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TRUMPED: The Donald, The Widow and Eminent Domain [related to new Cruz ad]
Institute for Justice via YouTube ^ | 5/16/2011 | Dana Berliner - IJ

Posted on 01/22/2016 12:44:18 PM PST by Republican Wildcat

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To: Sasparilla

Cruz said the Keystone Pipeline should be approved. He NEVER said emminent domain shuld be used to acquire the right of way for the property to build it. It’s a huge difference.

I noticed that you simply ignored the fact that Trump tried to use crony capitalism to take this woman’s property. I’d like to hear you justify that.


21 posted on 01/22/2016 1:10:27 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: nickcarraway

The case was all about Donald Trump. He was the one who would have benefitted from it and he pressured the city to use its emminent domain power in order to get her property against her will. Are you really so stupid as tobeliee otherwise?


22 posted on 01/22/2016 1:13:43 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: Beagle8U

...iIrastate pipelines are part of our national defense...

When Red China is the buyer of the oil? Seems more like part of their national defense.


23 posted on 01/22/2016 1:14:01 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, the MSM and Democrats will destroy him come election time.

He is literally the fat corrupt guy on the Monopoly board.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 1:14:27 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

How many folks would EVER get 3 times the value of their home in a sale!!! This entire story is pure BS!!! You folks are acting like he kicked this poor old lady into the street!!! If it was a property the government wanted I can guarantee the woman would have been in the street with damn near nothing!!! You want to blame ANYONE for this law BLAME the Supreme Court!!!! Me. Trump was being MORE than fair with this woman and that Mr. Cruz knowing the full details of this telling a 1/2 truth is slimy!!! Mr. Trump has been VERY honest about this entire story and has NOT hidden or lied about this!!! Unlike Mr. Cruz who has lied about his filing with the FCC!!!


25 posted on 01/22/2016 1:14:44 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Sasparilla

Red China is NOW the buyer. Previously, the pipeline was going to middle-America.

Now it will go to the Pacific coast.


26 posted on 01/22/2016 1:15:27 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Kit cat

So it’s OK to kick a widow out of her house if you decide you have thrown enough money at her?

OK. Sounds very authoritarian.


27 posted on 01/22/2016 1:16:36 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Had no idea until I looked it up....how widespread this this is...

Eminent Domain: Being Abused? - Is Seizure Of Private Property Always In Public's Interest?

Dana Berliner and Scott Bullock are attorneys at a libertarian non-profit group called The Institute for Justice, which has filed suit on behalf of the Saleets against the City of Lakewood. They claim that taking private property this way is unconstitutional.

"This is a nationwide epidemic," says Berliner. "We have documented more than 10,000 instances of government taking property from one person to give it to another in just the last five years."

"It is fundamentally wrong, and contrary to the Constitution for the government to take property from one private owner, and hand it over to another private owner, just because the government thinks that person is going to make more productive use of the land," says Bullock.

"Everyone knows that property can be taken for a road. But nobody thinks that property can be taken to give it to their neighbor or the large business down the street for their economic benefit," adds Berliner. "People are shocked when they hear that this is going on around the country."

28 posted on 01/22/2016 1:18:11 PM PST by justlittleoleme (Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.)
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To: Republican Wildcat; All

Outrageous that Donald admits he “Loves Eminent domain”!
Trump: “I fully understand the conservative approach, but I don’t think conservatives fully understand...”
He sure demonstrates a tin ear when it comes to understanding the constitution and any related complexity.

Donald will be authorativative disaster, ruling as an autocrat over we little people.
Guaranteed.
He’s told you flat out told you that, through association, actions and his own words.
He achieves his own interests via the Art of the Deal.
The deal involves Smoozing and BS’ing politicians & bankers, for other people’s money financing and taxpayer funded property tax reduction sweetheart deals.
Whatever it takes!
All to erect his grossly overpriced luxury hotels, office buildings, and golf courses.

Yeah, Donald, member of the elite’s hive, will be such to look after the interests of the middle class /s
Just listen to his own words before he begun his campaign.

RE: “In this campaign he has been asked about eminent domain and his views continue to be consistent - he even took the opportunity to take another swipe at conservatives at the end of this video that if we don’t support it, it’s apparently because we didn’t get it explained to us properly.


29 posted on 01/22/2016 1:18:36 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: SeaHawkFan
Okay, you misunderstood me. I pulled that quote from the interview to show how Trump is okay with the government being a bully and yet doesn't take responsibility, even though it was just for him.

I agree with you 100%

30 posted on 01/22/2016 1:19:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: MeanWestTexan

The Supreme Court says it’s OK!!! It is the LAW!!!!


31 posted on 01/22/2016 1:21:34 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Republican Wildcat

More like Dan Rather accurate. Here’s the answer I posted on the other thread two hours ago.

“TRUS-TED”, I don’t think so. Cruz implies Trump took her house, bulldozed it and put up a parking lot. That never happened. Trump wasn’t the only LV investor who wanted the property and she wouldn’t sell. Penthouse publisher offered her $1 million in the ‘70s some 15 or so years before Trump was ever on the scene. Eventually, Trump bought two nearby properties for millions and built his parking lot. In the late 90s, the courts cleared up the loop holes in the law a that particular time due to there was no limits on what the sell of a city owned “eminent domain” gotten property to a developer/person. However, the courts didn’t stop eminent domain properties being sold to individuals. Trump had moved on and sold the building. Coking continued to live in her house, which was by then in even more serious disrepair, another dozen years until she moved to CA. She put the house on the market but no buyer stepped up to pay the $5 million asking price. Four years later, in 2014, it went on the auction block with a final bid of $583K and immediately saw the bulldozers.

No, I don’t like taking someone’s house so bad on Trump and the others even if it was within the law at the time. But Cruz’s ad smells of horse hockey implying Trump stole her house and built a parking lot on it.


32 posted on 01/22/2016 1:23:14 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeaHawkFan

He NEVER tried to just TAKE, the property stick a sock in it until you get you facts straight!!!!


33 posted on 01/22/2016 1:24:19 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: nickcarraway

Got it.


34 posted on 01/22/2016 1:24:26 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: bgill

True, Trump merely tried to steal the widow’s house.

He did eventually lose.


35 posted on 01/22/2016 1:24:28 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

What next, pushing little old ladies in wheelchairs over cliffs?


36 posted on 01/22/2016 1:25:18 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Kit cat

Trump succeeded in getting the city to use it’s emminent domain power to take the woman’s property so they could sell it to Trump when she wouldn’t sell it to Trump.

There is no other rational conclusion. There was even a lawsuit over the matter and Trump and the city lost. What could be more clear than that?


37 posted on 01/22/2016 1:27:27 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: MeanWestTexan; bgill
Hmmm. Not sure I agree. the widow did have to leave her house and go to a nursing home. He made her life a living hell.

The real reason he didn't end up with the property is he screwed up his business and it failed, so he didn't need the property anymore. I wouldn't say the system worked.

38 posted on 01/22/2016 1:27:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Republican Wildcat
This is what happened. These are facts.

We don't need no steenking facts! ;-)

39 posted on 01/22/2016 1:28:39 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Republican Wildcat

BJ CLUNTON DID THIS FOR HIS LIBRARY!


40 posted on 01/22/2016 1:30:26 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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