Eminent Domain.

[Bread and Circus]

I just read that Palin's Pork Project, the Wasilla Hockey Rink/Fitness Center, was built in part on land procured from owners threatened by eminent domain. I have a feeling that wouldn't go over really well with a lot of true conservative/libertarian voters that don't want the "government on our backs". I can't think of anything more intrusive on property owners than the exercise of eminent domain. It's one thing if it were for a necessary hospital, airport or some other municipal structure. However, an entertainment complex is something else altogether.

I know my NRA Hunter buddy who thinks she is "hot" would be pretty sad to hear if she strong-armed some folks out of their land.

[pkz]

1. Didn't Hannity dedicate

a whole series of shows about eminent domain?

Why yes, it is one of his pets

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183196,00.html

[SharonAnn]

6. Voters didn't care about GWB and his use of eminent domain for the baseball stadium.

[Alameda]

2. That is a good find, do you have any links to it?

[Bread and Circus]

3. Wall Street Journal... (read it)... it's no joke.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

After Ms. Palin left office, the city decided to take 80 acres of Mr. Lundgren's property through eminent domain. An Alaska court confirmed the city's right to do so and ordered that an arbitrator determine the appropriate price.

Last year, the arbitrator ordered the city to pay $836,378 for the 80-acre parcel, far more than the $126,000 Wasilla originally thought it would pay for a piece of land 65 acres larger. The arbitrator also determined that the city owed Mr. Lundgren $336,000 in interest. Wasilla's legal bill since the eminent domain action has come to roughly $250,000 so far, according to Mr. Klinkner, the city attorney.

[Alameda]

4. Thanks....I hate eminent domain projects

my grandmother had a nice little piece of land with a humble house on it. She worked as a single mother to pay it off so her children would have a place to grow up. She had a garden, chickens and rabbits on it. Years of composting made the most delicious veggies I've ever eaten. They eminent domain-ed it and she passed away 3 days after leaving it. Her heart was broken having to leave her home.

That was in 1973. I still go by where it was and just sit there remembering how it was.

I wonder what the impact was on Mr. Lundgren was. Sometimes there is no amount of money that will pay for your home.

[FrenchieCat]

5. I'm loving this ISSUE orientated research.