Local Property Rights Assault (update)
First, Lobbygow reminds us that the Bush administration is considering filing a friend of the court briefing in Kelo v. New London.
Next up, my old friend Tearsa Smith has an article on how property is acquired through eminent domain. She left out the phrase usually unconstitutionally.
I am a bit annoyed that Wally, the owner of the property the county is looking to take, has apparently taken down most of the information on both his pages. He goes through the trouble of alerting local blogs, gets my panties in a bunch, then takes it down. What gives, Wally?
Update: Michael Silence notes: Board of Education chairman said Wednesday that he is going to return to the school system’s traditional method of negotiating for land.
Returning to the traditional method of actually negotiating in the first place?
Update 2: Info removed for now.
Update 3: For reader Steve K., Wally emails:
It’ll be back. It had nothing to do with anyone being upset about it. There were some inaccuracies that we were trying to get corrected.
Please let everyone know. I am not upset with the people on the School Board or in the School System. I believe that this is the “Wrong price, therefore, the wrong location” for a school.
January 20th, 2005 at 10:31 am
someone could have called him and threatened a lawsuit
January 20th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
He obviously took his webpage down for a good reason. It seems to me that a person would be an asshole if he reposted it without contacting Wally first and asking him why he took it down, and if it was ok to repost it.
January 20th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
Good point, steve, but I never claimed not to be an asshole. I would also think that it’d be a nice gesture to have notified others who took the time to draw some amount of attention to the issue that the info linked has been removed and why. I’ll remove it for now.