[editor-surveyor]

"Agreed. They seem to have adopted the Agenda21, central planning, for-the-common-good theory of governance."

You only need one word: Socialism.

[HKMk23]

I believe the CAGOP hierarchy thinks corporate land theft is just fine and dandy.

Yup.

City of Concord.

COSTCO

Seizure of private land for development by a private entity on the paper-thin basis that there was a valid public interest in turning that property into a privately held economic engine that would provide jobs and stimulate commerce.

HELLO?! Isn't it mostly the local community that's spending the money at that new retail establishment?? So, isn't all that money actually going FROM the local community TO COSTCO Corporate?? All that stays "local" are the cumulative wages of local COSTCO employees, assorted City business fees, County property taxes, and whatever the County finally gets out of the sales tax revenues, and that's a WHOLE lot LESS than the gross sales dollars this community's pouring into the COSTCO tills.

And for that meager pittance the real estate holdings of a few were savaged by their local municipal government.

Socialists all, and damnable to a man.

[broomhilda]

Tom McClintock was the last best hope for fiscal responsibility in the state of California. Because of the fear that he was too Conservative (again the liberal news media’s trumpeting) we got a celebrity RINO instead. We now have the once great state of California in a downward spiral towards bankruptcy.