Eminent Domain Inititiatives

Now that I have all of you here, I thought I'd mention a couple anti- eminent domain abuse inititiatives being circulated now.

Most of us were justifiably outraged by the Supreme Court ruling in Kelo vs. New London(?) where the court ruled that local governments could seize property from one private party to give it to another private party.

Of the four or so efforts to use California's initiative process to stop such abuses, two survive to this day and are in circulation:

The so- called People's Inititiative is available for download as a .pdf file at LimitEminentDomain.org. I urge everyone to download the petition, print it out and get as many signatures as you can. Send it in, even if it only has your signature on it. Follow the instructions and remember; P.O. Boxes can't be used for your address.

The other one, the Anderson Inititative, is in circulation, as well. They are taking donations throught their web site but the petition isn't available for download due to the size of the petition. You can check them out here.

Speaking of petition size; I've long felt that if the content of the petition couldn't fit on one piece of paper, it's probably something I really don't want to sign. Don't know if that's the case here. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

The Anderson Initiative is the one State Senator, Tom McClintock, is backing after giving up on his own initiative effort, so that does say something positive about it.