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TexasTowelie

(112,282 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:48 AM Sep 2018

Cruz allies take aim at O'Rourke over eminent domain, father-in-law

By Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune

Allies of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are targeting his Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke, in a new TV ad over his support on the El Paso City Council for a plan to redevelop downtown El Paso that raised the threat of eminent domain.

The plan never went that far but fueled a contentious chapter in El Paso politics starting over a decade ago. The new TV ad from the Club for Growth — a national conservative group that recently announced a seven-figure offensive in the race — portrays O’Rourke as a puppet of wealthy developers who pushed the project, including his father-in-law, Bill Sanders.

“El Paso’s rich and powerful stay that way by controlling politicians like Beto O’Rourke,” a narrator says in the 30-second spot. “As a councilman, Beto carried water for his wealthy father-in-law, the developer behind a downtown redevelopment scheme, pushing the city to bulldoze an historic Hispanic neighborhood using eminent domain."

The ad goes on to refer to eminent domain as a “government wrecking ball” and ends by tagging O’Rourke as “Beto the Bully.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/09/04/cruz-orourke-el-paso-eminent-domain/

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Cruz allies take aim at O'Rourke over eminent domain, father-in-law (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP

Club for growth, is that the same as hair club for men? Meadowoak Sep 2018 #1

You're close. TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #2

So, is Ted against eminent domain safeinOhio Sep 2018 #3

Trigg Crawford says Rowdyag Sep 2018 #4

You can smell the fear and desperation duforsure Sep 2018 #5

And yet the truth is that they never used eminent domain and .. ananda Sep 2018 #6

Meadowoak

(5,551 posts)

1. Club for growth, is that the same as hair club for men?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:03 AM

Sep 2018

TexasTowelie

(112,282 posts)

2. You're close.

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:10 AM

Sep 2018

It's the advocacy group for the under-endowed.

safeinOhio

(32,696 posts)

3. So, is Ted against eminent domain

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:01 AM

Sep 2018

for oil pipe lines too?

Rowdyag

(105 posts)

4. Trigg Crawford says

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 04:36 AM

Sep 2018

Not so much...Cruz supported the project by transCanada that took her land.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

5. You can smell the fear and desperation

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 06:59 AM

Sep 2018

Coming from Cruz now, and he should be scared, especially if he's exposed for being tied to russian money funneled with the NRA help for him from putin , or he has ties to Cambridge Analytica. Will we find out Cruz is another corrupt liar in the KGOP soon? No one lies that much that isn't corrupt.

ananda

(28,868 posts)

6. And yet the truth is that they never used eminent domain and ..

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 10:09 AM

Sep 2018

.. Beto voted to get rid of it ultimately.

"While eminent domain was never used in conjunction with the project, the specter of it was controversial from the start. O’Rourke was among those on the council who at least initially wanted to preserve the option of eminent domain as a last resort and, for example, helped defeat a June 2006 motion to rule it out. A month later, as public concerns were growing about the plan, the council — including O’Rourke — voted to ban the use of eminent domain during the first year of the project."

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