**ARLINGTON AND COWBOYS STOLE LAND TO BUILD STADIUM USING EMINENT DOMAIN**

Shameful misuse of Eminent Domain to steal land for the stadium where this weekend's Super Bowl will be played. Some land owners haven't seen a dime! Dallas Star Tribune won't even print the story of the victims.

[link to www.durangotexas.com]

Far less than 50% of the article here:

"It seems Arlington Mayor Cluck has come to realize that Arlington's outrageous misuse of eminent domain to acquire land for a football stadium may do harm to Arlington's reputation in other parts of the nation. At a Mayor's breakfast the issue of what to do with the closed Six Flags Mall was discussed. An Arlington native suggested to Mayor Cluck that eminent domain be used to condemn the mall. Mayor Cluck looked a bit stricken by the suggestion and declared something along the line of "No, we will not be using eminent domain anymore".



The Sunday October 14, 2007 edition of the Star-Telegram, in Section B, not the Front Page, made reference to lingering bitterness of victims of the Dallas Cowboys land grab. However, the Star-Telegram apparently did not feel these stories were sufficiently newsworthy for their print edition, one had to visit the Star-Telegram website to read the sad stories, such as Bob Magnus who said, "We got shafted. The council took our land, and I haven't seen a dime yet." You can read the Bob Magnus story and those of other victims by going here. For an interesting graphic showing where the victims homes were located in relation to the new stadium go here and you will see a Texas Star marking the spot of 5 victim's homes, including the last holdout, Evelyn Wray, one of the few who got justice. To the tune of $2.75 million (about 20% of Tony Romo's signing bonus)..



America's Team? When the Cowboy's owner demanded a new stadium to replace the existing one, that being a stadium that also is not in Dallas, but in Irving, Dallas could not come up with a plan to build a new stadium, even with a badly run-down Cotton Bowl blighting an other wise beautiful Fair Park, providing the perfect location and a potential huge boost to downtown Dallas. So with Dallas not wanting the Cowboys, the small town of Arlington voted to build the new stadium. So, when it comes to paying for and building a house for the Cowboys they are not only not America's Team, they are not North Texas's team, they are not the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplexes' team, they are not Dallas's team, they are Arlington's team.
D. S.
Fort Worth, Texas "