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While Most Nutmeggers enjoyed a Federal Holiday to honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr, a man who had a dream of Equality over bureaucratic “equity”, Governor Ned Lamont directed the Office of Policy and Management to revert the land use values for farms and open spaces to their 2020 Rates averting tax increases for some farmers over 2300% (See previous article [ [link removed] ])
Let’s Be Clear - This Did Not Happen By Action
This reversal by Lamont was no accident. It was prompted due to a petition circulated that reached over 20,000 petitions in just a few days in a grassroots uprising of farmers, landowners, residents and neighbors standing up for the injustice to their friends and neighbors. This is a beginning - It is Not a victory lap.
IF YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED THE PETITION ? DO 3 Things
Step 1 - View the Save CT petition and sign it today: [ [link removed] ][link removed] [ [link removed] ]
Step 2 - Share the Save CT petition [link removed] [ [link removed] ]
Step 3 - Subscribe to this Substack and Share it -
What is Next? - A Farmer Forum at the Capitol Today (Tuesday - January 20) - Attend if You Can
Do Not Let Ned and Hartford Rewrite the Grassroots Narrative
It is really important that you stay on top of our elected officials, especially at the top of the ticket with Gov. Ned Lamont.
He will likely claim he listened and saved the farmers while it was his party that arrived at another detrimental piece of legislation that would have paved the way for forced sales, commercial farms, and conversion of farmland to 8-30g or other “affordable” housing wastelands.
Without sustained pressure, this pause becomes a pivot—and the bulldozers return.
A Warning from History (and Music)
If we let up now, Connecticut’s farmland future looks a lot like the warning sung decades ago by Big Yellow Taxi:
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what youve got til its gone
they paved paradise
and put up a parking lot
Do Not Rest on Your Laurels while we have made an impact to put Lamont and the one-party rule on the ropes (at least for a moment. Again - 3 Steps to Take Action and be informed and keep on Pressing:
Step 1 - View the Save CT petition and sign it today: [ [link removed] ][link removed] [ [link removed] ]
Step 2 - Share the Save CT petition [link removed] [ [link removed] ]
Step 3 - Subscribe to this Substack and Share it as it is informing many and can inform more -
The People Still Have the Power if you exercise it.
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