Bush team involved in "eminent" land grab
07/06/05
The recent Supreme Court decision to uphold a plan by the city of New Haven, CT, to exercise eminent domain in the taking of residential property in a waterfront neighborhood for development by private interests. ... This is not the first time that a group of well-connected entrepreneurs has persuaded a municipality to seize private property in order to facilitate their planned development project. It happened in Arlington -- Arlington, Texas, that is, and one of the entrepreneurs, albeit a small bore one, was our nominal president, G.W. Bush, at the time a failed, would-be oil man, but one with a magic -- in Texas anyway -- last name...
http://tinyurl.com/blduy
from Press & Sun Bulletin, by David Rossie
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The recent Supreme Court decision to uphold a plan by the city of New Haven, CT, to exercise eminent domain in the taking of residential property in a waterfront neighborhood for development by private interests. ... This is not the first time that a group of well-connected entrepreneurs has persuaded a municipality to seize private property in order to facilitate their planned development project. It happened in Arlington -- Arlington, Texas, that is, and one of the entrepreneurs, albeit a small bore one, was our nominal president, G.W. Bush, at the time a failed, would-be oil man, but one with a magic -- in Texas anyway -- last name...
http://tinyurl.com/blduy
from Press & Sun Bulletin, by David Rossie
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Jul, 16:20
