eminent domain

Hadden Twp, NJ – Conservative Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Lonegan held a press conference today to discuss the unconstitutionality of eminent domain. Lonegan stood at a privately owned insurance company surrounded by abandoned lots as he blasted Trenton bureaucrats for having too much control over private property rights.

Senator Diane Allen praises Public Advocate Ronald Chen's efforts to reform laws governing the relocation and redevelopment assistance, and urges that bills she has advocated for three years are allowed to move forward in the Legislature.

“While in Lyndhurst Jon Corzine should have visited with Mr. Amaral and apologized to him for his administrations failure top protect
property rights,” added Calabrese

Voters sent a loud, clear, and stunning message to the complacent political class in Trenton this week—enough business as usual, taxing, borrowing, and spending recklessly. They also dispelled the notion that New Jersey conservatism is dead and progressivism inexorably on the march. Voters have seen Trenton’s idea of progress, and they’re fed up with it. When ballot questions go down for the first time in 17 years, it should serve as a wake up call—but will it? Will the legislature follow the will of the voters or come up with even more clever ways to thwart it?

In 1998, New Jersey committed a staggering $3 billion to preserving so-called open space by floating more debt and mortgaging our children’s future. While the world was moving away from socialism with aggressive land reforms to allow property rights and markets to function in the area of land-use, New Jersey chose to go in the other direction, consolidating land control in the hands of state bureaucrats. The program has been, by any measure, a failure, falling well-short of its goals, although achieving the tragic “success” of moving over 300,000 acres of land from private citizens to the state.

"This tells us two things about Mr. Gordon; the first is that he is opposed to letting voters be part of the legislative process and secondly, that he opposes real eminent domain reform,”

Government satellites hover far overhead in silence, monitoring activities of citizens below, secretly surveying private property of unsuspecting residents.  Nameless, faceless government bureaucrats pour over maps, calculating and deliberating the fate of personal property, the value of which will rise and fall on their collectivist schemes, determining the fortunes of thousands of hard working Americans.  As government regulators decimate property values, all for the “Common Good,” central planners wield the power of Eminent Domain to advance their agenda.  The government’s resou

“I have seen the abuse of eminent domain up close and personal and I don’t like it and I will not be party to taking people’s homes or businesses to enhance a private redevelopment,” said Massa. 

BURZICHELLI: NEW EMINENT DOMAIN REPORT
A 'POWERFUL REMINDER' OF NEED FOR REFORMS

(PAULSBORO) - Assemblyman John Burzichelli said a report released today by state Public Advocate Ronald Chen detailing the shortcomings of the state's current eminent domain laws further documents the need for the Legislature to continue pursuing an overhaul of the practice in New Jersey.