[Sosfbay-discuss] GP takes up Eminent Domain Issue - resources (was Re: MH Times)

[JamBoi]

Hi Wes,

I've observed all across the country the Green Party has taken up
fighting against eminent domain abuse.  Here are some related GP
resources:

Eminent Domain pamphlet:
  http://gp.org/issue/eminent_domain.pdf
Agriculture Policy:
  http://gp.org/issue/agriculture_2005.pdf
  http://gp.org/platform/2004/ecology.html#759843

2005.06.28: Supreme Theft 
  http://gp.org/press/pr_2005_06_28.shtml
2005.07.23: Greens Plan for 2006 and 2008 
  http://gp.org/press/pr_2005_07_23.shtml
2005.10.19: Elaine Brown Fights Disqualification
  http://gp.org/press/pr_2005_10_19.shtml

Drew

--- Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net> wrote:

> I have talked to some of the people in my sub-division (Holiday Lakes
> in 
> Morgan Hill), about 500 homes, about the PLAN initiative.
> There are a number who view increased controls, such as OpenSpace
> 2006 / 
> PLAN initiative as being an increased level of regulation and
> actually, 
> a "takings" from their property value.  This property rights issue is
> 
> increasing in it's focus.  The Feature story 
> <http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=16409> in High 
> Country News this week is dedicated to the issue. They cast is as a 
> libertarian question, but in California, there is a strong presence
> of 
> property rights organizations.  Thie is what got Richard Pombo
> elected 
> the first time. 
> 
> High Country News also has commentary by Rebecca Clarren 
> <http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=15139> on the
> Oregon 
> initiative (passed in Nov. 2004). " Nearly 60 percent of Oregon
> voters 
> across rural and urban areas passed a ballot initiative that requires
> 
> state and local governments to either compensate landowners when 
> environmental or planning laws harm property values, or else to waive
> 
> the regulations."
> 
> I wrote a commentary that ran in today's Morgan Hill Times on 
> environmental regulation and property rights. Here is is.
> 
> __
> rankly, I am getting tired of the political rhetoric that continues
> to 
> define conflicts over environmental regulation as a property rights 
> issue. That is a sham foisted on us by those who think it their 
> God-given right to make the maximum amount of money at our expense
> and 
> the politicians, like Richard Pombo, who find this a convenient
> rallying 
> cry.


JamBoi
Jammy The Sacred Cows Slayer

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