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|11.11.05 @ 10:53AM|#
Democrat, Republican, at the local level it doesn't mean much here in FLorida except which fundraising wagon the ambitious ones want to hitch onto when they make a run for a higher office a few years down the road. As long as both parties' pools of would-be officeholders are tight with developers, you're going to be stuck with city and county governments that adore the Kelo decision.
Here in the Miami-Fort-Lauderdale-West-Palm conurbation, the only difference between the Dems and the Repubs on this issue is which developers they're allied with.
It will take a voter uprising to stop this stuff, but it will also have to involve getting eminent domain minimalists and opponents on the ballot and in the public eye in the first place. That may take some work given how much local-campaign money comes from selfsame developers and the allied trades and the number of high-profile media outlets with financial interests in ED abuse.
|11.11.05 @ 4:33PM|#
I promise to stop this eminent domain nonsense in our great state of California. But the truth is, I can't get a damn thing done because of these girly Dems.
|11.11.05 @ 8:26PM|#
"eminent domain abuse" is such a biased term for redevelopment takings. I suggest something more neutral. Like, say, "Jesus approved takings" or "stronger-neighborhood acquisitions."
Keep stealing those bases, fellas.
fyodor|11.12.05 @ 1:44AM|#
Keep stealing those bases, fellas.
Well why shouldn't they -- if you can't throw 'em out!! :-)