U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) has long used her experience growing up on a family farm to resonate with working Michiganders, but a report says she has overstated the size of her family farm.
“We grow soybeans and corn on about 300 acres. Right now we're down to a little less than 300 acres,” Slotkin said. He said.
but, New York Post Reportedthe land not exceeding 10 acres. post Slotkin noted that he also benefits from an agricultural tax exemption under the old rules, which has saved him about $2,700 in property taxes.
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This is despite the fact that the family stopped raising cattle on the land decades ago, the reason for the original exemption.
And despite her assertion that the land is planted with soybeans, there appears to be no evidence that any farming is taking place there.
The land itself is classified as vacant agricultural land, and aerial photographs available from land records show no evidence of agriculture taking place.
The Slotkin campaign continues to maintain that soybeans are grown on the Slotkin farm and that the Oakland County government approved the agricultural zoning.
“Rep. Slotkin's farm has been in her family for three generations since 1956. During her youth, the farm was a cattle ranch. Today, the land is used to grow soybeans and is currently planted,” Austin Cook, Slotkin's campaign spokesman, said in a statement.
Despite Slotkin's “questionable” status as a farmer, she continues to attack her Republican opponent, former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers.
In an attack ad against Rogers, rated “false” by PolitiFact, she said Rogers “left Michigan to make deals using his ties to Washington, D.C., to help Chinese tech companies gain access to the United States.”
Slotkin served at the CIA, the National Security Council and the State Department before running for Congress, returning to Michigan to run in 2017.
“She paid property taxes in D.C. for years. She didn't claim the exemption there. She got the exemption here because of the police, the firefighters and the schools,” Rogers said.
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