The Centreville Taxpayers Association is alleging opponents of proposed low-income housing are the victims of “dirty tricks.”
Now we have seen anonymous posting of letters on the web, attacking some of those citizens who have signed the petition. Without knowing the source of these anonymous attacks, they are clearly from those in support of the project, whether in government, development or simply other citizens. In one instance, an anonymous letter has been sent to the employer of a signer, suggesting the employer should know of the anti-development sentiments of his employee. The employer, as you may have guessed by now, is a firm specializing in commercial property development and ownership.
These anonymous writers have named and attacked one signer because he is currently unemployed, another who experienced financial difficulties, another for personal problems of another nature. One writer stated, “You are a bunch of snobs. Stop attacking Council members who actually try to make things better.”
Curious that CTA provides no evidence of these “anonymous attacks” on the web or provide the email sent to the employer of the petition signee. CTA only provides a response to the allegations.
Check the comments on the petition site http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/centreville_low_income_housing/signatures?page=1
Where are these anonymous attacks on petition signers? Were they removed? If so, why?
Speaking of the Citizens for Greater Centreville blog, that is a Dan Worth project.
You may remember Worth as the guy who impersonated a Centreville Town Council member to make her look bad and “drag her name through the mud.”
That these allegations—with no evidence provided—were made on Worth’s website should cast doubt on the veracity of such claims, and bears the mark of a half-assed false flag operation, which given Worth’s history and the less than honest track record of his compatriots is not beyond the realm of possibility.
Conspiracy Theorists Unite! Thank you for taking on this issue- my husband and I have some questions in our minds as this controversy continues.
ReplyDelete1. Any document with Dan Worth as signature #1 should be examined closely- I read that police report on your site. Scary.
2. The petition has no identifying name or group on it. After reading the latest posting from the Centreville Taxpayers Assn., it's pretty easy to believe that that group is behind the petition. If that's the case, there is now a registered non-profit performing political and lobbying work to town and county officials. The IRS generally finds that worth looking into, as does the state.
3. The Group's names. Isn't Ms. Brice on the Planning Commission? So she is a member of an organization coming out against a project that she will later review? I thought Centreville had an ethics commission. We hope so.
And Mr. Braden works in the same law firm as the County attorney, right? How does that work, when the county has given initial support to the project? And who is this person who works in development but is publicly against it- can you spell "hypocrite"?
4. Lawsuit: There are members of this group who are also parties in a lawsuit against the town. I'd hate to think that someone's personal and business problems are being used against the project.
We haven't formed an opinion yet on the housing project, but it's personally offensive to me to see the postings with shadowed references to minorities. Just because someone doesn't make a lot of money doesn't make them a bad member of a neighborhood or community. I've got family members of different races and nationalities, as does my wife.
Maybe some of your readers can answer my questions.
Great site. Find it funny that the antis are already attacking the residents of the prospective project before they have even started on the traditional targets:
ReplyDeleteRoads, schools, water pollution, lighting, safety, police, taxes, government waste, references to city newspaper stories, etc.
FUNNIER part is that most of the petition signatures are being done by people who live in developments that were highly controversial as they were being developed. Namely: Northbrook, Symphony Village and Providence Farm. (what isn't as widely known is that the houses and residents of those areas were looked down on and laughed at by some of the very people who are now heading the charge against this project- on the merits of: cheap houses, socially unacceptable people and a waste of town resources. (note: I didn't believe that then or now, but MANY did. And they sit on the town's review boards and reside on the main "historic" roads in town, as well as other locations too.)
Does this make turnabout fair play? Those that weren't wanted here then get here and try to keep others away? Think about it before you join in this fight.
when i first heard about the petition, i browsed thru the names and comments and a few comments were, basically, jabs at the folks "in charge" of the petition. a few hours later, those comments had been deleted...i posed a question about the deletion of said comments and was accused of being the writer of all of them - posted under several different names...i questioned:if someone has enough power over the petition to delete entries, wouldn't that person have access to the email adresses/names associated with the signatures? and wouldn't they have to have access to control double entries and signers who aren't from the county...
ReplyDeletehhhmmm
RCG: I agree, since I remember a few of the comments too. They may have been rude and unkind, but had some truth to them- at least the ones I read.
ReplyDeleteYou are telling me that the STREET of dirty tricks (S. Commerce) can't take some heat? If you put your name out there for all to see for a heated, class-driven petition, you should not be surprised. If you wanted safety, do it on paper. Weren't you around for the last local poll, where signers got threatened and boycotted? Who led that effort?
The discussion is pretty pointless now- the petition has clearly been manipulated and lost its credibility (at signature #1).
I'm more curious about the developer who is against development- who's that?
Rachel Goss: noticed some comments/signatures have been removed since earlier today - does ipetitions edit?
ReplyDeleteMay 4 at 10:10pm ·
The REAL friends of Queen Anne's County: Yes Rachel, the comments that you made under the handles "Observer," "Longtime Resident," "Native," "SymPHONY Village Resident" and "Northbrook Mom" were removed.
It's a petition, not a blog.
May 5 at 7:19am ·
Rachel Goss: i am sorry but you really have me mistaken for someone else -i do not use aliases - never have - never will - i noticed names of a few people i know - didn't know if ipetitions double-checked double entries
May 5 at 7:55am ·
The REAL friends of Queen Anne's County: Yes, the petition is checked for duplicate entries. We are also considering what to do about the anonymous entries by those that don't want their names reveled.
May 5 at 7:59am
How about this fuzzy logic from Dan Worth's "REAL friends of Queen Anne's County" blog?
ReplyDeleteToday's post summarized: We don't need workforce housing because there are no jobs. The jobs are on Kent Island and the western shore.
Really Dan? Well, then why did YOU move to Centreville, when you obviously don't work here? Have you ever thought that those who might rent might also want the same things you do- schools, sidewalks, safety, etc.?
Who hasn't rented at some point in their life, and who hasn't had an entry level job with low pay? Some can't get past that, especially in a county that has had very low commercial growth, i.e. jobs. Not everyone has a federal job with pension and credit union loan rates.
If this is the view of the REAL friends of QAC, the county doesn't need enemies.