From: alra@governance.net Subject: Like Kelo? You’ll Love VA Housing Authority Law HB 699 Land Rights Network American Land Rights Association PO Box 400 - Battle Ground, WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - FAX: 360-687-2973 Email: alra@landrights.org or alra@governance.net Web Address: http://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington, DC 20003 Like Kelo? You’ll Love VA Housing Authority Law HB 699 *****Urgent Action Required STOP The VA HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW HB 699 This new law reinforces the right to condemn your house by eminent domain if your house is obsolete or if your neighborhood is layed out in an irregular or obsolete pattern. Do you want to let the government and courts decide what is obsolete? This is Kelo Alive! It defines blight so loosely that anything goes. This law passed the VA House 100-0! It is up for final approval in the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology. Approval there leads to the last step in the Senate before it becomes law in Virginia. CALL the committee members (below) as soon as you read this. Time is running out. TELL them to kill The VA Housing Authorities Law HB699. Don't give the big developers a free hand to decide your home is obsolete for their purposes. Senate General Laws and Technology Committee Senator Walter A. Stosch, chairman (804) 698-7512, email: district12@sov.state.va.us Senator Charles J. Colgan (804) 698-7529, email: district29@sov.state.va.us Senator R. Edward Houck (804) 698-7517, email: district17@sov.state.va.us Senator Benjamin J. Lambert III (804) 698-7509, email: district09@sov.state.va.us Senator William C. Wampler, Jr. (804) 698-7540, email: district40@sov.state.va.us Senator Yvonne B. Miller (804) 698-7505, email: district05@sov.state.va.us Senator Charles R. Hawkins (804) 698-7519, email: district19@sov.state.va.us Senator Stephen H. Martin (804) 698-7511, email: district11@sov.state.va.us Senator Frank M. Ruff (804) 698-7515, email: district15@sov.state.va.us Senator Frank W. Wagner (804) 698-7507, email: district07@sov.state.va.us Senator Jay O'Brien (804) 698-7539, email: district39@sov.state.va.us Senator J. Brandon Bell, II (804) 698-7522, email: district22@sov.state.va.us Senator Jeannemarie D. Davis (804) 698-7534, email: district34@sov.state.va.us Senator Mamie Locke (804) 698-7502, email: district02@sov.state.va.us Senator Mark R. Herring (804) 698-7533, email: district33@sov.state.va.us Please forward this message as widely as possible. -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list; please visit http://governance.net and enter your email address.