Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, if voted in, will use eminent domain

[liveoaktx]

if necessary. And heck, if the people living there don't think what Jerry offers is just compensation, you KNOW they'll try to invoke ED.

I was listening to NPR yesterday, 2 opposing viewpoints about the stadium, and, although I don't live there, was interested to hear about how far Arlington seems to be giving away the store to Jerry Jones in order to get the stadium there.

The antagonist mentioned New London and the Supreme Court. Found the case, from San Antonio - http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13135845&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6

"When the Supreme Court announced in September that it would hear Kelo v. City of New London, it sent ripples through state and local governments everywhere. At issue in the Connecticut case is whether the city can exercise its right of eminent domain - the constitutionally based power to take private land for "public use" in exchange for "just compensation" - not for historical purposes such as a highway or flood control, but to bring in more tax revenue through private development. "

(Side point about developers promising to do certain things when they get what they want. Seems to me that the owners and developers of American Airlines Center didn't fulfill their promise to develop AROUND the center-the last time I drove down I-35 it still looked like a dump around there.)

[kcwayne]

1. So why don't they tear down the stadium in Irving and play

in the Cotton Bowl (where they used to play) until they get the new one rebuilt? Or is that even a proposition?

[derby378]

3. The proposal was to tear down the Cotton Bowl

and replace it with a new stadium. Dallas preservationists and sports fans freaked when they heard the plan. It's toast.

[liveoaktx]

2. One more deja vu about Bush doing the same thing with the Ballpark

http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org/2004/articles3/bush_and_eminent_domain.htm
If you search the LexisNexis database for the past two years, you will ... not find is a single reference to what Bush did in Arlington, Texas, in the early 1990s, when he was the part-owner of and principal glad-hander for the Texas Rangers baseball team.

Bush ... had an entire 13-acre neighborhood moved -- well, flattened -- so that he could build a new ballpark for the Rangers.

He did this by persuading the Texas legislature to create an independent authority to take the land by eminent domain and use it for a stadium -- a remarkable piece of sports socialism that the former owners of the Red Sox unsuccessfully tried to replicate a decade later. (Note: that plan, apparently dead and gone, would have displaced the offices of the Boston Phoenix, which opposed it strenuously.)

[mrbill]

4. eminent domain is a given for jerry's shiney new $650 mil stadium.....

The civic fathers of Arlington will bend over and do anything Jerry Jones tells them to do and won't even ask for a "reach-around".

Eminent domain procedures were used for the baseball field formerly known as the Ball Park at Arlington, now Ameriquest Field. Back during the origional construction land was taken for future commercial development which never happened. Much like the "development" around American Airlines Arena.

Jerry has big plans on the drawing board for his Dallas Cowboy World. Watch for lots of property to be condemned and the city of Arlington will end up paying the legal bills.

Hope that the voters of Arlington will see past this bullshit and defeat this money-grubbing proposal. Don't have much hope, most Cowboy fans are like fundies in their devotion to the team. Also Jones has spent $2 million to promote his agenda while the opposition has spent $20,000.

The deal with the Cotton Bowl fell throught when someone discovered a glitch in Texas law. The Cotton Bowl is in Fair Park, which is a Dallas city park. The law sez that you can't use hotel/rent car taxes for private development in a city park. Jerry is in a big hurry to get his new toy and didn't want to wait for the next session of the Texas legislature to make a change for him.

Did i mention that Jerry Jones is a scumbag?