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| 2006-02-08 |
| (3rd item) The nation's Republican mayors, in a closed-door White House meeting last week, nearly unanimously supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo decision permitting local governments to force property owners to sell or give way to private developers. The GOP mayors, in Washington for the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting, heard a report on the Kelo decision by Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Michael A. Guido. Chairman of the conference's advisory board, Guido opposed undermining the Supreme Court's ruling. Anaheim, Calif., Mayor Curt Pringle, a former speaker of the California Assembly, objected with arguments that reflected widespread Republican abhorrence of Kelo. Guido insisted the mayors support local government's authority, and not a single additional mayor rose in support of Pringle. This could become a major local political campaign issue. Kelo is overwhelmingly opposed by the public even more vigorously than NIMBY projects. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 There is no true small government political party in America anymore. |
| Posted by: VAMark 2006-02-08 15:13 |
| #2 Stupid is as Stupid does. |
| Posted by: Forrest Gump 2006-02-08 15:10 |
| #1 The city needs money. And what the city needs, the city takes. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-02-08 14:19 |