A well reasoned and articulate argument to vote FOR Prop. 207; Limiting Eminent Domain.

Read entire article by David Euchner here.

Highlights:

"This proposition protects the rights of all property owners, rich and poor alike, from the misuse of eminent domain. The only people who stand to lose are politicians."

"Politicians hate Prop. 207 because it puts strict controls on how they may use eminent domain to take property. Small-town politicians — Democrats and Republicans alike — have been taking people's homes and small businesses and giving that property to real estate developers or large corporations."

I first came to appreciate Scrog Hill on the last night of the last day of 1980.  Since then I have always thought of it as a public resource and a treasure that has come to represent Arizona, Phoenix in particular.  It was one of those landmarks, like Camelback Mountain or the Praying Monk; that you could count on to stay the same.  Now it’s been tainted by political fingering, an insulting pat on the figurative head of all those of American Indian descent.

Corruption and Waste

We need only look to our current Governor and Attorney General who not only abdicated their responsibilities to protect the resources of Arizona’s Citizens but they have delivered to us the glaring examples of extra-Constitutional squandering in the Alternative Fuels Fiasco, the use of public funds to favor a major private entertainment venture, that I call “Fumble Field”, and scores of other examples.