What was once a hypothetical issue in Ventura County – the construction of a data center – is now a real possibility!
It started with Global Stack, a company that is targeting numerous CA fairgrounds, working with fair boards behind closed doors and with inappropriate pressure from a state official. Now their CEO, rebuffed by Ventura County’s Fair Board after the September 15th meeting, has implied he is looking to place his units elsewhere within our county.
We need to work together on this! Across partisan lines, across all our cities, and across the county!
Urgent Action! Call your Senators to vote NO on this dangerous crypto legislation, which may be as soon as this week!
Our president and his kids couldn’t even run a children’s charity without grifting the profits. With the weak language of the Clarity Act, their corruption has no limits. And we are running out of time to stop this!
(From the video) Our treasonous president sold out our country to the UAE! “It started out with this very corrupt deal that he did with the members of the royal family of the UAE. And it’s not just that he benefited, but he benefited at our expense. What the Trump administration did was transfer very sensitive technologies to the government of the UAE. These are technologies that we restricted. We did not want them to fall into the hands of very sensitive technologies to the government of the UAE.And essentially when a member of the royal family of the UAE invested two billion dollars into the Trump family crypto business, World Liberty Financial, after that $2 billion dollars, they lifted the restrictions on the transfer of technology, essentially trading our national security for the president’s personal profit.”
Action: Call our two senators and ask them to oppose the CLARITY Act. (Two short scripts to choose from!)
IT’S NOT JUST THIS PROJECT! We became involved with this specific mix-use project project proposed for a site at Wells Road and Darling in Saticoy just because we thought that the gas station and the housing looked too close together. However, none of us are experts.
But as we researched the issues, it became clear that our city is woefully out-of-date on the effects of these types of businesses on nearby sensitive uses, such as housing and schools. In fact, according to our city planners, they treat gas stations like any other storefront – like yogurt shops or art galleries. Not only does modern science show that they can poison people living close-by with benzene fumes, but they are also possible threats to our water supply, which would affect all of us.
NOTE: This is not a developer issue – he appears to be coloring within the lines he’s been given – but a city issue, where the people in charge of creating safe neighborhoods for our residents are not paying attention.
We are demanding that our city call an immediate moratorium on such projects at any stage of approval until qualified experts, using the most up-to-date data and standards, can ascertain that we are maintaining safe setbacks from homes and schools. Since earthquakes can cause dangerous leakage from gas stations, we are also demanding that no gas stations ever be placed in high hazard zones, in corrosive soil, in soil prone to liquifaction, or near local water sources. All these conditions occur at the Saticoy project site.
A group from Saticoy for Sensible Development has met with each city council member separately, along with City Manager and staff from Assemblymember Bennett’s office and now we need your voices as well. We’ve attached below some of the Powerpoint slides that we showed to our elected officials.
ACTION #1: Write to Ventura City Council members and communicate to them your thoughts about this proposal and all future developments involving gas stations and drive-thrus.
At minimum, ask for a moratorium on all new gas stations and drive-thrus until such time that the City of Ventura engages environmental experts, who, after studying the most up-to-date scientific findings, can inform our city of minimum safe setbacks for such projects from sensitive uses like homes and schools.
To all local organizations, community leaders, and concerned residents of Ventura: We need your immediate help to protect our civil liberties and privacy from unaccountable mass surveillance.
You don’t have to be a scientist or an expert of any kind to comment! You just need to know that that the politicization of science and research is a form of authoritarian censorship that will affect everyone’s lives for the worse, and be willing to speak up. Research on issues important to you or someone you love can be defunded if a researcher’s facebook page includes a comment that makes our Grifter-in-Chief sad. We give you a lot of resources to work with. Take a moment and join in this effort!
Or did a signature gatherer try to corner you? (They get $15 if you sign!) This letter is a fear-bomb, designed to make people believe that CA’s proposed 5% wealth tax, which only affects 200 CA billionaires, is actually coming after grandma’s pension!
Yeah. Ok, maybe. If grandma is also a friggin‘ BILLIONAIRE!
ACTION: How to respond to this ridiculous initiative?
The letter says to sign in two places on the back – once as a registered voter and once as the petition circulator.
Don’t do it, of course! Warn your friends, family and coworkers not to sign any petition for this stupid initiative either! Signature-gathers will be aggressive for this one. Did we say they get $15 for each signature? They are even paying people to sign, which is totally illegal.
Internet suggestions for dealing with the mailer so far:
We investigated the suggestion to attach it to something heavy. Don’t do this! It just stresses out the folks at the USPS!
If you already signed, you can get your signature removed! Here’s a nifty “Petition Signature Withdrawal Form” from our County Clerk-Recorder & Registrar of Voters Michelle Ascension!
Tell the County Supervisors: “NO more military equipment puchases on the Consent Calendar!”
According to AB-481, a CA law passed in 2021, law enforcement agencies who want to buy military equipment have to obtain approval from their applicable governing body in public meetings. The law was adopted into Ventura County Ordinance 4603. For today’s example, we’re talking about the Sheriff’s office request to buy a drone on the V.C. Board of Supervisors (BOS) March 3rd consent calendar.
Why do law enforcement agencies in CA have to ask permission to buy military-grade equipment? The reasons for this public approval process was important enough to be written into the law itself.
