Every member of the state legislature should be paying careful attention to what happened in Sunset Hills yesterday:
In Sunset Hills, where fallout over a failed eminent domain project drew months of emotional protests, Mayor Jim Hobbs and four incumbent aldermen all lost their bids for re-election.
The state legislature is now considering a pathetically timid eminent domain bill. The latest version is even weaker than the original Hobbs bill, which MEDAC criticized last month.
Since the Kelo decision last summer, politicians who fail to stand up for property rights have been consistently losing at the polls. If our state legislators want to keep their jobs, perhaps they should be taking the lead in offering amendments to the Hobbs bill that will strengthen Missourians' property rights.
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