Campaign Trend: Eminent Domain in a RED State Senate Race

In Mississippi, the Republican candidate for Senate district 37, wants voters to know she is pro private propety rights and supports eminent domain reform.

The Republican says her opponent, the former state Senator back in 2009 “sided with Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, who had vetoed a bill that would limit eminent domain. Barbour argued the limitation would hurt economic development, and Dearing agreed.”

Mississippi voters later approved eminent domain reforms in 2011.

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Candidate for Railroad Commission, Eminent Domain & Pipelines. RRC Did only Bureaucratic Busy Work.

Dr. Mark Miller, the 2014 Libertarian nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, and announced his candidacy for Texas Railroad Commissioner in 2016. From his statement:

“Among them were appropriate regulations for wastewater wells that trigger earthquakes and eminent domain abuse by common carrier pipelines. Sadly, regulations promulgated by the Commission under Porter’s watch turned out to be nothing more than window-dressing, resulting in additional bureaucratic busy-work, but with no…

Club for Growth. Eminent Domain. Trump.

Club for Growth, the fiscal conservative group, put out a White Paper on Trump.

  • “Donald Trump is not a pro-growth conservative.
  • He has advocated for universal, government-run health care, for a massive new tax, and for the abuse of eminent domain so the government could forcibly buy up your property for a developer to build a shopping center,”
  • …the Club believes he [Trump] would not govern as president in accord with the pro-growth principles of limited taxation, free trade, less…

Eminent Domain and the Border Wall

Connecting the dots, HotAir explains that to build a border wall, requires that land be acquired.  Acquiring land by a governmental entity,  lends itself to eminent domain when landowners aren’t willing to give up their land.

Eminent Domain for a border wall is being called:

  • more symbolic than substantive
  • serious limits on what a fence can do
  •  sharply declining returns on those fencing investments
  • costly
  • inefective

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CATO, Koch & The Trump Campaign. Eminent Domain. Issue Teed Up for Next Presidential Debate.

CATO, the libertarian leaning think tank, sounding the horn on Donald Trump and his reliance on eminent domain.

The juicy bits:

  • “But no one seems to have brought up a bullying business practice he’s particularly fond of: eminent domain.”
  • Trump benefits “from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes.”
  • “Conservatives were especially outraged by this assault on property rights. Not Donald Trump, though. He told Neil Cavuto on Fox News: “I happen to…

Eminent Domain Propels Candidate to Enter Race

Mississippi State Senator Mike Seymour entered the race for his seat due to his opposition to eminent domain and China…. In his words:

“”The thing that separates us from Russia and China and all is our property rights. I understand eminent domain for transportation and stuff like that but when it comes to economic development, it shouldn’t be the government taking your property and selling it to another entity to generate more tax revenue. That’s not America. It’s something that…

Rand Paul Attacks Donald Trump on Eminent Domain. The new primary test- private property rights. No eminent domain for private gain mantra readied.

Rand Paul vows to focus on private property rights and eminent domain abuses to show why Trump is not in line with Republican primary voters. 

What things are we going to hear?

  • Rand Paul supports private property rights and opposes Kelo
  • Donald Trump loves Kelo
  • Donald Trump is a property rights abuser
  • Kelo is crony capitalism that favors big business
  • no eminent domain for private gain.

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Iowans Say the Darndest Things About Pipelines

Iowa- home the Presidential state fair and its fair share of pipelines. One Iowan expressed these views of the Ames Tribune:

“I see only corporate greed, trampling of private property rights and a threat to Iowa’s environment. Here’s my beef: show me the public good. “

His comments reflect tw growing eminent domain trends:

  • a message & campaign trend of “no eminent domain for private (corporate) gain”
  • a legal trend of denying pipelines eminnet domain when the pipelines do not…

Property Rights. Eminent Domain. SD 24 Campaign. You Won't Believe it.

Entering the SD 24 campaign is Christopher “C.J.” Grisham of Temple. He is the founder of Open Carry Texas, and has very specific views on private property rights.

Let’s take a peek, shall we? He says:

  • “Property taxes are a form of slavery. When the government has the power to seize your property just because you don’t pay a ransom in the form of a tax, we don’t truly have private property rights.”

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