Didn't Trump offer her twice what the property was worth?
I read that he offered her four times its worth plus a suite in the hotel for the rest of her life.
Yes, you are right. The same posters keep posting the same misinformation and silly pictures over and over, never a fact or link, no many how times it’s been corrected.....and these are the good ‘Christian’ followers of Ted Cruz, who are trying to preach to us about morals, etc.
Let’s get it from their own mouths.
What the candidates talked about being of importance in their prez announcement speeches: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3395582/posts?page=136#136
Cruz’s entire speech was about ‘IMAGINATION’...
Cruz on Trade: Imagine instead of economic stagnation, booming economic growth.
(Not specifically ‘trade’, but as close as he got to it!)
Cruz on Immigration: Instead of the lawlessness and the president’s unconstitutional executive amnesty, imagine a president that finally, finally, finally secures the borders.
And imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.
Cruz on 2nd amendment: Instead of a government that works to undermine our Second Amendment rights, that seeks to ban our ammunition..... imagine a federal government that protects the right to keep and bear arms of all law-abiding Americans.
Cruz on Terror, Isis, refugees, Middle East: Imagine a president who says “We will stand up and defeat radical Islamic terrorism...”
“... and we will call it by its name.”
THAT’s it!
But he mentioned CUBA FIVE TIMES!
“torture in Cuba, growing up in Cuba, he flees Cuba, free Cuba from the dictator,
Cuba was not at a peaceful time.”
Yes Trump did offer her a lot of money. At first she asked $1 mill. He didn’t want to give that much, so he offered less, and she said no - no harm no foul.
The history of the Coking widow.
In the late 1970s, Penthouse tycoon Bob Guccione, eager to get in on the Atlantic City casino action, offered Coking $1 million for her lot. She refused. Exasperated, Guccione tried to build his facility around the house, but his project went broke before he could finish, leaving a MASSIVE steel frame looming over Coking’s place for more than a decade.
So, here was a massive steel framework virtually encasing the “house”. She had run the property as a rooming house (because that is what it was built as), but did not take any borders from the time the first casino was built in 1978. She hoped to capitalize on her property due to proximity to the casino. Why rent to low income “roomers” when you can sell for a million bucks?
Trump comes along in the early 90’s and acquires the unfinished Guccione project, and the CRDA (the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority) offered her low market value - condition considered, and she refused. She wanted one million (even though she had refused that same amount when offered to her in 1980), (then later on down the road when Trump came up to her asking she refused her own price).
She blamed Trump personally for some damage done to her roof by the construction company that had the job of disassembling that steel structure that Guccione had built OVER her house.
The construction company took ownership of the damage, and offered to pay her $90,000 to have repairs. She refused. She wanted more and she wanted to sue Trump in the bargain. The judge wouldn’t go for that. Eventually she took the $90,000 because she was so far in arrears on her property taxes that she was in immediate danger of having the house foreclosed for unpaid taxes.
Superior Court Judge Richard Williams said the attempt by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to aquire the property for a new parking lot and a public park at Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino was flawed because it did not guarantee that the company would not later use the land simply to expand the business. Yet, Trump never did do anything with that land after he had the structure removed from except build a parking lot AND a landscaped public green-space, which had the added effect of being a terrific benefit to Coklin.
AND - it was reported in the newspapers that Trump not only eventually offered her 2+ million, but in addition to also provide her a free place to live in Palm Beach FL for the remainder of her life. The widow refused, and her property was listed on the market for $5 mil. No takers.
She was packed off to a nursing home not long ago and the property was auctioned off to satisfy property tax liens. The auction brought $560,000. and Trump did not even offer. The rooming house has since been leveled.
It doesn’t matter WHAT he offered her. It is hers. It is her property. If she doesn’t want to sell, that should be the end of it.
Why is this hard?
It doesn’t matter what he offered. It was her property and she didn’t want to sell. The use of emminent domain for private use is new and is not the same as use for public use.