More Kelo corruption

Thanks again, Justice Souter, for the Kelo ruling -- a gift that keeps on giving.  In Los Angeles:

A year after Los Angeles seized three acres from a private company to construct a public building, a city councilman wants to sell the land to another private firm for a commercial development.

Both companies are furniture manufacturers. But executives with the company that would buy the land have political connections and have made $17,600 in campaign contributions to key city leaders.

Critics of the proposal say it's wrong for the city to use its power of eminent domain to take property from one business for a public purpose and then sell it to another business.

"It strikes me as an extraordinarily blatant abuse of eminent domain," said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn.

Yeah, no s**t Sherlock.  The same kind of stuff is going on around here, too. 

Corruption -- it isn't just for Congress anymore.

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