More Eminent Domain
To cap on Harry’s blog regarding the encouraging news on eminent domain, the Governor’s announcement is very good news because, should the legislation he has outlined pass, the protections for property owners will be far better than they would have been under the bill he vetoed last year. If you are curious, the final recommendations [...]
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Eminent Domain in New Mexico — Looks Like Good News
According the the Albuquerque Journal this morning Governor Richardson is proposing to “ensure that government cannot take private property for economic development.”
Richardson’s proposal, which incorporates recommendations from a governor-appointed task force, would repeal the state’s Urban Renewal and Community Development laws.
It also would remove eminent domain power from the Metropolitan Redevelopment Act, a comprehensive economic [...]
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Bad News and a Little Good News
Maine, a state that is as bad as New Mexico in many ways, saw its constitutional amendment to limit taxing and spending go down to defeat.
But a little good news too: the wasteful “quality of life tax” went down to defeat in ABQ.
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Gangster Politicians
Check this video on eminent domain out. The sad thing is that gangsters’ views of our property rights are little different from those of our political leaders. Worse still for New Mexicans, while this video was made by a Nevada group supporting an initiative that will be on the ballot to protect property owners this [...]
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Governor Richardson’s Eminent Domain Task Force to Hold Public Meeting, Take Comments
It is important for opponents of eminent domain to attend the meeting this Thursday of the Governor’s Eminent Domain Task Force. This will be the only opportunity that the public will get to express their opposition to eminent domain abuse.
Pertinent information is as follows: The meeting will be held at 4:00 PM on September 28th [...]
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Eminent Domain Curbed in Missouri
Governor Matt Blunt (R) in Missouri has signed legislation restricting use of eminent domain. His bill is particularly good in that it bars the taking of private property solely to increase taxes or create jobs; It explicitly rejects the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. New London; and it increases the compensation for seized [...]
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RGF in the news
In case you missed it, the Rio Grande Foundation got some nice ink in the Albuquerque Journal relating to our rally marking the one-year anniversary of the Kelo decision.
Whether Governor Richardson’s commission succeeds in finding a solution that secures our individual property rights or whether John Dendahl pulls an upset and pushes legislation through the [...]
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Adding Insult to Injury
President Bush celebrated the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision with an Executive Order, basically restating the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. By the President’s order, private property is now protected by:
limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, [...]
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Property Rights in 21st-Century America
Speaking of the failure of New Mexico to protect the cornerstone of liberty, there is a new book out. In Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st-Century America, a new book published today by the Cato Institute, Timothy Sandefur, a staff attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, examines the state of property rights after Kelo.
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Su Casa Es Mi Casa
Today marks the 1st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. It was such a bad interpretation of the constitution that it makes you wonder what they were smoking.
Property rights are the cornerstone of the liberty that has made us so prosperous. Paul is leading an event today that calls attention to New Mexico’s subsequent [...]
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