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What’s civil asset forfeiture? According to supporters of the ban, people do not have to be convicted or even charged to lose their property when suspected of a civil offense
What state has experience with restricting civil asset forefeiture? New Mexico
What can we learn from New Mexico?
58% of people in the West, home to people like the Bundy Family, and independent minds, oppose giving control over land to States.
The details:
It’s the 6th year of the Conservation in the West poll, sponsored by Colorado College
60% oppose selling “significant holdings” of public lands, such as national forests, to reduce the budget deficit.
Only Utahians supported giving states control. 47% to 41% support state control over federal land.
In Nevada, the epicenter…
Institute for Justice, the group that represented Kelo, is helping North Carolina landowners organize.
What concerns North Caolina Landowners? A small town was looking to redevelop.
Previously on informedintel: Town of 10,000 Tries Redevelopment. Includes Eminent Domain. Lawsuit on Horizon. (November 19, 2015)
A small town redevelopment effort to revitalize vacant industrial property surprised city council members when it was revealed that the Institute for…
Which campaign is being attacked on eminent domain?Donald Trump
What’s the ad tag line? “That’s the real Trump record; fighting for himself, not for us,” (for Trump’s benefit from eminent domain for his enterprises)
WallStreet Journal Washington Wire | Anti-Trump Super PAC Airs Radio Ad in New Hampshire
The usual suspects- Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rubio talk eminent domain reform on the campaign trail. Now Bernie Sanders has joined the fray by saying :
“Iowans shouldn’t have their land forcibly taken through eminent domain for use in the proposed Bakken oil pipeline.”
“”The idea of using the power of eminent domain to increase private profits does not make a lot of sense to me,” he said.”
Sounds just like the right’s – no private gain from eminent domain- mantra.
Where is the private property rights group forming? Mt. Airy North Carolina
What type of project sparked the group’s formation? A local redevelopment plan
What’s the group’s goal? To remove private property from the local redevelopment plan
Why? The local government’s plan to redevelop land that it holds, expanded to include private property of a former city council candidate
What concerns about eminent domain does the group have?
What’s happening? The Texas Legislative Reference Library circulated Civil Asset Reform Information.
What group is putting out the civil asset reform information? Institute for Justice.
What’s the information say? over 100 editorials nation wide are calling for civil asset forfeiture reform.
Why does this matter? Interim Charges call for reviewing civil asset laws. TPPF has been calling for civil asset reform for a couple years.
Why is this a Texas issue? Local governmental entities…
Art to stop eminent domain, who came up with that? eco-artist Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees
What’s the goal of using art to stop eminent domain? To prevent private corporations from gaining eminent domain for natural gas pipelines on private property
How will art stop eminent domain? 1990 Visual Artists Rights Acts (VARA) may provide extra protection to landowners
Cornell Daily Sun | Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees & the Fight Against Pipelines
Texans Aginst High Speed Rail are advising land owners to:
Navasota & Grimes County Examiner | An open letter from TAHSR to Texans
A documentary about a pipeline that would start in Belton, South Carolina, run through Georgia and end in Jacksonville is in the works. The top 3 concerns that emerged from landowners are: