In yet another "HOW stupid are they?" story from Yahoo News
Fake foreclosure notices panic some Detroit residents
By Liz Goodwin
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A conservative group is refusing to apologize for plastering Detroit homes with phony eviction notices earlier this week in a bid to get out their message of opposition to a proposed bridge project.
"It was meant to startle people," Americans for Prosperity state director Scott Hagerstrom told The Detroit Free Press."We really wanted people to take notice. This is the time that their opinions need to be heard. We wanted people to read it." One of the group's founders is billionaire Koch Industries executive vice President David Koch, and the organization has played a prominent role in organizing tea party and conservative events.
The flyers said "eviction notice" in big block letters and then warned residents that the state of Michigan could take their homes to make way for a new proposed bridge to Canada, the New International Trade Crossing bridge.
Some residents were panicked, though it's unclear how many actually believed the flyer. "I thought they were trying to kick us all out for nothing," resident Juan Ybarra told Fox Detroit. Republican donor Manuel (Matty) Moroun is lobbying against the proposed bridge because it would siphon traffic and tolls from his privately owned Ambassador bridge that traverses the same span between Detroit and Ontario. Moroun would like a second bridge--but one that he would own.
Moroun's company told the Free Press that it had nothing to do with the fake eviction notices, though Americans for Prosperity's Hagerstrom would not reveal if the group has received money from the bridge company to help fund its anti-public bridge campaign.
It's true that "several" residents of Detroit would lose their homes under eminent domain if the bridge does get built, according to MLive. They would be compensated 125 percent of the homes' value. Democratic State Senator Coleman Young II told Fox Detroit that the people whose homes would be seized if the proposal passes have been told already.
(Ambassador Bridge: Paul Sancya/AP)
So lets us get things straight... They are against a bridge, because it take funds away from a powerful Conservative donor, so they scare a bunch of people by posting fake eviction notices...
Makes perfect sense to me!!!
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I'm a resident of the Detroit area and have watched this unfold for years. First Manuel (Matty) Moroun started by blocking off part of a city owned park with "Homeland Security" signs in order to secure land for his own bridge, he's ignore judicial rulings that have gone against him and paid off any politician he can in order to get his way. Recently a high level employee spent the night in jail for ignoring yet another judge. Also, Our newly elected Governor, while getting nearly everything else wrong, did work a lucrative deal with Canada and the Federal Highway commission for funding the "Government bridge". All this against the background of the fact that the igovenment of Canada has told Moroun that he would NOT be allowed to construct any part of his bridge to Canada IN Canada.
So having lost in the courts and the legislature, he know turns his eye on the court of public opinion, running ads about how we don't need and can't afford a "government bridge". Seemly oblivious to the red flags that go up when the guy that wants to build his own bridge tells you how much of a money loser he thinks it is. He does seem to be having some success in the Tea Party circles with his anti-government message, but less so with the effort to allow HIM to build a "Money losing, unnecessary bridge"
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JME2 wrote:Eh, insane troll logic seems more and more to be the American Conservative American way.
Some of us think insane troll logic is well....insane troll logic.
Thank you, Xander.
In all seriousness, nothing these wackos do surprises me anymore and I'm sick of antics like this.
Hey, someone needed to state the obvious. Some European might read that and think all Americans are insane trolls. Some of us are no worse than their own conservative party(s). xD
