{"id":421,"date":"2016-02-14T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/02\/14\/high-speed-rail-sparks-anti-eminent-domain-statements-1-univeristy-acts-3-tx-elected-officials-speak\/"},"modified":"2016-02-14T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:24:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-sparks-anti-eminent-domain-statements-1-univeristy-acts-3-tx-elected-officials-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-sparks-anti-eminent-domain-statements-1-univeristy-acts-3-tx-elected-officials-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail Sparks Anti-Eminent Domain Statements. 1 Univeristy Acts. 3 TX Elected Officials Speak."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why does Texas A&amp;M Student Senate oppose eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0The proposed high speed rail that would traverse rural Texas triggered the vote<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the elected officials, who were present, say about eminent domain? &#8220;<\/strong>Their resounding message was that voting in favor the Eminent Domain Opposition Act is akin to advocating for the protection of property owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which State Representatives and State Senators participated in Texas A&amp;M Student Senate eminent domain debate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Charles Schwertner<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Trent Ashby<\/li>\n<li>Rep. John Wray \u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat I want to ask you to do is to vote in favor of this bill, because if you do that you\u2019re voting in favor of property rights,\u201d Wray said. \u201cIf you do that you\u2019re voting in favor of fair market value. If you do that you\u2019re voting in favor of keeping the phrase \u2018willing\u2019 in front of the phrase \u2018seller.\u2019 And you\u2019re voting to uphold the free market.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebatt.com\/news\/state-politicians-lobbyists-students-clash-on-high-speed-rail\/article_e302e85c-d086-11e5-abb7-5fa541f3d243.html\">The Battilion |\u00a0<strong>State politicians, lobbyists, students clash on high-speed rail<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why does Texas A&amp;M Student Senate oppose eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0The proposed high speed rail that would traverse rural Texas triggered the vote<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the elected officials, who were present, say about eminent domain? &#8220;<\/strong>Their resounding message was that voting in favor the Eminent Domain Opposition Act is akin to advocating for the protection of property owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which State Representatives and State Senators participated in Texas A&amp;M Student Senate eminent domain debate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Charles&#8230;<\/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":[36,3,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}