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Dirty Dan’ Logue Caught In Lies About Eminent Domain Seizure
Logue Still Refuses to Meet with or Apologize to Rice Family for Farm Seizure!
(Yuba County) – Dirty campaigner Dan Logue blatantly lied about key facts in his news release yesterday that attempted to refute the story of the Rice family, whose farm Logue seized through the use of Eminent Domain.
“Dan Logue has been running a nasty smear campaign for months in hopes that he can hide from his eminent domain abuses,” said Horne Spokesman Tim Clark. “It’s a typical tactic used by liberals who want to confuse voters and obscure their past. The fact is, Dan Logue spearheaded the drive to seize the Rice’s land, and he refused to negotiate with them. The Rice’s story is told in their own words, and Logue still refuses to listen to them.”
Here’s the background:
Fact: Dan Logue never even spoke to the Rice family before spearheading the August 7, 2007 eminent domain seizure of their land.
Fact: The Rice family had been desperately trying to negotiate with Logue and his cronies for 14 months before Dan Logue used eminent domain to take their family farm.
Fact: Logue refused to review the Rice’s evidence that the eminent domain seizure was not needed.
Fact: Contrary to Dan Logue’s assertion that the Rice family was paid $155,000, the Rice family has not accepted his monetary offer and there is NO agreement on price.
Fact: The Rice family was not a willing seller and was not happy about losing part of their family farm. Logue’s contention otherwise is a slap in the face to this family.
Fact: The California Reclamation Board, Department of Water Resources and US Army Corps of Engineers agreed with the Rice family that Dan Logue did not need to destroy their farm for public safety. Members of the State Reclamation board apologized personally to the Rice family for the way they were treated.
Fact: According to the Rice family: “We tried to meet with him and he would not get back to us. He was invited to be a party to the negotiations and he refused. We spent tens of thousands of dollars to force him and his group to change their plans and we won.
“Logue and his group tried to take so much of our property that we could not have continued to farm. We pushed back and forced them to take less of our farm, without any reduction in public safety. All we wanted was to continue farming, but if Dan Logue got his way in the beginning we would be out of business.
“He voted to take our farm before giving negotiating a chance, and the negotiations would never have occurred had I not spent tens of thousands of dollars to force him and his group to come to the table and find a fair plan.”
Fact: Logue claims to have heard Rice testimony at 6 meeting dates (12/21/07, 11/16/07, 10/19/07, 9/21/07, 9/11/07, and 8/17/07), but official meeting records of the State Board of Reclamation show Logue DID NOT attend 5 of the 6 meetings (12/21/07, 11/16/07, 10/19/07, 9/21/07, and 8/17/07) and his attendance during Rice’s presentation cannot be confirmed for the 6th meeting. At that meeting, Supervisor Dan Logue is not recorded as having asked any questions, having been asked any questions, nor making any statements on any issue.