Carlsbad Current-Argus Senate votes to sue Texas over acreage
SANTA FE — The Senate voted Tuesday to sue Texas for the return of land in a move that the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Shannon Robinson, D-Albuquerque, likened to a “slap fight” between neighbors.
Robinson said there are 603,485 acres of land along the north-south boundary with Texas that was erroneously appropriated to Texas due to a surveyor’s error. The bill directs the attorney general to sue for the return of land, as well as compensation for mineral rights, oil and gas royalties, property taxes and grazing privileges that have been lost due to the mistake.
“The purpose of suing Texas, it’s like a slap fight with your neighbor — you don’t want to do a heck of a lot of damage, but we do want to wake them up to the fact that Texas has not always treated New Mexico well,” Robinson said. “We’ve kind of been treated like a stepchild.
“When we were trying to get into the union, they always demanded that we forsake this strip of land, and it ends up with Texas having this windfall. It’s all prime Permian Basin land.”
I tell you what, if New Mexico gets away with this, I say it's time to raise some money, hire a lawyer, and invoke the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Hey, Al, you ready to be a Cheesehead?
1 comment:
I got yer Northwest Ordinance right here! Actually, it's just an exerpt. It doesn't say anything about the borders being perpetual.
I like this though, "...no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed."
So can we hang the offenders?
---
I haven't been here since Friday?!
Well, time flies when you're having fun, eh?
Post a Comment