meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Rich Zeoli Show

Opening Monologue: Local Government Officials Attempt to Seize New Jersey Family Farm

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

News

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Rich Zeoli Show- Opening Monologue (06/18/2025): According to reports, Andy Henry—the owner of a family farm in Middlesex County—has rejected offers up to $30 million to sell the Cranbury, NJ farmland his great-grandfather purchased in 1850. However, Cranbury officials are now planning to seize the 21-acre family-owned farm via eminent domain with the intention of building affordable housing in its place. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Republican New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli have both spoken out against the seizure and offered support to the Henry family. In a post to X, Sec. Rollins wrote: “The Biden-style government takeover of our family farms is over.”

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.

0:05.4

Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today.

0:11.7

Call me at 856-252-0107. I want to talk about eminent domain and this issue in New Jersey with this farm that is now getting national

0:23.0

attention. And the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, is involved in this too. This comes

0:28.7

an anniversary of another Supreme Court decision called Kilo, where, you know, it's funny,

0:34.9

I mean, not funny. It's tragic what happened here.

0:44.9

The Supreme Court ruled that the government can use the power of eminent domain to take your property if they can find a business development use for it, blah, blah, blah, blah,

0:51.2

Kilo was one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever made.

0:55.1

And John Stossel pointing out that 20 years later, 20 years after Kilo, after it happened,

1:01.2

when the government seized her house, that project never happened.

1:07.0

So the ruling stands, the project never happened. And the ramifications of Kilo still are with us today, where the government can say, well, we're seizing your private property for economic use or in the case of what's happening in New Jersey now for affordable housing. And I'm using air quotes here for affordable housing. If you are watching right now,

1:28.1

you'll see air quotes. So this is what I'm talking about here. And so the good news is that both

1:34.9

Governor Jack, future Governor Jack Shidorelli, and Secretary Brooke Rollins, Secretary of

1:40.5

Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, are now reaching out to the farm to help them. We hope to have the family on the show.

1:45.6

We're working to get them on the show.

1:47.5

But it's Cranberry, New Jersey,

1:49.5

which someone calls Central Jersey,

1:51.4

except there's no such place.

1:52.8

So we're going to call it North Jersey.

1:55.5

But what happened recently with this story,

1:59.1

and it went viral,

2:00.1

and it was a couple weeks ago that it first

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.