BIO
Jack Kain – a self-made successful businessman, owner of Jack Kain Ford, and a subdivision developer. He believes that a community must grow to thrive and that the “save the landers” are the “haves” who want to maintain their elite position and their unique quality of life by keeping out the “have nots.”
ON RIGHTS
"People have to have some place to live. It’s a free country, and if I go out here and buy a farm or if you go out here and buy a farm. If you want to cut it into and let your brother or friend have half of it to help you pay for the other half, I see nothing wrong in that. But the Save the Landers say that’s wrong, that you’re in the subdivision business, any time you divide it. And I don’t think you even need to go to the Court House for that, you just need to get an engineer to say hey, I want to cut off 25 or 30 acres here and sell it to my brother. And you can’t do that and you can’t do it here, and that’s not right. They’ve take away a lot of our constitutional rights, you can’t sell anything here now without having to go to planning and zoning and that’s wrong."
ON GROWTH
"I feel that as a business man in this community, as an employer, as a person who has brought industry into this community, I feel that it is a duty, a Christian duty, of any community to welcome people into the community and not to build an iron curtain around it. We have fine farms here that these people work on, we have factories here, clean factories, we have all kinds of businesses. But at night, most of the Save the Landers would like for these people to get in their cars and go home. And I just feel like we need to do a better job of being hospitable to these people, to just follow the Christian ethic and let’s open up Woodford county in that respect not to overgrow it, not to overdevelop it or anything of that nature, but just do what’s right."
ON CLASS
"I think what we have in Woodford County between the haves and the have nots...I feel like the Save the Lander issue against the rest of us has, it has somewhat of a class issue to it. I feel and a lot of people feel here in this community that they want to keep us at a certain level, that they don’t want us to rise above a certain level....they would like to keep it as some type of baronial system, a colony sort of thing. And they’ve done a pretty darn good job of doing that.”
If you agree with Jack, explore these links:
Alliance for America - We are the true conservationists
www.allianceforamerica.org/
American Association for Small Property Owners
www.smallpropertyowner.com/
CATO Institute
www.cato.org/
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
www.cato.org/
Center for Individual Freedom
www.cfif.org/
Defenders of Property Rights
www.yourpropertyrights.org/
The Federalist Society
www.fed-soc.org/
The Heritage Foundation
www.heritage.org/
Mountain States Legal Foundation
www.mountainstateslegal.org/
Oregonians in Action: An association of property owners working together to protect property rights in Oregon.
www.oia.org/
Pacific Legal Foundation: Rescuing Liberty from the grasp of government
www.pacificlegal.org/
Property Rights Congress of America, Inc.
www.freedom.org/prc/
