ACTION IS HERE FOR YOU

Over the last 27 years, ACTION has been at the forefront of the battle to protect your property rights. ACTION is an acronym for A Commitment To Insure Owners’ Needs.We have always been there for property owners. Whether it’s mobilizing the ACTION army to gather signatures for an initiative or to swamp the city council chambers with up to 300 members willing to speak out about the tyranny of rent control in order to affect a new ordinance designed to further erode your rights.

Since the passage of Vacancy Decontrol and the Costa-Hawkins Bill in Sacramento eleven years ago, the rent control issues have seemed to have slipped from the forefront. However, in the Kelo case the U.S. Supreme Court has authorized every local government to take away your property and give it to another without your consent. Last month Logan Clements spoke at our monthly meeting. Logan is from Southern California and not a landlord. However, being a free thinker and an advocate of private property rights he was incensed at the passage of the Kelo case. He posed the question, “what if we could take the private property of one the U.S. Supreme Court justices for a Public Use?” Logan Clements did not just sit there and ponder; he went into action and found that Supreme Court Justice David Souter had 8 acres of land in Weare, New Hampshire. So he gathered up enough signatures in that city to request the City Council to take David Souter’s property and give it to a private developer to build the Lost Liberty Hotel complete with a restaurant called the Just Desserts Café.

However, at the local town meeting, the other side had swamped the town council chambers in order to pass an ordinance which protected David Souter from a takings law that he had in fact authored. What a strange twist that the man that writes an opinion for the Kelo Case is the only individual in the country that is protected from his own takings law.

In another recent ACTION meeting, Santa Monica Police officers David Thomas & Steve Wong explained what they are doing to protect your property from the criminal element. They also took a number of questions that answered our members’ individual concerns about public safety and what to do about the homeless problem in Santa Monica. Afterwards most members indicated that they appreciated the opportunity to speak with two articulate members of Santa Monica’s finest.

One of our members once asked one of our past presidents, if being President of ACTION helped his business. His honest reply was that if he redirected the amount of time, energy and money that he spent on ACTION toward his own business he would have made twice as much money. ACTION president’s have always made a commitment to ACTION to protect your property rights even if it means making less money. ACTION truly appreciates your participation. Whether it’s writing a check, contributing, gathering signatures, speaking out at public hearings or attending our monthly meetings it all helps protect our collective property rights. I encourage everyone to stay involved and help us identify other areas in within our community to protect our rights. ACTION has always helped foster law suits to protect property rights. If you have particular questions, issues, problems or creative ideas please do not hesitate to call Gwen Wunder at the ACTION office or call me directly at 310-453-9656 or send me an email at carl@lambertinc.com.

I want you to know that ACTION is here for you.