The Oakland eminent domain racket

Debra Saunders has more on the Oakland theft racket run by Jerry Brown:

For Jerry Brown's part, the mayor is not enjoying the media spotlight on Oakland's eminent-domain abuses. He sent me a DVD of blighted property seized by the city under eminent domain. It looked filthy, neglected, foul-smelling and downright hazardous to human health -- bully for Oakland for taking it.

On the phone yesterday, Brown noted that the residents at Fifth Avenue are tenants with no property rights and added, as the housing project improves the area, that Fifth Avenue's value will spike and "it would take a very monastic owner" to not sell and reap a fat profit.

There you have it, Jerry Brown doesn't believe that people have property rights.That's kind of funny coming from the mayor of city that has one of the most corrupt public education systems in the nation.