Comments on: The Mystery Letter

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:58:21 +0000

I feel left out, I didn’t get one :’(

By: ThayerAvenue.com » Germantown “Smart” Growth Letter Writers Unmasked?

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:37:20 +0000

[...] people who have been sending out the letters about the “big box” stores might have been unmasked. Well, at least another outlet for their useless, no-credit campaign [...]

By: ThayerAvenue.com » Just Fill Out the Damn Form

ThayerAvenue.com » Just Fill Out the Damn Form — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:42:57 +0000

[...] lot of other people have gotten that anti-big-box-store-Germantown-Citizens-for-Smart-Growth letter I highlighted this past weekend. It even reared its ugly head at this week’s ESSCA meeting. The origin is still a mystery, [...]

By: Thayer Avenue

Thayer Avenue — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:48:26 +0000

@Brains: I’ve been thinking about you as all the census talk started. I will definitely mention that.

By: LizBrent

LizBrent — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:24:08 +0000

Yes, I got it too. Thought it very strange and meant to do some more digging but haven’t. Besides, we need more women in curlers in downtown Silver Spring.

By: Big Bubba

Big Bubba — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:39:06 +0000

Mike March – I just wanted to let you know that it is not true that the voter list can be bought by anyone. To buy a list of voters you have to be buying it for political purposes. Though, it does sound like this time of mailing would fall under the reason of political purpose.

By: Brains from my father

Brains from my father — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:28:30 +0000

This is unrelated, but speaking of stuff in the mail, I just got my census form yesterday. How about a post encouraging folks on Thayer Avenue to fill out their census forms? I’m looking forward to running the numbers again for Thayer Avenue based on 2010 census and looking at how the block has changed from 2000 to 2010.

By: Kathy J

Kathy J — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:09:42 +0000

I got this too and also opened and tought “women in curlers”?

the anon nature is troubling and disgusting – it implies it is from council chair Nancy Floreen which is misleading and plain old confusing – just own it, whoever you are

btw Germantown HAS a wal-mart and several other big box stores – what is this whole point of this

the oddness of this makes me almost suspect it is CLEVER campaign to get support FOR big box stores in the county

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:56:05 +0000

No Montgomery County citizens group would miss a chance to point you to their web site.

Interestingly, if you search Google for “Germantown Residents for Smart Growth” (with quotes to indicate that you are looking for that specific phrase), Google yields just one result. ThayerAve! BTW, Bing yielded zero results. But I digress.

Broad mailings like this are very, very expensive. Which means real estate owners, or a large business, or a group of aligned businesses. Maybe big box stores or developers in Frederick County, or land owners adjacent to Germantown, etc…

This mailing ticked me off for the same reasons, but I don’t have a blog, so thanks for taking up the cause!

By: Thayer Avenue

Thayer Avenue — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:01:17 +0000

I think that only literature endorsing a specific candidate has to have the organization name on it.