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Did Cruz tweet it or did some minion who didn't get the story straight?

I don't know.

I did some digging on it myself, and found out he offered her money for the property three times and she refused to sell. If you are old and settled in, a house has memories. Money might not be as important to you as those, familiarity with your surroundings, even the view out the window. Those intangibles can be more valuable than money if you have enough money to get by. You can only spend so much in a lifetime anyway, so money loses value to you.

What I do know is that after attempts to purchase the property failed, Mr Trump tried to have her house taken by eminent domain.

Whether he was successful or not is moot to me. Trying to do so, making her have to defend her property rights in court, is where I have the problem.

I don't agree with Kelo, I find it an abuse of what should be a limited power which should be reserved for things which are essential to the well being of a community or national security, and then used sparingly. To say that the community will benefit by getting more tax money is a stretch, and an abuse of a power that taken in that regard could be used to take homes from people to expand any business district or build multi-family dwellings in place of single family homes because of the increase in tax base.

I could go on with my personal beliefs about property rights, but we are seeing a similar issue in Oregon over ranch land, and have seen a lot of that in the West over the years. I know others in the East who are effectively being denied the use of their property for what amount to "scenic reasons", not to put in anything ugly, but to harvest timber that was planted by ancestors 180 years ago (at its prime harvest age or a little beyond). That timber is worth millions of dollars, but will rot on the stump before the governmental agencies allow it to be cut yet the property owners still have to pay taxes on the land and the blocking of their use of that land is not seen as a 'taking'.

It was Ted’s tweet - click through and see for yourself.

And it’s a lie. It doesn’t matter how many red herrings are thrown out, or how many times the goal posts are moved. It is a lie. No amount of ad hominems or strawman logical fallacies will change the fact the statement is a lie. And it’s in Ted’s tweet, in the opening post of the thread about the ad here on FR, AND on the ad site linked from the thread.

Read and see the unbelievable contortions some go though to avoid admitting the statement is a lie;
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3387649/posts?page=13#13