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Building permits, what a concept.LBN thread: A private group says it's started building its own border wall using millions donated in GoFundMe
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New Mexico Mayor Orders Group Building Border Wall On Private Land To Stop Construction. (Newsweek)
New Mexico mayor files cease-and-desist to group starting to build border wall (The Hill)
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Source: The Daily Beast
The $20 million crowdfunded project to do what Trump hasnt done hit, well, a wall.
Jordyn Rozensky,
Will Sommer
05.28.19 7:46 PM ET
SUNLAND PARK, New MexicoWe Build the Wall, a privately funded effort to build a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, was told to stop building on Tuesday.
The cease-and-desist order represents a new obstacle for the group and its founder, triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage. Kolfages crowdfunding effort became a cause célèbre on the right last December, when he rapidly raised $20 million on GoFundMe for the wall. So far they have built less than a half-mile of fence on the border.
Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea said at a press conference the city issued a cease-and-desist order, saying it is in violation of city ordinances. George Cudahy, whose company owns the land where the wall is being built, submitted an application for a building permit last week. Sunland Park officials declared the application incomplete, Perea said, because it lacked a site plan development and included contradictory information around the construction.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/brian-kolfage-we-build-the-wall-ordered-to-stop-construction
spanone
(135,958 posts)Hate filled racists.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)These types often have such notions.
Bengus81
(6,941 posts)And then he'll claim he needs a LearJet to inspect it from the air.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)After all they are patriots doing Gods will so trust them town officials
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,112 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)They get to build $20 million dollars worth of their wall so they can see how very little it buys.
underpants
(183,071 posts)When the Teabaggers got started and wanted to stage protests the Koch brothers (Crossroads?) both assisted with funding AND had offices of people to help with local paperwork etc.
After the hoax dust of the IRS scandal we found out that at least half (of just the organizations flagged by the BOLO list) didnt properly complete the required forms in some cases literally just stopping from look like tedium or frustration.
mwb970
(11,377 posts)Why am I not surprised?
dhill926
(16,393 posts)in the morning...