{"id":110,"date":"2015-02-03T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/03\/private-rail-company-is-a-threat-10th-amendment-invoked-by-rep-metcalf\/"},"modified":"2015-02-03T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:09:00","slug":"private-rail-company-is-a-threat-10th-amendment-invoked-by-rep-metcalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/private-rail-company-is-a-threat-10th-amendment-invoked-by-rep-metcalf\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Rail Company is a Threat. 10th Amendment Invoked by Rep. Metcalf."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put 800 people together, many of whom are conservative, and momentum builds to oppose\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0private entity from using eminent domain to build a new transportation network.<\/p>\n<p>What don&#8217;t people like about private companies using eminent domain?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. Will Metcalf:\u00a0\n<p>\u201cI am not a happy camper,\u201d said state Rep. Will Metcalf, R-Conroe, adding he is frustrated by the lack of transparency on the project. \u201cThey are moving forward and we need your help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe private enterprise should have eminent domain power. In regard to the 10th Amendment, I talked a lot about this during my campaign; we are living it here today. Federal overreach, they are bypassing us at the state, the county, and that is not OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Former Montgomery County Judge: &#8221;\u00a0one of the biggest threats to the county I have seen in years&#8221; It&#8217;s extreme, folks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Precinct 2 Commissioner Charlie Riley: Determined to stop the project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rep. Mark Keough vows to stop the project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>County Commissioners passed a resolution opposing the project.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 10th amendment is increasingly popular symbol of federal intrusion. It&#8217;s like a rally cry for conservatives.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/courier\/news\/pack-center-against-high-speed-rail-project\/article_71a73a2b-7365-578d-9b99-d852dca1dfc0.html\">\u00a0Montgomery County Courier\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put 800 people together, many of whom are conservative, and momentum builds to oppose\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0private entity from using eminent domain to build a new transportation network.<\/p>\n<p>What don&#8217;t people like about private companies using eminent domain?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. Will Metcalf:\u00a0\n<p>\u201cI am not a happy camper,\u201d said state Rep. Will Metcalf, R-Conroe, adding he is frustrated by the lack of transparency on the project. \u201cThey are moving forward and we need your help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe pr&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}