Nobody bulldozed her house.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13215941806857520148&q=Casino+Reinvestment+Development+Authority+v.+Coking&hl=en&as_sdt=6,33
We went over this yesterday. She should have read “Art of the Deal” and taken the $1.8 mil for that rat trap. She was unduly influenced by her relatives. She lost. End of story.
Keystone Pipeline.
For it?
People get paid well above market price for roadways, pipelines, and developments that produce big tax revenue.
Often holdouts just want more $$$.
Instead of the million plus he offered, she may have gotten 600,000 - if that.
Brilliant! BRILLIANT!!!
The Weekly Standard did an article on it yesterday (I was watching the Trump documentaries all afternoon)...
‘”His ad is wrong because I never knocked down that house. I wanted to get that house to build a building that would have employed tremendous numbers of people. But when the woman didn’t want to sell, ultimately I said forget about it,” Trump said.”’
[HE LOST HIS CASE IN COURT]
Donald Trump fights for what he wants.
He went to court against a New Jersey widow to take her house for his Casino, an Arab themed beautiful design, like an Arabian themed motel of the 60’s. It was brilliant.
He goes to court for real things, important things. Business and jobs.
The housewife beat him, but that was just a fluke.
Ted Cruz goes to court for dumb things.
He argues boring cases at the Supremem Court. And he wins.
But it’s dull, boring.
No one cares, they aren’t important and have no significance.
Trumps law suits are about something.
I have to say that while I have consumate hatred for our worthless governor Jerry The Fairy Brown, he has done one thing that I do commend him for, and that is doing away with all our municipal “Redevelopment Agencies.” These crooks have been using “blight laws” where blight doesn’t exist to take property, hand it over to private entities, and at the same time, take the RE off the property tax rolls for an extended period of time. That last “feature” just serves to boost the taxes of the rest of us suckers while the fat cats get unfair deals on the properties involved along with cheap government financing for their “projects.” The government needs to be completely out of the “redevelopment business.”
1994?
Supposedly The Donald talked back to his parents once back around 1952 when he was a kid and it has been reported that sometime around 1958 he hung out with some other kid who smoked cigarettes he snuck from his mother’s purse.
I thought it was her 29-room boarding house.
Nothing says "home" like a snug little place for you and 20-odd strangers...
Having been to Atlantic City several times, I’m confident in saying the term Eminent Domain was invented for the blocks behind the casinos. It was the very definition of urban blight.
Trump has the same views on this topic as Chris Christie. Maybe they’ve been taking lessons on good governance from the Communist Party of China.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/politics/chris-christie-eminent-domain-new-jersey/
The success of the project reflects on Gov. Chris Christie, who supported a set of tax incentives to encourage the Revel’s investors not to give up on construction in 2011.
Christie has not spoken about Birnbaum’s fight with the state, but when asked whether he believed eminent domain could be justified to take property from one private owner and give it to another private owner, he suggested the practice was justified depending on the facts of the case.
“It depends upon the circumstances. That is what eminent domain is all about, that’s why we have the ability for people to go to court and work through that,” Christie said during a recent visit to New Hampshire, where he is building support for a possible future presidential campaign. “I can’t give a generalized answer on that. A generalized answer is just sophomoric and I won’t give one.”
I’ve always wanted to live by myself next to a Casino parking lot...
This is only the nine thousandth time this old story has been posted (and debunked) at FR in the last few days. You Cruz-Trolls REALLY need to dig up some original dirt on Trump. Recycling the old dirt over and over and over again is getting REALLY boring!
BTW, it’s important not to forget that only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
On July 31, the property, at 127 South Columbia Place, will go up for auction. The reserve price, or the lowest the seller will accept, is $199,000, but brokers insist it will go for more. As recently as eight years ago, Donald Trump was willing to pay at least 10 times that amount so he could expand Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. In the 1980s, Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, also made offers in the seven figures to clear the way for a casino of his own.
Even her fellow holdouts said they thought she had made a mistake. Both eventually agreed to sell, the owners of Sabatini’s restaurant receiving $2.1 million and $1.6 million going to the pawnshop. Their buildings were demolished, now part of a huge lawn flanking a taxi stand for the casino.
“I think she got greedy and made a mistake, a big mistake,” Vincent Sabatini, a former owner of the restaurant, said of Ms. Coking. “Trump was tough, but it was just business.”
This report came out right after the property was sold at auction.
http://6abc.com/news/home-of-ac-resident-who-challenged-trump-sold/184080/
The video that accompanies the report features a brief interview with a resident of the area who claims that Vera Coking was holding out for $4 million, more than twice what Trump was willing to pay for a property that was worth $180K.
If that’s true, and I have no way of knowing one way or the other, that might just indicate that she was motivated by greed rather than love of her decrepit building.
And years later, when it was finally put up for sale, she was trying to get $5 million.
I’m not saying this to excuse Trump, because he was clearly wrong in this case.
I’m just suggesting that Ms. Coking might not have been quite the innocent victim that she has been portrayed as.
Am I the only one getting sick of these repetitive Threads?
No offense, but have you been off this Site for the past week?
For anyone that’s interested, look up my History and the Comments I made regarding this idiotic TDS inspired crap over the past few days. I’m sick of wasting Keystrokes.
WTH is wrong with you people? Does anyone think going on and on about this same issue is changing minds? We live in a Bubble here, and the air is getting pretty stale.
TAGLINE. LIVE IT, LOVE IT...
Eminent domain for any reason besides manifest public necessity for a public works project is indefensible from a conservative POV. Water treatment plant needs to be build? Ok. New Expressway? Ok. Privatively owned casino or shopping mall? NO. That’s the government transferring property at gun point to someone who probably greased a lot of palms to make it happen. Revolting.
It’s disgusting to see people try to defend it. You can try to dismiss it as not all that important in the grand scheme and not enough for you to not support Trump, that’s fine. But it’s wrong, period.
Nobody bulldozed her house.