{"id":331,"date":"2015-08-19T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/08\/19\/bretibart-goes-to-bat-for-california-farmers\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T22:19:00","slug":"bretibart-goes-to-bat-for-california-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/bretibart-goes-to-bat-for-california-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bretibart Goes to bat for California Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Brown is proposing to take land via eminent doamin from 300 farmers so some river deltas can be reworked to bring more water to populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart engaged a water and land use lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, who said 3 important things:,\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No oversight in eminent domain projects:<\/strong>&#8220;..the use of eminent domain does not allow for a proper system of \u201cchecks and balances,\u201d even for controversial state infrastructure projects.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>California\u00a0can start work before legal issues are resolved.<\/strong>\u201cThe fact that they don\u2019t have the project approved has generally not been a bar to acquiring the property,\u201d Francois said. \u201cIf the project is controversial, they don\u2019t need any special approvals to acquire the property, and that starts making the project look more inevitable. [State contractors could say]\u00a0\u2018Hey, we\u2019ve already spent the money acquiring the property, we better get started building it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Is the compensation to farmers just?\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAre they only taking the property they need for the underground tunnels, or are they taking the surface estate as well?\u201d Francois said. \u201cIt\u2019s the cutting [the land] up that creates a significant problem that farmers think they are not getting properly compensated for.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/08\/18\/california-to-seize-farms-for-jerry-browns-water-tunnels\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Brown is proposing to take land via eminent doamin from 300 farmers so some river deltas can be reworked to bring more water to populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart engaged a water and land use lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, who said 3 important things:,\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No oversight in eminent domain projects:<\/strong>&#8220;..the use of eminent domain does not allow for a proper system of \u201cchecks and balances,\u201d even for controversial state infrastructure projects.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>California\u00a0can start work&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,3,2,42,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-legal-trend","category-pre-condemnation-access","category-private-property-rights","category-regulatory-trend","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}