Recent Developments Highlight Relevance of WFB's Annual Meeting Focus

Pfizer Corporation announced today it is pulling out of New London, Connecticut.

Surprised?  So are the former residents of the Fort Trumbull neighborhood who had their homes taken from them for absolutely no good reason.

Arguing that the possibility of more tax revenue was a public interest or necessity, the City of New London, State of Connecticut, and New London Development Corporation conspired to take the property from Susette Kelo, Michael Cristofaro and their neighbors. The reason? Pfizer executives didn’t want their homes within view of their new research and development campus that was subsidized by state tax dollars.

The lots remain vacant.  They were never developed.

After fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Kelo, Cristofaro and the others were forced by government to abandon their homes.
Since they lost their case, Kelo v. City of New London, 43 states have reformed their eminent domain laws to protect their citizens against similar injustice.  Washington is NOT among those states.

Michael Cristofaro and nationally-known author Jeff Benedict will be keynote speakers at the Washington Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Kennewick November 18. The full program runs Nov. 17-19. 

To register and hear their first-hand account, go here.

The Annual Meeting will also feature a “breakout session” on eminent domain and discussion of anticipated legislation from the Attorney General.  See the full program for more details.