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Angie Craig: We don't speak to that. We speak to the issue at hand today: taking private farmland in municipalities and urban areas…

On the recordDecember 13, 2007
We don't speak to that. We speak to the issue at hand today: taking private farmland in municipalities and urban areas, counties and States, for the purpose of open land, and that is a post- Kelo phenomenon.
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing the implications of land use policies following the Kelo decision.

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