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Outrage: California Stiffed Farmers Over Land Seized For High-Speed Rail Route

Jim_S

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Outrage: California Stiffed Farmers Over Land Seized For High-Speed Rail Route
ED MORRISSEYPosted at 8:01 pm on June 11, 2019

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06...ed-farmers-land-seized-high-speed-rail-route/

Good Lord. More than three years after the state of California seized land through eminent domain for its high-speed rail boondoggle, the state has yet to pay farmers expenses they owe them. And in some cases, they still owe them for the land as well — even while it remains questionable whether the state will ever get around to using it:

Up and down the San Joaquin Valley, farmers have similar stories. The state can take land with a so-called order of possession by the Superior Court while it haggles over the price.

But farmers often face out-of-pocket costs for lost production, road replacement, repositioning of irrigation systems and other expenses, which the state agrees to pay before the final settlement.

Those payments and even some payments for land have stretched out to three years. State officials have offered endless excuses for not paying, the farmers say.

Eminent domain, the legal process by which government takes private land, is complicated enough, particularly in California with a maze of agencies involved. But the rail authority’s constantly changing plans, thin state staff and reliance on outside attorneys have made it more difficult, some say.

We’re not talking about chicken feed, either. One farmer is waiting for California to fork over $1.9 million for the past three years. Even farmers who voluntarily sold land haven’t been paid for it. One tells the Los Angeles Times’ Ralph Vartabedian that he’s still waiting for his $630,000.

So awesome. California Democrats redefine First Amendment
Not everyone’s waiting for their money. Some are no longer in a position to collect it, as was the brother-in-law of the farmer waiting for his voluntary-sale proceeds:

Carter’s brother-in-law, Vince Carter, also could not collect money for farm property that the California High-Speed Rail Authority took, which gave him a “lot of frustration,” Ray Carter said. “He died of a heart attack. I think it played a role in what happened.”

Now that most of the project has been put off indefinitely, the land seizures could end up standing as silent — and barren — testimony to bureaucratic idiocy. The farmer wondered all along why the state didn’t just choose to run the high-speed rail parallel to Interstate 5, which already has a straight line through California’s interior and its own right of way, rather than destroy productive agricultural resources. The state has destroyed all that production and damaged other agricultural investments all while failing to admit that they can’t figure out how to make the project work at all.

And they can’t even figure out how to pay for the land they took, nor for the damage they did. Small wonder that one of the attorneys involved analogized the situation to one of the world’s most famous military disasters. “I would draw an analogy to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia,” Mark Wasser told Vartabedian. In a state with a healthy electorate, voters would hold the high-speed-rail-supporting politicians responsible for this disaster, but this project’s not the only thing in California that runs like Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.
 

FrancSevin

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California can't pay what they promised these farmers when the forcibly seized their productive farmland. But they can spend $100 million on gerrymandering via the census
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo..._million_to_maximize_census_cash_jackpot.html

Counting the illegals into the population gains House seat and electoral votes in WASHINGTON. First they screwed their farmers via water rights for the delta smelt fishery and now over the boondoggle known as the high speed rail. Brilliante!!!!
Why????

So they are systematically shutting down productive farmland which they also insist they need more migrants to come in and help work. Because you know, Californians don't want to do those jobs. How does that work?

This is what happens when people you elected to serve, think you made them the royal boss.

How does that work?

THE San Joaquim Valley is, or was, one of the most agriculturally productive areas in the world. Apparently they believe Ms. Alexandria-Cortez. …."Food comes from grocery stores...."
 

m1west

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I live in a rural area of Ca. I grew up in the mid west and moved here in 1980, then it was a wide open state. It started turning in the 90's and now un recognizable. Let this be a warning to the other states what can happen. Ca. is a microcosm of the rest of the country. The Dems/Commies got it done here. If you look at the demographics its the same, rural areas red and cities blue. With the sanctuary cities ,illegal voting and re districting and everything for free mentality we are in serious trouble here. Everyone in the cities are suffering from Stockholm syndrome, they keep voting the same way even though they are paying for it and have to live with it too. I have a business here and it would be impossible to regroup at my age. I will be retired in a few years with no debt. I will be OK. At some point I think they are so crazy they may try seizing assets in order to re distribute similar to what is happening in South Africa. I worry for my children and grand children.
 

FrancSevin

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I live in a rural area of Ca. I grew up in the mid west and moved here in 1980, then it was a wide open state. It started turning in the 90's and now un recognizable. Let this be a warning to the other states what can happen. Ca. is a microcosm of the rest of the country. The Dems/Commies got it done here. If you look at the demographics its the same, rural areas red and cities blue. With the sanctuary cities ,illegal voting and re districting and everything for free mentality we are in serious trouble here. Everyone in the cities are suffering from Stockholm syndrome, they keep voting the same way even though they are paying for it and have to live with it too. I have a business here and it would be impossible to regroup at my age. I will be retired in a few years with no debt. I will be OK. At some point I think they are so crazy they may try seizing assets in order to re distribute similar to what is happening in South Africa. I worry for my children and grand children.

Back in1980's California lead the country is styles, fads, and mood. Whatever was popular in California became so in the other lower 48.

That was fine when it was about burgers, architecture and fashion. But not politics. But the current fad of socialism that flourishes in the Golden state will be lethal to the freedoms enjoyed by the rest of us. Let us hope, for the sake of the nation, the infection stays in California.
 

rugerman

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California, the most car crazy state in the union, and their government wants to build a railroad to no where, at the expense of the nation in the form of less agriculture in a area known for its strong past efforts in that endeavor, and not for the benefit of the legal residents of the state but so that more illegals can be shipped in to work on the very farms that they are destroying. Yep that’s Democratic stupidly in action.
 

rugerman

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You also have to wonder why the liberals bitch that tariffs will cost American taxpayers in higher prices on agricultural goods, yet they are willing to screw up agriculture in the USA. Yep that makes perfect sense.
 
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