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February 06, 2006

Make Sure Your's Is

40 States Re-Examining Eminent Domain

Anna DeFaria stands in front of her small bungalow, next to a neighbor's sold and boarded-up home, in Long Branch, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. If DeFaria doesn't willingly sell the home that she and her husband bought in 1960, officials are going use eminent domain to take it from the 80-year-old retired pre-school teacher. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)


Flamingo bashing bastards!
...New Jersey state Sen. Diane Allen, with bipartisan support, is pushing for a two-year ban on all eminent domain actions and for a bipartisan study group to re-examine its use in New Jersey.

"Right now government, I think, is using eminent domain to take people's private properties and hand it over to another owner," said Allen, a Republican. "It's really putting a hole in the American dream. Ownership of private property plays such a large role in that dream."


I'd have to vote for her.

Posted by tree hugging sister at February 6, 2006 02:47 PM

Comments

Every political division/jurisdiction in the United States should be allowed to execute one elected official and at least five unelected bureaucrats.

Pour l'encouragement de les otres (pardon my french)

Posted by: Ken Summers at February 6, 2006 03:30 PM

Yearly, I mean.

Posted by: Ken Summers at February 6, 2006 03:30 PM

You might have to wait longer, Ken. Once everybody figures out what's up, no one's gonna run for office.

(And you forgot to add your "Death to Israel!".)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at February 6, 2006 03:38 PM

So, is there a downside?

Posted by: Ken Summers at February 6, 2006 06:29 PM