Posted on 02/12/2016 9:01:15 AM PST by jimbo123
New Anti-Trump TV Ad from Right to Rise
Iceberg
Right to Rise USA
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I do agree that it was against her will, or the price wasn't right in her eyes. But I think it is a big stretch to call Trump's attempt, an attempt at a dishonest transaction - which is what you are calling it.
It has nothing to do whether or not Vera Coking was greedy. It was her property. It was her right to sell it or not.
In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. She declined the offer, and Guccione started construction of the hotel-casino in 1978 around the Coking house, but ran out of money in 1980 and construction stopped. The steel framework structure was finally torn down in 1993.[2]
In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, intending to build a parking lot designed for limousines.[3] Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for about 35 years, refused to sell. When Coking refused to sell to Trump, the city of Atlantic City condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. Her designated compensation was to be $251,000,[4] about one quarter of what Guccione had offered her 10 years earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Coking
Unions did a GREAT jib of protecting these workers jobs.....NOT!!!!!!
Don’t cherry pick your own link! Read the whole thing.
Trump never took ownership of the property. He was out of Atlantic city long before it sold at auction for 530K. Trump’s partially credited Vera for him getting out of Atlantic City before it crashed.
It is called free speech. I am sorry you have a problem with that.
That is not what the process of emminent domain was intended for under the 5th amendment.
Trump never purchased it because a) She didn’t want to sell it for what the Mouth was offering and
B)the Court told A.C. and Trump the attempted E.D. take over of her Property was ILLEGAL and stopped them dead in their tracks in the attempt!
So to say that because Trump never took ownership of the property absolves him of the Illegal actions his A.C. Political goons attempted on his behalf is laughable at best.
If *your* property was confiscated by your local government, and turned over to a private developer, rather than used for the constitutional public good, then you’d find out just how laughable the stupidity is.
Kelo was a laugh riot!
Holy Moly pic.twitter.com/05J4by0lyo@marklevinshow— ** TRUMP ** (@HouseCracka) February 12, 2016
I wouldn't believe Hillary because she's a liar. Donald Trump's word is gold. His reputation is built on it.
Isn’t that Yeb’s super pac?
If you are going to quote me, us the entire quote, asshole. It wasn’t that long.
Here is the part left out of the commercial...
“By the end of 1991, Trump’s three casinos employed more than 12,700 people, nearly one-third of the entire Atlantic City casino workforce.
And Trump, gushed Theresa Volpe, 57, who served drinks at Trump Plaza for 26 years, including to the man himself, “was a very good boss.”
“Employee picnics, employee parties. I mean, he took care of us.”
“He was very receptive to our union and our benefits and pension plan,” said Volpe, who’s been cobbling together a living as a bartender and supermarket cashier since Trump Plaza closed in September.
Bob McDevitt, longtime president of Local 54 of Unite Here, which represents casino workers, declined to comment for this story. But in the past, the labor leader, who spent years as a Taj bartender, characterized Trump as a union-friendly, reliably cooperative partner in negotiations over labor contracts.
In 2004, when 10,000 casino workers went on strike at seven Atlantic City casinos for more than a month, the Trump casinos weren’t among them.
“He didn’t nickel or dime us,” Volpe said.
He didn’t scrimp on entertainment, either.
“Holyfield, Mike Tyson... Sugar Ray Leonard ... Donna Summer, Englebert (Humperdinck), Paul Anka, Hall and Oates ...” Volpe ticked off.
Volpe’s larger-than-life boss bankrolled some of Atlantic City’s most iconic events.
The 91-second 1988 heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks — made possible when Trump paid an $11 million fee to bring the bout to Convention Hall, shattering the boxing-industry record — became the highest-grossing boxing match ever. The event remains a byword for Atlantic City’s golden years. And Trump remains the greatest impresario Atlantic City has ever seen, and likely ever will.
“There are people in Atlantic City who appreciated that Trump bet on Atlantic City,†said Simon, the historian. “That investment mattered to the city.”
Donald Trump, what a stinker that guy is./s
Jeb Bush needs to go play in some traffic somewhere.
That “private business” was responsible for employing one third of all the people in Atlantic City.
And not a Cruz ad??? Not a Rubio ad??? Not a Kasich ad??? Now THERE's a difference without a distinction...
That is irrelevant.
It was not private property that was being attempted to be taken for public use. It was private property being attempted to be taken for coorporate use.
The Fifth Amendment - U.S. Constitution
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
And all this time I thought it was the economy, the illegals, the pending refugees, the out of control spending...so glad I have the Cruz fans to set me straight.
ED - what else does Cruz have?!
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