it’s important not to forget that only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
Except for he didn't peel any foldin money off the old money roll, did he? :)
“Rubio is releasing information...?”
Who?
Oh please my mother is 87 years old if Trump offered her millions for her home worth 400,000 she's lived there 40 years the moving van would be there within the hour!!!
She would do that all by HER OWN CHOICE.
The thing about property is that the buyer doesn't get to decide the time and price to sell. The owner does.
Because she wanted to stay put...
On July 31, the property, at 127 South Columbia Place, will go up for auction. The reserve price, or the lowest the seller will accept, is $199,000, but brokers insist it will go for more. As recently as eight years ago, Donald Trump was willing to pay at least 10 times that amount so he could expand Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. In the 1980s, Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, also made offers in the seven figures to clear the way for a casino of his own.
Why would they be scared of him? He's one of them. He'll do what they want because they share common interests. That's like Goldman Sachs being afraid of one of their alumni becoming president. This is why the fat cats and establishment pols are circling the wagons around Trump.
What Wall Street is truly afraid of is Ted Cruz who, despite his detractors claiming he got special loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank in 2012, shut the government down in 2013 over Obamacare, against the wishes of the financial sector. On Wall Street, Cruz is so hated, he's a voodoo doll, a veritable pinata.
Rubio yes. My notebook changes words even after typing a sentence. Irritating
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