JEB EMINENT DOMAIN FAIL LEADS TO BUSH SCANDAL RE-OPENED!
It’s one thing to offer a home owner up to $5 million in repeated offers to buy a piece of property worth 6 figures, and walk away when it is clear the answer is no, as in the Case of Vera versus Trump. Of which the property is still standing, only to be looked upon as a run down eye sore.
It is also important to note that Trump’s casino investments in Atlantic City helped to turn a run down area that was on the skids, into a thriving hot spot on the map. Yes, that’s right. Atlantic City was run down and on it’s Detroit styled economic death bed until Trump invested in it and built it up, making it the thriving Atlantic City tourist attraction we all came to know an love, in spite of a rather out of place building standing out in the middle.
It is quite another thing to use your government clout to actually seize property under the eminent domain opportunities that Jeb Bush agreed to at the debate, but failed to explain his families underhanded familiarity of the use of eminent domain for underhanded PRIVATE deals he so boldly and falsely blamed Trump of doing.
What is now kind of front page news again is the Bush scandal of 2005 – abusing eminent domain to cushion his own private sector interests.
“(The Chicago Tribune reported in July 2005 that)“members of the Mathes family [the owners of the property that was condemned to build the stadium] thought their 13 acres were worth $7.5 million, [but] were offered $817,000 to make way for the baseball stadium. After many years in court and substantial lawyers’ fees, they got the $7.5 million.”
That … set of facts – an offer of $817,000 for a $7.5 million property – suggests the nature of what we’re up against. It looks like grand larceny.
The Rangers new owners apparently refused to pay the court-ordered $7.5 million settlement for the land Mr. Bush seized (through eminent domain). As a reader from Arlington wrote last week:
The Rangers refused to pay the difference to the Mathes family, which forced the City of Arlington to pay it in order to protect its bond rating. This in turn caused increased taxes and decreased services – all to make that little moron even wealthier than he already was.”
Read more here: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/11/08/more-on-bushs-eminent-domain-14-mil-windfall/
(Listen to the applause Jeb gets, and boos Trump gets on this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39tg54LNZvU
So there you have it folks. Eminent domain can be good, and it can be bad. It can also be scandalous. Jeb needs to learn when to just be quiet, but, obviously he is among the other establishment elite who believe the people have no memories, and are uninformed illiterates that must be pushed and shown who to vote for as we can’t make intelligent decisions.
Also read: http://makethemaccountable.com/tax/SaleOfBaseballTeam.htm
http://quadrangleonline.com/2016/02/07/jeb-bush-and-donald-trump-have-a-heated-exchange-over/
Dianne Marshall
https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/jeb-eminent-domain-fail-leads-to-bush-scandal-re-opened/
Jesse Hardy
Fighting to keep his land
Jesse Hardy became disabled from a chopper jump after 14 years of service as a U.S. Navy Seal. In civilian life, he became involved in real estate. In those days, the best time to buy Florida property was during rainy season, exposing the high, dry land. In 1976, Hardy bought 160 acres in Collier County less than two miles south of the east-west corridor of I-75.
It is recorded as being 13-to-14-feet above sea level.
Jesse got the idea of creating 20-acre fish ponds for families to visit, camp and fish. He obtained necessary permits from the county and state, and proceeded to dig, selling the quality limestone to the county for road fill. A win-win situation.
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Jesse and Tommy
His hopes and dreams for Tommy's future were running high.
Those who helped him with the permitting had a change of heart. The 8.5 billion dollar Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project (CERP) includes deconstruction of roads and plugging canals (originally built to drain the land and direct water to the Gulf). The intent of the project is to restore natural water flows. The government proceeded to buy out all privately owned land in South Golden Gate Estates, formerly planned for housing developments. Hardy, the last lone holdout realized that the Northern-most point of CERP is some eight miles south of his property, and that flooding cannot occur unless his 160 acres is leveled, which isn't in the plan.
Hardy and his son lived a primitive life with all the necessary commodities, clean water and air, a generator for refrigeration, air conditioning and heating. This was his choice. He valued his land above any material things in life, and was generous and willing to share his fortune with families, in an education process of days gone by.
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Hardy had one of his finished lakes stocked with fish and he and Tommy enjoyed their time fishing and swimming. A remarkable feat, since Tommy was born with hydrocephalus and diagnosed with the inability to ever walk. His grandmother asked Hardy to take him in and care for him, as cancer would soon be taking her life.
Today, Tommy attends school, rides a bike and performs like any boy, thanks to Hardy's custodial love and patient willingness.
For years, Jesse Hardy fought with all his might to hang on to his homesteaded property. In the end, at the last of twelve hours of negotiations, Hardy signed over his property to the state. He was beat and broken.
The state paid him 4.95 million dollars for his 160 acres with lakes and limestone deposits. Nowhere in Florida can Jesse buy another 160 acres, and certainly not with leftover cash after attorney fees. About half of his gains were spent on the purchase of a 2-acre lot with a modest home in Collier County.
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Stocked Pond
His dream of aquaculture farming and family camping for Tommy's future, is now lost.
The 55,000 acres called Southern Golden Gate Estates, South blocks, were purchased with tax dollars. Condemnation of 200 miles of roads, along with 25 or 30 bridges, is just a part of the growing 8.5 billion dollar project approved by voters as "Florida Forever Project" in 1999.
http://jessehardy.com/
Program details eluded the minds of voters, as did the expected overruns and no guaranteed results in achieving the desired outcome. In the meantime, private property is taken, not just by eminent domain, but by harassment, attorney fees, forced wetlands, mitigation fees, and saving endangered species for environmental and state control.