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The 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 has.

Back on December 7, 2009 (a day that will live in infamy?), the first blog post was posted at this “MoCo Smart Growth” blog. Since then, there have been seven posts, all railing against the same Germantown zoning issue. I believe these are the culprits. Now, the next question: Who are these people?

A new theory has come to the forefront: Anti-development activists are teaming up with labor unions (or leading them) in Germantown and other places to keep the non-union grocery store out. Potentially, the UFCW. This is a huge organization with, presumably, lots of proper political power behind it. Could an organization like this really drive such an awful campaign that’s started to get some real flak from others in the community? Even progressive, pro-union people? It appears so. Or at least some rural Maryland faction of it could. I consider myself progressive and pro-union, but this is just plain stupid if they’re involved.

I’d like to know if anything of substance actually happened at the March 16th hearing. From what I understand, the efforts were too little too late. I’ll be trying to confirm who’s behind all this and send updates as I have them. If anyone out there knows anything, please drop me a line or comment here. It appears the people behind this are too scared to actually show themselves.

UPDATE: I found their Twitter account. Wow. These guys are socially savvy with no common sense. And their tweets indicate a halfhearted attempt at whatever they’re trying to achieve – kinda like the rest of their efforts.