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Fighting Back Against KELO In The Midwest

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Supreme Court

Missourians won’t stand for the decision and neither will their representatives.

SUNSET HILLS, Mo. — When David Wright retired from his factory job in 1997, he poured just about all his savings into a handsome brick house in the Sunset Manor subdivision here. “This was our dream,” said David’s wife, Lorraine. “We were set here for the rest of our lives.”

But the dream turned sour when the city council of this St. Louis suburb decided last year to bulldoze all 254 homes in Sunset Manor and turn the land over to a shopping-mall developer. “We cried and we prayed,” Lorraine Wright recalled. “And we put a lot of hope into the Supreme Court, because they were supposed to decide whether this kind of thing is legal.”

So the Wrights were crushed — at first — when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that the Constitution does not stop cities from seizing homes to make way for commercial development projects. “What we didn’t realize right away,” David Wright said, “was that the decision would be a positive development for those of us who don’t want to see people’s houses taken away.”

Here in Missouri and all over the country, the court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London has sparked a furious reaction, with politicians of both parties proposing new legislation that would sharply limit the kind of seizure the court’s decision validated.

To take away somebody’s home, in favor of land development is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG…and now we’re fighting back.

Stand your ground citizens. The nation is behind you.

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One Response to “Fighting Back Against KELO In The Midwest”

debsay Says:
September 8th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
I still want to see the homes of the idiots in the Supreme Court that thought this was ok to be taken from them…. and I can only hope that they are family homes that were in their familes for generations…..

I know, I’m being vindictive there, but nothing less that that should happen to them for this idiotic ruling!!!!

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