Posted on 03/11/2026 5:26:03 AM PDT by Angelino97
Pennsylvania's Democrat governor is being sued by his neighbors who say he is trespassing and unlawfully occupying a piece of land that they refused to sell to him...
The couple's property shares a common boundary with land owned by Jeremy and Simone Mock...
The Shapiros wanted to build an eight-foot security fence along the boundary after an arsonist attacked the Governor's official mansion in Harrisburg while Shapiro was inside with his family...
The couple offered to buy 2,900 square feet of land from the Mocks ... But the families could not agree on a purchase price, so the Mocks offered to lease the land to the Shapiros, according to the lawsuit.
The Shapiros initially agreed to the lease, the Mocks' lawsuit alleges, but ultimately decided to take 'alternative actions' to obtain the land, which the governor and first lady claimed they owned through 'adverse possession.'
The governor also directed Pennsylvania state police to patrol the land, even though it was owned by the Mocks, the court filing stated.
When the Mocks tried to access their land, state police allegedly told them the area was 'disputed' and ordered them to leave immediately...
The neighbor row, however, has now become more than an issue of security with Shapiro's office alleging it is a political stunt to harm him as he runs for re-election.
The Mocks, who in their lawsuit accused Shapiro of an 'outrageous abuse of power,' are being represented by prominent Republican attorney Walter Zimolong.
Zimolong refers to himself as Pennsylvania's go-to attorney for 'conservative causes and candidates for office,' his website states.
He is a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association and his previous clients include the political campaigns of President Donald Trump and US Sen. Dave McCormick.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Adverse possession is a real thing. The critical question is how long the squatter has been on the land, and whether his presence has been opposed.
I thought walls didn’t work.
The hypocrites!!!
Typical Democrat... and he wants to be POTUS.
It’s always someone else’s fault with these folks. “My house got firebombed, so I took my neighbor’s property to build a fence to protect me and then told the police to keep the neighbors of their property, but it’s not my fault, it’s a political stunt meant to harm me because they hired a conservative lawyer.”
The first course of action of course is to demean the lawyer representing.
The house was firebombed by an anti-Jew pro-Palestinian protester. That’s why he wants a fence as opposed to going after the group that did it.
But it's still wrong for the governor to inject the state police into his own personal civil dispute.
Before this civil dispute arose, the state police were guarding the governor just fine without occupying the disputed land.
Now the police have been stationed not to protect the governor, but to keep the neighbors out of their own land.
And that's for a judge to decide by issuing a restraining order; not for the governor to decide.
This is a clear abuse of power.
Adverse possession used to require several years of proof of such use, not several hundred days.
I would think that the Governors offer to purchase and then lease, is evidence against him that he knew the subject parcel was not his and he didn’t have right to it
Typical Democrap, wanting something for nothing. Though perhaps the adverse possession laws apply here? I don’t get why the Governor did not simply build a fence right on the boundary line with his neighbor? Must be because he wanted the fence to be put in further away from his house. Which also means closer to his neighbors house.
Same as the USSR negotiating stance during the Cold War. -”What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is negotiable.”
Shapiro? Ironically when faced with adversity, the first instinct is to engage in authoritarianism.
Shapiro’s actions captures the Left in a nutshell, imho.
“The Shapiros initially agreed to the lease, the Mocks’ lawsuit alleges, but ultimately decided to take ‘alternative actions’ to obtain the land, which the governor and first lady claimed they owned through ‘adverse possession.’”
Why lease it when you can claim you own it through adverse possession? Shapiro is definitely a Rat.
Most adverse possession laws have a requirement that the party wanting to take the land must notify the owner of the land that they are going to do it. That is after the person wanting to take has met the other requirements such as occupying the land, maintaining the land openly/publicly.
Sounds like a fancy name for "stolen land".
Did the governor also offer blankets infected with smallpox as part of the lease payment?
Oy vey!
I can’t tell which is which: the fat wife or the fat daughter.
When I bought a house back in 1994, the neighbor behind me immediately tried to do that to me by parking his motorcycle in my yard… that didn’t last 30 seconds😡
Guys’s name was Mohammad
“That’s why he wants a fence as opposed to going after the group that did it.”
Why would he want to go after fellow democrats?
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