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[2014 + 1994] Atlantic City Wants to Bulldoze a Home to Benefit a Casino
reason.com ^ | May 20, 2014 | Damon Root

Posted on 01/25/2016 1:11:46 PM PST by huldah1776

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I just had to look for proof about this lady's house. Should have done it sooner, I guess. Read the court documents here:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13215941806857520148&q=Casino+Reinvestment+Development+Authority+v.+Coking&hl=en&as_sdt=6,33

1 posted on 01/25/2016 1:11:46 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

We went over this yesterday. She should have read “Art of the Deal” and taken the $1.8 mil for that rat trap. She was unduly influenced by her relatives. She lost. End of story.


2 posted on 01/25/2016 1:15:45 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: huldah1776

Keystone Pipeline.
For it?

People get paid well above market price for roadways, pipelines, and developments that produce big tax revenue.

Often holdouts just want more $$$.


3 posted on 01/25/2016 1:15:58 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Sacajaweau
We went over this yesterday. She should have read “Art of the Deal” and taken the $1.8 mil for that rat trap. She was unduly influenced by her relatives. She lost. End of story.

Yup. She bought it for what...20K? And in less then 20 years could have sold it for $1.8 mil...more then generous compensation.

4 posted on 01/25/2016 1:17:49 PM PST by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: huldah1776
Well, she certainly showed Trump.

Instead of the million plus he offered, she may have gotten 600,000 - if that.

Brilliant! BRILLIANT!!!

5 posted on 01/25/2016 1:18:07 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: huldah1776

The Weekly Standard did an article on it yesterday (I was watching the Trump documentaries all afternoon)...

‘”His ad is wrong because I never knocked down that house. I wanted to get that house to build a building that would have employed tremendous numbers of people. But when the woman didn’t want to sell, ultimately I said forget about it,” Trump said.”’

[HE LOST HIS CASE IN COURT]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-i-tried-but-failed-to-bulldoze-elderly-widows-home-for-my-casino-parking-lot/article/2000729


6 posted on 01/25/2016 1:18:12 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

Donald Trump fights for what he wants.

He went to court against a New Jersey widow to take her house for his Casino, an Arab themed beautiful design, like an Arabian themed motel of the 60’s. It was brilliant.

He goes to court for real things, important things. Business and jobs.

The housewife beat him, but that was just a fluke.

Ted Cruz goes to court for dumb things.

He argues boring cases at the Supremem Court. And he wins.

But it’s dull, boring.

No one cares, they aren’t important and have no significance.

Trumps law suits are about something.


7 posted on 01/25/2016 1:18:21 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TigerClaws
Keystone Pipeline.
For it?

Yes, I am for it. I'm not for government taking private property from one person and giving to another person. If you need to connect a road or build a bridge across someone's land, you may have a point. But building a casino is not a government project.

8 posted on 01/25/2016 1:18:49 PM PST by Stegall Tx (How do we get rid of the weirdness?)
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To: huldah1776

I have to say that while I have consumate hatred for our worthless governor Jerry The Fairy Brown, he has done one thing that I do commend him for, and that is doing away with all our municipal “Redevelopment Agencies.” These crooks have been using “blight laws” where blight doesn’t exist to take property, hand it over to private entities, and at the same time, take the RE off the property tax rolls for an extended period of time. That last “feature” just serves to boost the taxes of the rest of us suckers while the fat cats get unfair deals on the properties involved along with cheap government financing for their “projects.” The government needs to be completely out of the “redevelopment business.”


9 posted on 01/25/2016 1:19:02 PM PST by vette6387
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To: huldah1776

1994?

Supposedly The Donald talked back to his parents once back around 1952 when he was a kid and it has been reported that sometime around 1958 he hung out with some other kid who smoked cigarettes he snuck from his mother’s purse.


10 posted on 01/25/2016 1:20:11 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Sacajaweau

Missed the discussion and did do a search for the Title but it didn’t come up. Hopefully others will see it because if I missed it someone else did, too. Thanks for letting me know. I would like to read the replies, do you remember the title?


11 posted on 01/25/2016 1:20:33 PM PST by huldah1776
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...tried to seize the home of an elderly widow...

I thought it was her 29-room boarding house.

Nothing says "home" like a snug little place for you and 20-odd strangers...

12 posted on 01/25/2016 1:21:26 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Iron Munro

The casino case was 1994. Good year! My jeep is that old. :)


13 posted on 01/25/2016 1:22:27 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Sacajaweau

She lost if her only motivation was money. I can’t believe what I’m reading here these days. Any old thing goes if it is Donald Trump saying or doing it.


14 posted on 01/25/2016 1:24:13 PM PST by buckeye49
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To: huldah1776

Having been to Atlantic City several times, I’m confident in saying the term Eminent Domain was invented for the blocks behind the casinos. It was the very definition of urban blight.


15 posted on 01/25/2016 1:24:37 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: huldah1776

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3388089/posts


16 posted on 01/25/2016 1:25:37 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: TigerClaws

Not in my experience. Trump’s offer was extraordinary. In NJ, the developers offer a pittance for the homes of middle-class people who live on the ocean. A pittance.


17 posted on 01/25/2016 1:25:57 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: ifinnegan

Nice. Heartwarming, too. I wish Cruz would side with Paul and defend the unborn. I may have to vote for Paul because God loves Paul’s defense of the innocent and hates child sacrifice. If God hates it, doesn’t matter how much Trump loves building things. One earthquake or meteor...I think the meteors are first.


18 posted on 01/25/2016 1:27:35 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: kiryandil

I’ve known 5 widows who hate change, can’t take it, and just want to stay home or do what is familiar (probably be close to loved ones). Money doesn’t matter, or should I say, priceless.


19 posted on 01/25/2016 1:30:52 PM PST by huldah1776
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"Mrs. Coking is an amazing lady, a incredible lady. We got along famously. I can't tell you the number of times she invited me over for dinner. Just because we couldn't agree on a little patch of land doesn't mean we couldn't still be friends. I was invited to her son's wedding. She asked me to be her grandson's godfather. Of course, I accepted because she's a such a truly beautiful person and an wonderful woman. There is no ill will between us. I was only trying to help out, but obviously, she didn't need the help. It's a shame her family finally sold the property for $1.2 million less than I offered her."
20 posted on 01/25/2016 1:31:49 PM PST by moovova
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