Neb. Senate candidate waits until neighbors die, changes law to take land

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http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/10/19/deb-fischer-evil/

Nebraska Sen. Candidate Couldn’t Get Squatter’s Rights on Her Neighbor’s Land, So She Waited Until They Died and Changed the Law to Take It



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In Nebraska, the “social backlash” described by Thomas Frank in What’s The Matter With Kansas? is playing out before Nebraskans’ eyes as they are being asked to choose between an aging leader who was once a favorite to become President and a State Senator, Deb Fischer, who has engaged in some brutally unethical behavior of late.

Julie Driscoll breaks it down at Freak Out Nation:

The back story (and this is an awful story): Like many of us whose grandparents farmed, owned land, and lived their lives with sheer love of the land and pride of ownership, Les and Betty Kime’s grandparents, beginning in the late 1890?s, developed the Snake River Falls Ranch, beautiful land which surrounds the Snake River and includes the largest waterfall in all of Nebraska. Republican Senator Deb Fischer and her husband, Bruce, operate a cattle ranch near the Kimes, and – as Nebraska neighbors are wont to do – the Kimes generously allowed the Fischers to graze their cattle on a part of their land near the Snake River and next to the McKelvie National Forest. Nice picture, yes? Neighbors helping neighbors, cattle grazing placidly on beautiful land, with access to water and in the shadow of the picturesque forest. But above that peaceful optic, a dark cloud of conflict was heading toward Les and Betty Kime, in the form of Deb Fischer and her husband.

Anybody with a pulse can understand the idea that the land is valuable but not as valuable as family tradition. Deb Fischer, though, turned to the Nebraska legal doctrine of “adverse possession” to declare the land that her cattle were being allowed to graze upon freely (as a favor) was hers. Adverse possession is basically squatter’s rights, only Fischer tried to use it for acres of someone’s personal history, not an apartment in Brooklyn.

The backstory is damning despite the fact that the courts sided with the Klimes 14 years ago and prevented the land grab from taking place. But Fischer’s most recent actions are even worse.

[julian09]

1. With Repugs no good deed goes unpunished.

[formercia]

2. This is like something out of an old Western

Things don't change much in Neb.

But, then, Immigrants took the Americas by Adverse Possession......and killed off most of the locals.

[imanamerican63]

3. You think Romney's bad???

This lady is what Romney puts in his binder! They are the same type of tycoons, rich and believes if it what they want they take, if they don't like what is said, they change it and all of the other things that goes in their world. It may not enough to stop her run, but when the rest of U.S., see what she is made of, will find out what most Nebraskans already knows!

[GitRDun]

4. You really have to stifle your vomit to get through that story

I get so aggravated reading stories like this. The only way people like Fischer get in is either blind partisanship or being unaware of who you are voting for. In this age of information there is NO EXCUSE for being a low information voter. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for Kerrey. I can only imagine what she'll do with the advantages of being a US Senator.

[beac]

5. What a vile human being. In other words,

a typical republican politician.

Disgusting.

[Dokkie]

6. Gah, I cant stand this woman

This is exactly what a welfare queen looks like. She and her family have enriched themselves from freeloading off govt properties.

[Stargazer09]

7. She's getting desperate now

Just heard a radio ad here in Omaha. Men talking about the "vile attacks" from Kerrey, and how Deb Fischer is "such a good neighbor." I've received two different brochures about Deb's land grab in the last week or so, and I think it is hurting her chances of getting elected.

She seems like a nasty woman, and since the land grab is part of the public record, she can't accuse Kerrey of lying.

I'm not from here (we're a military family), but most of the locals don't seem to like the idea of stealing land from an elderly couple.