Letter: Don’t stop protesting Mid-States Corridor

Usually, at this time of the year, writers do a recap of what happened in the past year. I’ll leave that to other writers and historians.

The Mid-States Corridor project is still alive and that should be our biggest concern as we start 2025. We must become louder and more visible. A lot of progress was made in that direction in 2024, especially after the November elections.

Governor-elect Braun will be making an appearance at the Calumet, in Jasper, on January 8, 2025. I don’t know if this is an open public affair; but, that should not keep those opposed to the Mid-States Corridor from making an appearance. More than likely the Mid-States Corridor cabal will be there. Mike Braun, Hank Menke, Mark Schroeder, Ken Mulzer, Jr., Shane Lindauer, Mark Messmer and others will probably be there to cheer Mike Braun’s ascension to the Governor’s mansion. This will be a great time to, once again, show opposition to Mid-States Corridor.

If this event is not open to the public, we the people should plant as many anti-Corridor yard signs as possible around and along the route to the Calumet. We should have farm tractors and other equipment with large anti-Corridor signs along the roads leading to the Calumet. We should line the roads with people waving even more signs. A good old fashion demonstration against the intrusive Corridor and it’s sponsors. The Mid-States Corridor project is a travesty and abuse of political power, the very things our founding fathers fought. We must stop this. Let’s start 2025 with a bang.

Yes, we have made progress this past year. We have kept the surveyors off our land. We have brought public awareness to levels never seen before. We have flooded the official Mid-States Corridor site with negative comments. We have sent hundreds of e-mails to our elected officials to stop the Corridor project. We have made the media our friends. We have even funded a alliance to help us fight the cabal in the courts.

Now is the time to show Mike Braun and his cohorts that just because he won an election he does not have the right to take our land for his ill-conceived Corridor. Let’s all stand together and keep saying “No”.

Jim Arvin
Rutherford Township
Martin County