Get Ready for the Long Haul & Pats on the Back When They Are Due

In a grassroots, long-haul fight like ours, it's important to remember to celebrate victories, lest we burn out and let the state just steamroll over our ashes.

And we've got some victories to celebrate!

Pat yourself on the back.  Just like a professional wrestler.

After our successful rally on the capitol, Scott Devico (yes, the same Scott Devico who falsely told Senator Guglielmo "We [the State Police's training complex] won't go where we're not wanted"), felt it necessary to do a little damage control in the form of new documents about the proposed training complex.

Those documents are listed HERE and HERE.  Please note that the highlighted points and commentary was done by Stephanie Summers of unWillington, Inc.

Also, please note a couple of things- and get ready to pat yourself on the back:

1. The helipad, which was never part of the official presentation, and only existed in off-the-record comments, has been addressed, and soundly removed.
This means that yes, there are plans for this site that exist beyond the official records, and that through our efforts, one of those plans have been scrapped.

2.  The specter of unnamed, mysterious "international" agencies using the proposed training complex has been dropped from the language.  
To be sure, we still have federal, state, and local agencies on the docket for off-hours (read: weekend) use of the facility, but at least we no longer have to wonder what international groups will be firing weapons one mile from our children's schools.

Add these two points to the rumors that the Environmental Impact Evaluation has been pushed back from an October release to a late winter 2016 release, due entirely to our pressure to fully catalog the unique flora and fauna of the Ruby Road site, and we've got cause to celebrate.  Our voice is being heard in Hartford.

However, we can't rest now.  Indeed, the two new documents from Devico contain a number of troubling aspects that we as a town, no--as a state--need to demand answers for.  So in the upcoming weeks, the Daily Actions will focus on getting the folks in Hartford to be true servants of the people, and give us answers for their actions.  Gird your loins, folks, we're in for a long, bumpy ride.

But for today, give yourself that pat on the back.