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Trump on Kelo: I happen to agree with it 100 percent
h/t InstapunditCredit Mark Levin with bursting the Trump bubble. Just last week he was the first voice on the right to thoroughly dissect Trumps history of political activity (donations to Hillary, Weiner, Rahm, Schumer and others). He was also the first to ask a number of important questions about Trumps world view, including, What does he think about Kelo? The Club for Growth is out today with the answer directly from Trump himself from 2005 on Fox News. I happen to agree with it 100 percent, not that I would want to use it. [note below, he would actually want to use it] But the fact is, if you have a person living in an area thats not even necessarily a good area, and government, whether its local or whatever, government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and make area thats not good into a good area, and move the person thats living there into a better place now, I know it might not be their choice but move the person to a better place and yet create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good. But the reality is, Trump did try to use the power of eminent domain to seize private property. He did this in Altlantic City, and it wasnt to build an elementy school or even a tremendous economic development. He wanted to knock down an old ladys home so he could build a parking lot for limousines near his casino. Full disclosure: I used to work for the Institute for Justice, which successfully defended Vera Coking against Trumps land grab in Atlantic City. More details about that case can be found here. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-21 |
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