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companies should have a fair chance at getting public business, not just companies that donate to the re-election campaigns of entrenched politicians or hold cocktail parties at expensive restaurants in their honor." He believes term limits are a way to restore popular control over government. He wrote: "The longer politicians are in office, the more likely they are to rip us off for their own benefit – rewarding the donors who funded their campaigns and the special interests who keep them in power rather than the people they should be serving." He wrote that term limits force politicians "to represent the people instead of advancing their own careers." According to Rich, he and his groups have been successful in creating term limits for 15 state legislatures. He was agitated by plans of the
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been fortunate enough to have been successful in business, and I want to do something in this life to advance liberty." Rich said: "It's very difficult in many of these states, and very expensive, to get these measures on the ballot ... All I have done here, for the most part, is provide seed money. All of these initiatives are left up to the voters. That's what these people, who consider money evil, are not willing to address. It's the voters in these states who ultimately make the decisions."
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If every proposal that I have favored over the last 20 years got enacted, whether it's term limits or school choice or property rights or any area – I get no personal benefit out of it. I don't make a nickel. Here in South
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The pro-Prop. 90 campaign raised and spent about $ 2.4 million through the end of June. Of that total, $ 1.5 million came from Howie Rich of New York, who grew wealthy in real estate and owns apartments across the country. He funnels his political money through his Fund for
Democracy, which is based
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accused Rich and his organizations of "secretly providing major funding for ballot measures". Rich was accused of using his political advocacy as a means to "shield his portfolio from sticky-fingered bureaucrats" but he countered "It's a crock" and said "I own no real estate in any of the 12 states
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reward was offered for information about "unlawful conduct by business-oriented or conservative" nonprofit groups and promised to publicize the "'political and business relationships and corrupt activities' of donors to these causes." Later, perhaps as a response to this activity by the left, Rich
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wrote, "'Howie Rich from New York City' has become the Left's latest whipping boy." One pamphlet accused Rich of "dirty tactics, hidden money streams, and shadowy operatives." He's been accused of being a "special interest group" and of operating a "tangled extremist web." Rich responded: "I have
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and given to other owners. There was a public backlash. Rich helped engineer and encourage a number of ballot initiatives in state elections in 2006 to rein in such takings. Rich said "I believe that property rights in many respects have been taken away from many property owners." As a result, in
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movements in the 1990s. In an editorial, Rich posed the question: "Who's in charge – the people or politicians?" He criticized political connections between political contributors and government contractors and wrote: "When government contracts are being handed out, all qualified
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Howard Rich, a little-known wealthy guy who has quietly helped change government in dozens of states from an office in SoHo, mailed out scary letters last week to 11,000 people who were giving money to what he saw as radical left-wing causes – primarily electing
Democrats to the United States
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which prohibited cities from "using their condemnation powers to transfer property from one owner to the other." It generated significant controversy. Property rights referendums on 12 state ballots became the "biggest ballot issue" in 2006. By
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Takings Initiatives Accountability Project, run by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan investigative journalism group, found that in a set of western states, campaigns for these measures have been largely bankrolled by Howard Rich, a New York real estate
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suggested the referendums might "gut local and state abilities to enact or enforce virtually any regulations affecting private land use and development." Critics of the property rights proposals suggest the downside is "voting to destroy all land-use regulation."
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that "term limits have never been aimed at any one individual, but rather at an underlying culture of abuse that invariably tends to place the voracious appetites of government institutions over the best interests of the people they are there to serve."
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The most high profile Prop. 90 supporter is New York real estate investor Howie Rich, a
Libertarian linked with organizations that have given millions of dollars to as many as 19 initiative drives under way this year in a dozen
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have favored over the last 20 years got enacted, whether it's term limits or school choice or property rights or any area – I get no personal benefit out of it. I don't make a nickel. Here in
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which is headquartered in Palm Beach, Florida. He is a director of the Fund for Democracy which provides seed money to state initiative campaigns. Rich also financially supported the libertarian magazine
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Rich's two advocacy groups, the Fund for Democracy and Americans for Limited Government, alone have funneled about $ 4 million into the petition process of getting these initiatives onto state ballots.
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to donors of right-leaning organizations warned the donors about possible repercussions for contributing to right-wing organizations that might possibly be illegal; in another instance, a
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which ran editorials opposing the referendum. According to a second source, prices paid for signatures to petition the ballot initiatives ranged from $ 1 in
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but rather as "rolling back the government." Rich explained his mission was to "advance individual freedom and create an atmosphere where we restore the
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The Main benefactor of Proposition 90, wealthy New York real estate mogul Howie Rich, makes no secret of his desire to rein in the power of government.
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where we had property-rights initiatives on the ballot." Rich has been vocal about his financial support of libertarian-related causes. The
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laws since it would be required to compensate property owners for "any substantial economic loss." A reporter for
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