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Related: About this forumCruz allies take aim at O'Rourke over eminent domain, father-in-law
By Patrick Svitek, Texas TribuneAllies of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are targeting his Democratic opponent, Beto ORourke, in a new TV ad over his support on the El Paso City Council for a plan to redevelop downtown El Paso that raised the threat of eminent domain.
The plan never went that far but fueled a contentious chapter in El Paso politics starting over a decade ago. The new TV ad from the Club for Growth a national conservative group that recently announced a seven-figure offensive in the race portrays ORourke as a puppet of wealthy developers who pushed the project, including his father-in-law, Bill Sanders.
El Pasos rich and powerful stay that way by controlling politicians like Beto ORourke, a narrator says in the 30-second spot. As a councilman, Beto carried water for his wealthy father-in-law, the developer behind a downtown redevelopment scheme, pushing the city to bulldoze an historic Hispanic neighborhood using eminent domain."
The ad goes on to refer to eminent domain as a government wrecking ball and ends by tagging ORourke as Beto the Bully.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/04/cruz-orourke-el-paso-eminent-domain/
Meadowoak
(5,555 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,323 posts)It's the advocacy group for the under-endowed.
safeinOhio
(32,709 posts)for oil pipe lines too?
Rowdyag
(105 posts)Not so much...Cruz supported the project by transCanada that took her land.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Coming from Cruz now, and he should be scared, especially if he's exposed for being tied to russian money funneled with the NRA help for him from putin , or he has ties to Cambridge Analytica. Will we find out Cruz is another corrupt liar in the KGOP soon? No one lies that much that isn't corrupt.
ananda
(28,870 posts).. Beto voted to get rid of it ultimately.
"While eminent domain was never used in conjunction with the project, the specter of it was controversial from the start. ORourke was among those on the council who at least initially wanted to preserve the option of eminent domain as a last resort and, for example, helped defeat a June 2006 motion to rule it out. A month later, as public concerns were growing about the plan, the council including ORourke voted to ban the use of eminent domain during the first year of the project."