eminent domain
Is YOUR Home Safe? You’ve got a three-story mansion or a 30-year-old doublewide, it is your home. You work hard to pay your taxes and your bills. You try your best to keep your gutters clean and your grass mowed. You look out for your neighbors, and they look out for you. Your home is the very best that you can provide for your family. Your home has been your castle — until now. Your constitutional rights just took a serious blow.
The U.S. Supreme Court stunned us with a redefinition of eminent domain. The town of New London, Conn., approved a private development plan designed to revitalize its ailing economy and then purchased most of the property from willing sellers. When a few homeowners refused, the city condemned their homes. The homeowners sued, claiming that seizing their properties violates the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause. Last June the Supreme Court ruled in favor of New London. Consequently, any government entity can lawfully seize private property and hand it over to private developers.
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Charleston) has spent that last several months crafting legislation to strengthen our state’s eminent domain laws. In the wake of this shocking ruling, we are committed to addressing property rights legislation. We will not rest until the New London scenario becomes absolutely impossible in South Carolina! If you have an opinion on this or any other matter, feel free to post it!
May 24th, 2006 at 12:37 am
not very progressive. the public good is a very good reason for takings. quit trying to be the populist in the senate…that old trick comes from backward (and back woods) thinking!!
May 24th, 2006 at 12:37 am
not very progressive. the public good is a very good reason for takings. quit trying to be the populist in the senate…that old trick comes from backward (and back woods) thinking!!
May 24th, 2006 at 6:01 am
Kevin, you know I’m with you on all these issues, spending caps, right to life, gun rights, school choice, but if you keep taking on these liberals on every front, they’re going to tar and feather you. You’re going to get smeared by the RINO’s in not the Democrats. Shouldn’t you be careful and choose a small number of battles?
May 24th, 2006 at 6:01 am
Kevin, you know I’m with you on all these issues, spending caps, right to life, gun rights, school choice, but if you keep taking on these liberals on every front, they’re going to tar and feather you. You’re going to get smeared by the RINO’s in not the Democrats. Shouldn’t you be careful and choose a small number of battles?
May 24th, 2006 at 6:03 am
If that comes, then so be it. I’m only doing what I promised to do if elected. If this causes me to get un-elected, then I can live with that.
May 24th, 2006 at 6:03 am
If that comes, then so be it. I’m only doing what I promised to do if elected. If this causes me to get un-elected, then I can live with that.
May 25th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
You da man, Senator.
May 25th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
You da man, Senator.
June 1st, 2006 at 4:57 am
we appreciate you telling us what you are doing daily
keep up for the people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 1st, 2006 at 4:57 am
we appreciate you telling us what you are doing daily
keep up for the people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 1st, 2006 at 4:58 am
you will be another man on the list that went down to support change then the staus quo squeezed you out of office
June 1st, 2006 at 4:58 am
you will be another man on the list that went down to support change then the staus quo squeezed you out of office
June 13th, 2006 at 2:54 am
So he should just compromise his values and cave in? I certainly hope not! This is the problem in Government today. Kevin is a man of integrity - keep the faith (and lets have a “biskit”)
June 13th, 2006 at 2:54 am
So he should just compromise his values and cave in? I certainly hope not! This is the problem in Government today. Kevin is a man of integrity - keep the faith (and lets have a “biskit”)