Steve Greenhut, of the OC Register, has taken a lot of shots at Lynn Daucher, the GOP Assemblywoman running for the 34th Senate District, but yesterday he wrote a column about how she is supporting Prop. 90, which comes out against eminent domain abuse. Wow! This is big news and it will really help Daucher in her campaign against Democrat Lou Correa. Here is the Greenhut column in its entirety:
August 23, 2006
Kudos to Daucher, shame on Ackerman
From Steven Greenhut:
It’s no surprise that I haven’t been a big fan of Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher, the moderate Republican who is Sen. Dick Ackerman’s hand-picked choice to run for the 34th Senate District seat against moderate Democrat Lou Correa. In my view, Daucher has the wrong set of policies for that district, given that she has embraced a League of Cities type of agenda that doesn’t respect property rights and freedom. That said, Daucher deserves a major round of applause for signing on to Prop. 90, the state initiative that would ban eminent domain abuse. The Protect Our Homes initiative not only bans the transfer of property from one set of private owners (your neighborhood) to another set (Costco), it forces cities to pay compensation for some types of regulatory takings. At the Republican convention in Century City, the party endorsed the initiative, and almost every Republican legislator also has endorsed it.
Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman is one of only a handful of Republican legislators who have not endorsed Prop. 90. I caught up with Dick at the convention and asked him about it. He gave me a lame, League of Cities-esque excuse, claiming that the initiative would lead to frivolous lawsuits. Well, everything ends up in court, no doubt. But I see nothing frivolous about giving property owners a tool to stop government from abusing their rights. Typically, conservatives err on the side of giving individuals tools to protect themselves against government, and liberals are the ones most concerned about upholding the prerogatives of the state.
If Daucher was to get that seat in the 34th, she would turn into just what she is now, a Police and Fire hater! She Backed Arnold’s Props and for that I will never endorse her or trust her. All she wants is this seat, as soon as she gets it would take your mothers house out from under her feet!
too bad prop. 90 is funded by 2 out of state developers, and has more to do with zoning and allowing big box stores to pop up without community approval than it does with eminent domain.
another cheap rip off of the public, that we call a california proposition.
Daucher deserves a major round of applause? Greehut should know better, this is an election conversion and once she gets into office, is anyone really comfortable she’ll protect property rights? Hello art, where’s Republicans for Correa when you need em?
To 11:11pm anon–it’s too bad that we don’t have a “pure” anti-Kelo eminent domain proposition. But there is no one to blame except the Democrats in the legislature who a) folded under League of Cities pressure and blocked a “pure” anti-Kelo measure, favoring a half-assed measure that collapsed on its own and b) let a “pure” bi-partisan anti-Kelo intitiative die on the vine by not contributing to it.
So up steps some folks who want to get some relief from inverse condemnation and put it all on the ballot. Sound familiar? Try 1978, when the Dems fiddled while many middle income folks were losing their homes or finding it very difficult to pay their rapidly escalating property taxes. While the Dems snoozed, Howard Jarvis and the Apartment Owners Associaition came along and wrote Prop 13 that not only bailed out grandpa and grandma but gave the most relief to commercial interests that tend to keep their properties longer and thus benefited more from Prop 13. The Dems put up a Prop 13 lite which lost out in the vote.
So now history repeats itself.