| Libertarian Party of NY -- Press Release -- Libertarians Condemn Pataki & Spitzer For Eminent Domain Reform Veto |
LIBERTARIANS CONDEMN PATAKI & SPITZER FOR EMINENT DOMAIN REFORM VETO
Bellport, NY 10/7/03: New York Libertarians condemn Governor Pataki and Attorney-General Spitzer for Pataki’s veto of a bill that would require governments condemning private property under eminent domain to advise the property-owners of their action and the hearing directly, rather than just relying on legal notices printed in newspapers. The bill passed both houses of New York’s legislature unanimously. The Libertarians urge the legislature to override Pataki’s veto. Pataki was advised by Spitzer’s office to veto the bill. Pataki claims that notifying property-owners would cost government too much money. New York’s Libertarians have led efforts in defense of property-owners, their tenants and taxpayers in eminent domain cases, according to former State Chair Richard Cooper, now Nassau County Chair.
Cooper declared that “The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution provides that ‘nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law’. How can there be due process of law if you do not know that your property is being threatened? We Libertarians have stood up to The New York Times plan to acquire land for a new headquarters by eminent domain which I called ‘Time$cam’. We stood up for the residents of City Park against Ikea and the City of New Rochelle’s mayor. We stood up for St. Luke’s Pentecostal Church versus the Town of North Hempstead where a zoning board member said ‘We have enough churches here in New Cassel.’ We stand up for the rights of owners, tenants and taxpayers, unlike Spitzer and Pataki” -30-
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