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August 15, 2007
TV LAND: real estate developers don't get no respect
This season, actor Matthew Modine joins the cast of the Showtime series, "Weeds," playing Sullivan Groff, a slimy real estate developer — more evidence that "real estate developers" have joined "lawyers" and "used-car salesmen" on the low end of the ethical scale.
Last season, in two separate episodes of CBS's crime drama "CSI Miami," the sexiest crime lab on TV solved the murders of a greedy real estate developer and a city councilman who was backing a plan to use eminent domain.
While the war in Iraq and the latest Bush administration woes continue to dominate the headlines, one story that is bubbling under is that most Americans think that eminent domain for private gain is unfair and that there is an unseemly relationship between real estate developers and our elected officals.
Posted by lumi at August 15, 2007 6:41 AM