Posted on 02/14/2016 11:50:50 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
February 07, 2016
Following attacks from primary rival Jeb Bush about his past use of eminent domain, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Sunday accused the Bush family of using the practice to build a baseball stadium in Texas.
"Eminent domain is a very important thing," Trump said on ABC's "This Week." "Jeb Bush doesn't understand what it means, and if you look into the Bush family – I found this five minutes ago – they used eminent domain for the stadium in Texas, where they own, I guess, a piece of the Texas Rangers."
When host George Stephanopoulos said that was Jeb's brother, former President George W. Bush, Trump said his point still stands.
"That doesn't matter," he said. "It was the Bush family. They used private eminent domain. He didn't tell anybody this. So, I mean, he should have told people."
"Maybe – he probably doesn't know because I don't think he even knows what eminent domain is," he added. "But I just found that out five minutes ago."
The billionaire businessman also refused to recant his support for governmental seizures of private property.
"Eminent domain is important," he said. "You wouldn't have highways, you wouldn't have roadways, you wouldn't have bridges, you wouldn't have hospitals. You wouldn't have anything without it."
He also said the crowd at Saturday night's GOP primary debate was firmly in his corner on the issue.
"The crowd was on my side, except that they were all friends of mine that were donors and special interests and lobbyists, some of whom worked for me in the past," he said.
It says a lot that Trump is trying to prove he’s more conservative than a today that conservatives already know is too liberal. And it says even more that he’s failing. But why keep going after a candidate that’s about a half a percent in the world? At this point whatever he says he’s just helping bush by keeping him in the mix giving him more attention than a half percent Canada it would get.
Obama’s goona use it to build his library in Chicago too..
No. The City of Arlington TX did that.
Cruz said he would use it to build the wall.
Like Trump has said many times, if Jeb! would just not attack him, he’d leave Jeb! alone because he knows Jeb! is not a factor. But Jeb! is too dumb to realize what everyone else knows, that his chances of becoming POTUS are zero.
Remember, eminent domain cases for these private endeavors only comes into play when people refuse an offer of payment.
Seems to me that Donald has identified another good reason to not vote for Jeb, but I had long ago decided not to vote for Jeb.
Unfortunately for Donald, he also gives me another reason for preferring Cruz to him.
And it was the corresponding body in Atlantic City that went after the Coking boarding house.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Eminent domain should be used very judiciously, for important infrastructure that benefits most everybody. Power lines, roads, sewers, gas lines. Things like that.
Not sports arenas, and not parking lots for casinos.
Um Yer still peckerhead on this matter Trump
I would wager that the ballpark was put on a ballot vote
Um Yer still peckerhead on this matter Trump
I would wager that the ballpark was put on a ballot vote
And the people of Arlington were fools IMHO
Obama and others bought property in Chicago to use for the Olympics they didn’t get. Thinking they would make a fortune
Jimmy Jones’ fault! Some have yet to see better roads and streets that was suppose to happen.
Don’t mess with the Trumpster kiddies. He has a pretty good dugout and bench!
A this point everyone says they are conservative. Romney did it , false advertising.
Cruz has gotten nothing done in congress. Now he wants a promotion. Just like Obama
Trump is his own boss and he runs an international company.
Just look at his accomplishments.
Rubio nailed Cruz at the debate. Carson and Trump agree with Rubio. Cruz is a liar and a cheat.
They puts Jerry’s house on a ballot vote and the idiots in Arlington voted to pay for it and be charged $75 to just to park.
No idea whose land was stolen so Jerry could get rich, and the people could be fleeced, while watching the cowboys Lose
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