Thanks to the hard work of volunteers throughout the county, and those of you who have already mailed in your recall petition signatures, here is this week’s count:
Ann Wheeler – 2,523 (last week 1,638)
Pete Candland – 1,320 (last week 1,063)
We want to remind everyone: If you send in your recall petition signature and ask a neighbor or two to sign as well, we will make it to the signature goal sooner (Candland: 2000 signatures; Wheeler: 12,000 signatures). Our elected leaders forget, they serve the people, not themselves.
Volunteers hail from diverse backgrounds, representing every political and ideological perspective, race, and religion. This effort is nonpartisan. We believe that good decision making has been tossed in the trash can for greed and power. While we have seen this sordid tale throughout history, it is so blatant here we simply could not stand idly by and allow this to happen in silence.
Just in case you have missed the chaos happening in Warrenton and Fauquier County, because of another Amazon Data Center “extension cord” threat, see below……… Apparently, the stench of corruption is running rampant these days. But unlike Chair Ann Wheeler and Pete Candland, these guys in Fauquier County are actually doing what should be done and are resigning.
“Fauquier County Board of Supervisors Chair Chris Granger plans to resign at the end of August, he announced Friday.”
“Granger’s resignation from the county board follows the disclosure on social media by his wife, Brandie Schaeffer, Warrenton’s former town manager, that she has been hired by Amazon Web Services. Schaeffer resigned as town manager July 12.”
“The couple’s resignations from their respective positions come several months after Amazon filed an application with the town for a special-use permit to build a data center on 33 acres at Blackwell Road and Lee Highway.”
Fauquier Now: Board Chair Chris Granger resigns due to concerns over potential conflict of interests
AND did you see???! The issues here are now making the news in global media outlets. Read the article from The Register below.
Starting out in London in 1994 as an occasional email newsletter, The Register began publishing online daily in 1998. Today we have journalists in America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Britain covering the worlds of enterprise technology, business software, and much more besides every working hour: the sun never sets on El Reg.
“From what we can tell, the project is made up of citizens with property along Pageland Lane who presumably want their land rezoned for technology use so it can be sold or leased to datacenter operators for millions of dollars. They stand to make a lot of money, if their request is accepted.”
“The group’s proposed amendment drew fire, though, from residents who are against the forming of more industrial corridors through their countryside, as well as the Virginia Department of Forestry, which said the proposed changes would lead to environmental ecosystem damage if approved.”
“A subsequent study by the National Parks Conservation Association concluded that water quality in the area would likely suffer, and the risk of flooding would increase due to wetland loss. Prince William Republicans also formally opposed the project.”
“Another reason for much of the discontent is that the PWDG’s 2,133-acre area lies outside of a zoning district specifically earmarked by county officials in 2016 for datacenter use, so chosen because infrastructure already in place made the locations ideal for datacenter-scale facilities.”
The Register: Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town
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