Posted on 01/24/2016 12:44:34 PM PST by dynoman
"The ad is very misleading. In fact, it outright lies about a widow's home being bulldozed," Pierson tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. "When you look at the facts, there is a process in place for eminent domain which was followed in this instance. Ms. Coking ended up keeping her property for years, because Mr. Trump didn't purchase it, and it ended up saving him a fortune," Pierson adds. In 2014, 16 years after the court battle ended and several years after Coking moved to California, her grandson sold the house at auction for $530,000, far less than Trump was willing to pay her in the 1990s. In 2014, 16 years after the court battle ended and several years after Coking moved to California, her grandson sold the house at auction for $530,000, far less than Trump was willing to pay her in the 1990s.
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I’m ready to hear.
Eminent domain is for public USE. The term public good is so broad that it could literally encompass anything.
Becks best friend!
Was that meant to reply to me? I don’t know who it was.
Help?
He used it exactly that way. The fact that the courts stopped him is beside the point.
Birds of a feather molt together.
Trump never acquired the lady’s house and he never bulldozed it. If Ted Cruz puts out an ad that says he did its a lie. Plain and simple.
Look The SS Cruz is taking on water faster than the Indianapolis did. He’s done. Judgment matters and Ted Cruz in a fit of pique and desperation retaliated agains’t Sarah Palins endorsement of Trump by teaming up with Glenn the Loon Beck. Not surprisingly Beck always the self aggrandizer ambushed Ted yesterday on stage with a WTF moment and swore him in on a Mormon compass in front of a whole town hall. Ted might as well have strapped on a suicide vest and pushed the button. :-)
I fully support Ted Cruz.
[and swore him in on a Mormon compass in front of a whole town hall]
What in the world? Guess I didn’t hear the details of this.
Compass?
Actually, private family matters are most pertinent for people looking to size up candidates for political office. That's the way he treats his friends and family members when it suits his personal interests. What can we expect from him when conservative values that have only the slightest hold on his loyalties clash with his personal interests?
Yep, didn't like Dewhurst doing that in Texas and I don't like how this ad seems to infer that they bulldozed her house down. Vera's story is really interesting, as is the discussion of eminent domain, they didn't have to muck it up with innuendos.
NJCRDA = NJCasino Reinvestment Development Authority = "Atlantic City insiders" in the ad
"Collude" from Dictionary.com:
verb
Trump didn't personally take her to court. He colluded to take her to court, with Atlantic City insiders. Just like the ad said.
The word shouldn't be above the reading level of a Freeper. But judging from the construction of Trump's speeches it's probably above the reading level of many voters he's targeting. You can't win this. All you can do is be glad it wasn't brought up earlier and hope there won't be enough time, for enough Trump supporters, to understand and hurt him over it.
Oh crikes! Did you watch the first rally at Waterloo? No? Be glad. It was a WTF? moment to the 10th power. Cruz looked like a deer in headlights as Beck pulled out a compass that he says used to belong to George Washington and then made Cruz raise his hand and repeat the oath of office which I think they both got wrong. Not Teddy’s finest hour. :-)
wow
Come on, where is your proof of that? Did you dream it up? Without proof its libel.
I posted the link to the organization. It still exists, it’s still using eminent domain to improve the cities in its catchment area. They’ve done hundreds of projects with many many developers. They have an independent board. Did only Trump collude? This sounds like tinfoil hat time.
The board thought the project was worthwhile. Most likely Trump told them she didn’t want to sell at $2 million. They decided they were out of patience because they wanted the casino built and asked the town to foreclose. They have done that in many other situations. That’s why I linked the article talking about all the other foreclosures.
“Look The SS Cruz is taking on water faster than the Indianapolis did.”
Making light of one of the worst wartime naval tragedies in modern American history in order to get a dig in on little old me.
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Yeah, Trump only *tried* to use the power of the state to steal grandma’s home so he could build a parking lot for his limos. She fought him in court and won. So in the end he was prevented from using the government from having her thrown out on her ear. What a guy.
A functioning options market could accomplish all of that, but can't function as long as the eminent domain power exists. Eminent domain for private benefit is corporate welfare, and always has been.The Great Northern Railway was built without it.
Keystone pipeline, a private enterprise, would require confiscation of thousands of farms and homes. Eminent domain is a prosperity creator.
For some at the expense of others. Increasingly, it is a corrupt and unjust racket.
It is and I’m not sure I like that. It makes you dependent on the city government’s whims and some of those small towns are very whimsical.
I don’t blame a business man for using the laws as written but I would support oversight at the state level or perhaps criterion proposed voted on and set out. A project might be very pretty and might draw in tax $ but on the other side of the issue is someone losing a home...a family farm...access to a stream. Its the slippery slope sometimes for the towns because revenue is down. There appear to be no perfect answers.
I’ll look forward to that then.
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