eminent domain

October 29, 2007 - 12:08am

Question 3: The “Open Space” Scam

In 1998, New Jersey committed a staggering $3 billion to preserving so-called open space by floating more debt and mortgaging our children’s future. While the world was moving away from socialism with aggressive land reforms to allow property rights and markets to function in the area of land-use, New Jersey chose to go in the other direction, consolidating land control in the hands of state bureaucrats. The program has been, by any measure, a failure, falling well-short of its goals, although achieving the tragic “success” of moving over 300,000 acres of land from private citizens to the state.

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November 10, 2007 - 6:24pm

Listen to the Voters

Voters sent a loud, clear, and stunning message to the complacent political class in Trenton this week—enough business as usual, taxing, borrowing, and spending recklessly. They also dispelled the notion that New Jersey conservatism is dead and progressivism inexorably on the march. Voters have seen Trenton’s idea of progress, and they’re fed up with it. When ballot questions go down for the first time in 17 years, it should serve as a wake up call—but will it? Will the legislature follow the will of the voters or come up with even more clever ways to thwart it?

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COLLETTI SUPPORTS I&R MEASURE

Release Date: Sep 24 2007

"This tells us two things about Mr. Gordon; the first is that he is opposed to letting voters be part of the legislative process and secondly, that he opposes real eminent domain reform,

August 27, 2007 - 6:25pm

The Left Marches On: Part 5 - Big Brother

Government satellites hover far overhead in silence, monitoring activities of citizens below, secretly surveying private property of unsuspecting residents.  Nameless, faceless government bureaucrats pour over maps, calculating and deliberating the fate of personal property, the value of which will rise and fall on their collectivist schemes, determining the fortunes of thousands of hard working Americans.  As government regulators decimate property values, all for the “Common Good,” central planners wield the power of Eminent Domain to advance their agenda.  The government’s resou

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N. ARLINGTON MAYOR COUNCILPRAISE ADVOCATE CHEN FOR HIS

Release Date: Jun 1 2007

I have seen the abuse of eminent domain up close and personal and I don’t like it and I will not be party to taking people’s homes or businesses to enhance a private redevelopment,” said Massa. 

Burzichelli: New Eminent Domain Report A 'Powerful Reminder' of Need for Reform

Release Date: May 29 2007

Assembly Democrats News Release

BURZICHELLI: NEW EMINENT DOMAIN REPORT
A 'POWERFUL REMINDER' OF NEED FOR REFORMS

(PAULSBORO) - Assemblyman John Burzichelli said a report released today by state Public Advocate Ronald Chen detailing the shortcomings of the state's current eminent domain laws further documents the need for the Legislature to continue pursuing an overhaul of the practice in New Jersey.

O’TOOLE SAYS STATE MUST ADDRESS EMINENT DOMAIN

Release Date: May 23 2007

"It is without a doubt one of the biggest failings of the state legislature not to address eminent domain issues in New Jersey

May 11, 2007 - 4:27pm

Help save Manny Amaral's business from gov't seizure

Dramatic Online Video to Stop Eminent Domain Abuse Against NJ Family Business

Citizens Urged to Make Urgent Call to Corzine to Stop Abuse

HARRISON, NJ - The New Jersey chapter of the national free-market group Americans for Prosperity today released a dramatic online video chronicling a wrongful eminent domain case that could lead to the eviction on Tuesday of Manny Amaral and his family from their successful auto dealership - just so the city government can transfer their property to private condo developers.

Kenny:Shifting the Burden of Proof in Eminent Domain Would be 'Litigation Nightmare'

Release Date: May 7 2007

KENNY: SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF IN EMINENT DOMAIN WOULD BE ‘LITIGATION NIGHTMARE’ 

          

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