Testimony of Susette Kelo before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Center For Individual Freedom
by staff
09/22/05
I sincerely hope that Congress will do what judges and local legislators so far have refused to do for me and for thousands of people like me across the nation: protect our homes under a plain reading of the U.S. Constitution. Federal lawmakers should pass legislation that will withhold federal development funding for cities that abuse eminent domain for private development -- such as the one that could take my home, which received $2 million in federal funds. What we have now at the local, state and federal level amounts to 'government by the highest bidder,' and that has got to stop...
http://tinyurl.com/cbgfx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
09/22/05
I sincerely hope that Congress will do what judges and local legislators so far have refused to do for me and for thousands of people like me across the nation: protect our homes under a plain reading of the U.S. Constitution. Federal lawmakers should pass legislation that will withhold federal development funding for cities that abuse eminent domain for private development -- such as the one that could take my home, which received $2 million in federal funds. What we have now at the local, state and federal level amounts to 'government by the highest bidder,' and that has got to stop...
http://tinyurl.com/cbgfx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Sep, 13:49