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This is great to read. Eminent Domain is going to be a ballot  issue in one of the most liberal states in the country, New York. Bill Weld, running for the Republican nomination for governor, has stated that abusive eminent domain regulations are dangerous to the well being of the country.

This will be a bellwether moment  if the people of New York rise up against eminent domain use for enriching politicians and developers. If such a liberal state will take a stand, then the national politicians will realize that they can not take a persons property and remain in power. And this is the lesson that politicians need to hear loud and clear.

Republican candidate for governor Bill Weld on Wednesday strongly opposed governments’ growing power under a U.S. Supreme Court decision to use eminent domain to take private property to spur economic development.

“If that’s true, government can destroy an entire neighborhood of homes if they can be replaced by tenants who will pay higher taxes,” Weld told The Associated Press. “That, to put it mildly, doesn’t strike me as the American way. This isn’t communist China.”

Weld, a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration, was to detail his attack on last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in a speech Wednesday that is closed to the press at the Harvard Club in Manhattan. He said he’s making the issue part of the campaign because the next governor could seize that power.

“I think the issue cuts very deep,” Weld said in an interview before the speech. “It raises the specter of statism.” via  Newsday.com

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