Boogerman And Little Marco Hate Eminent Domain When Trump Uses It, Love It For Pipelines

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n the mid 1990s, Trump tried unsuccessfully to seize the home of Vera Coking, an elderly widow in Atlantic City, to build limousine parking for his adjacent Trump Plaza hotel and casino. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have attacked Trump over the case, calling it a clear abuse of eminent domain—the mandatory sale of private land for public use. The Cruz campaign in a recent ad called eminent domain a "fancy term for politicians seizing private property to enrich the fat cats who bankroll them—like Trump."

When it comes to parking lots and casinos, government seizure of private property is an easy issue for politicians to oppose. But when it comes to forcing landowners to sell property so that private companies can build pipelines, it's an issue nobody is talking about. Cruz, Rubio and all the other Republican candidates for president have come out in support of pipeline projects such as the Keystone XL, which couldn't be built without the use of eminent domain.

"I think it's fascinating that Cruz and Rubio are trying to use eminent domain to hit Donald Trump, yet both of them obviously support Keystone XL and I'm sure any other pipeline that you would ask them about," said Jane Kleeb, founder of the activist group Bold Nebraska. The organization fought the Keystone XL pipeline to carry Canadian tar sands oil to the Gulf Coast. President Barack Obama ruled against the final section of the pipeline from Alberta to southern Nebraska, though Trump and other Republican presidential candidates have pledged to approve the project.

"You can't have it both ways," Kleeb said. "Republicans are actually going to have to reconcile with this. Their entire conservative movement was based on rejecting the notion of using eminent domain for private gain, and yet when it comes to fossil fuel projects, they 100 percent support it."

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http://insideclimatenews.org/news/29022016/eminent-domain-oil-pipelines-keystone-xl-republican-donald-trump-ted-cruz

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1. Hypocrisy......

I can't figure out why Trump doesn't say to these guys that attack him on his business dealings that - he is functioning under the laws that they gave him. If it deals with eminent domain, bankruptcy, hiring foreign workers, getting his ties/clothes made in China, etc. Before he entered this primary race he's was/is a businessman first. As such he took advantage of the rules of the game that they created for people like him - the 1%. Of course as a businessman he's in it to make money. He'd be stupid if he didn't.

Here's what I think he should say to them (not that I want to give Trump any ideas):

And if you guys that are Senators (Rubio & Cruz) don't like what I did/do - change the laws so people like me can't get away with that.

But now that I'm on the other side and running for President - I know where the problems lie and I'm going to change things so that the system can't be taken advantage of.

This is what the establishment Repugs don't want to hear. They in fact are the con artists and they're trying to con The People and make them think that they care about them when in reality - they just want to protect the things that they are criticizing Trump of doing - for the 1%'ers.

Golly - how convoluted and confounding. The very things the Repug Party stands for - they are criticizing Trump for doing.