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[Charlestown, Ind., Mayor Bob Hall announced his plans earlier this year to demolish more than 350 homes in the city’s Pleasant Ridge neighborhood.]

Bet the man is a democrat and will be richer if he steals the homes of these poor people. Wonder how many are democrats and if they voted for the democrat party?

1 posted on 10/23/2014 5:53:39 PM PDT by kindred
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I’m not suggesting anything here but I would find it hard to contain my anger if someone tried to take my home and not offer me enough to buy another - $6,000 - what a pittance. Mayor should be looking for a new residence in Pleasant Ridge cemetery!


2 posted on 10/23/2014 6:00:44 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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I wonder about the ethnicity of folks in this neighborhood. The “Urban Renewal” programs of the last century were designed to destroy working class Catholic neighborhoods.


3 posted on 10/23/2014 6:02:56 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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Seems like Mr Fascist Soros Mayor is trying to make some money of his own and absolutely thinking about the people of his town who live in nice homes that would be built today by Habitat for Humanity for around 75K average. Something is truly amok in Mayberry. this is the link for zillow at the level to see the values. Hit minus to back out and view the town. not much for sale here Mr Fascist Stalin Mayor.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/fsbo/Charlestown-IN/house,mobile_type/17397_rid/priced_sort/38.465562,-85.665344,38.463538,-85.668251_rect/17_zm/0_mmm/


4 posted on 10/23/2014 6:05:22 PM PDT by huldah1776
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Indiana residents are fighting to save their homes as their local government weighs a sweeping plan to demolish them to make way for new development

A New Development? Shades of Kelso all over again. None of us own our property any more.

5 posted on 10/23/2014 6:07:18 PM PDT by sr4402
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Sorry to say that the mayor is a republican.


7 posted on 10/23/2014 6:11:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
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The comments following the article state the Mayor is a republican.

Commies come in all shapes and sizes.


10 posted on 10/23/2014 6:17:28 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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With $6K they can pay their Obamacare deductible...


15 posted on 10/23/2014 6:22:58 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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Shades of "Up".

16 posted on 10/23/2014 6:26:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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Remember the Kelo case, in which city officials used eminent domain to transfer land from private homeowners to a private entity that promised to redevelop the land in a way that would benefit the community economically? This is the property in question today:


17 posted on 10/23/2014 6:28:11 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Insanity.

Even if eminent domain applies, how can they possibly justify paying $6000 for houses that are being lived in? Doesn’t the law require just recompense?


18 posted on 10/23/2014 6:28:18 PM PDT by Amity
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Tar, feathers, fencerail, rope, politician ...

Some assembly required.


19 posted on 10/23/2014 6:31:44 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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Hate to say it but this link says he is a Republican, last paragraph on the bottom. Shame on him


20 posted on 10/23/2014 6:32:57 PM PDT by polishprince
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Hate to say it but the link below says that the Mayor is a Republican, last paragraph on the bottom.

http://www.gbpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2496:child-abuse-awareness&catid=36:leader&Itemid=46


21 posted on 10/23/2014 6:32:57 PM PDT by polishprince
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Nobody in the US owns real property. You only rent it from the government via property taxes. Stop paying your taxes, and you lose your property. If the powers to be decide that they can make more money off of your property via redevelopment, your property will be confiscated, and sold to the highest bidder, with the full force of the government, and there is nothing you can do about it, short of armed rebellion.


24 posted on 10/23/2014 6:35:06 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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“Hall first submitted a 17,000-page application for money from Indiana’s Blight Elimination Program in June of this year”

Only in government could an application have 17K pages. LOL


25 posted on 10/23/2014 6:35:41 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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Zillow shows the cheapest LOT in Charlestown, IN for sale at $10K. So $6K for a house seems ridiculous.


30 posted on 10/23/2014 6:39:37 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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Difficult to tell by the pictures, but the houses seem to be in overall fair condition, with some in seemingly excellent condition. Blight is in the eye of the beholder, and blight is seen best by those that profit from eliminating it with somebody else’s money.

A developer wants the properties right? The community is responsible for the sewerage, the water supply, utilities, etc. right?

They always never make it known the taxpayer in the community is responsible for the utilities. The people get displaced without appropriate compensation, the taxpayer gets ripped off, and the developer rides off into the sunset with cash in pocket having sold to a holding company. The mayor retires to his gated community, and is forgotten, and the taxpayer continues to pay for all the maintenance of the utilities forever, and ever.


33 posted on 10/23/2014 6:40:49 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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Looks like the potential eminent domain abuse is driving down property values in the neighborhood (look at the “Zestimate” vs. the asking price): http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/335-Clark-Rd-Charlestown-IN-47111/53239759_zpid/


34 posted on 10/23/2014 6:49:30 PM PDT by Drago
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All your houses are belong to us.


36 posted on 10/23/2014 7:11:24 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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Deuteronomy 27:17

17 ‘Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.’

And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’


40 posted on 10/23/2014 7:46:33 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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