Posted on 05/12/2012 2:59:09 PM PDT by davidbellow
more info at http://donwillett.com
I included the re-elect Justice Don Willett video html but I guess the video html did not work because the video is not displaying...
Before you vote for Don Willett, remember he is one of the five justices that stuck down the Texas Open Beaches Act in 2010 and reaffirmed that decision in 2011. Here is a good summary
http://www.texasobserver.org/forrestforthetrees/beach-bummer-the-texas-supreme-court-guts-the-open-beaches-act
“That august body of reason and enlightenment, the Texas Supreme Court, has written an obituary for Texas’ public beaches. In a 5-3 decision handed down today, the all-Republican court reaffirmed an earlier decision that undermines Texas’ half-century-old Open Beaches Act and the much-older tradition of people freely enjoying the beaches from South Padre Island to Sabine Pass.
The public has long been guaranteed access to beaches in Texas. But what happens when erosion pushes the public’s easement onto what was previously private property? The state, for decades, has enforced a “rolling easement,” so that when erosion, sea-level rise or storms push the beach back, the strip of public beach moves too. Now the Supreme Court has at least partially undone that policy. After hurricanes or other “avulsive events,” the majority wrote, “the land encumbered by the easement is lost to the public trust, along with the easement attached to that land.” In other words, the easement doesn’t “roll” after storms.”
I WILL NOT VOTE FOR JUSTICE WILLETT! And if you enjoy Texas beaches - neither should you!
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