by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Disclosure: I do some outreach work on behalf of the Real Eminent Domain Reform Initiative

Next year there will be two eminent domain reform initiatives. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayer's Association, has their Hidden Agendas Scheme to end rent control and to make land use planning difficult, if not impossible. They submitted signatures a few days ago. Well, today the Real Eminent Domain Reform Initiative, the Homeowners Protection Act, has submitted their signatures, over a million strong. So, we are looking at a face-off on the June ballot.

While both of these initiatives claim to help property owners. One (the Real One) protects homeowners without ending important programs like rent control. One of them (The Fake One) redefines how government would work, or in actuality, not work. The Hidden Agendas Scheme creates a litany of collateral damage in our government and follows along with the HJTA historical policy of slash and burn politics.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

You gotta love the chutzpah of the term limit reform initiatives' opponents for trying to criticize the fundraising of the initiatives' backers. Yesterday they zipped out a press release decrying the contributions of health care groups to the reform campaign.<> <>But it was certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The "anti" campaign, led by US Term Limit, has refused to detail its contributions --  largely because they are from rich, out-of-state contributors. <> <>And then there's the California based spokesperson for the group. State Sen. Chuck Poochigian, the candidate for the last campaign he worked on, accepted more than $60K from health care interests like Pfizer, Bayer, and Johnson & Johnson. That was topped off by $5,000 from Blue Cross -- which is spending $2 million to defeat the health care reform effort being pushed by Democrats and Gov. Schwarzenegger. <> <>No wonder that newspapers ignored the charges.