Comment: A great letter!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:45 AM EST
Bill Stanley, the Republican candidate running for state senator from this district, disclosed some of what is on the conservative Republican agenda for the future of our county and our country at a meeting of Republicans and members of the public in Chatham on Dec. 30.
One of his ideas is to attract high-tech companies to take advantage of the county's slowly expanding high-speed internet access.
Stanley said that Lexis-Nexis (an internet search engine that focuses on law and print media), now based in North Carolina, was looking to relocate.
Stanley said that one of this area's growth potential is to attract such industries and the synergy they will create, bringing in other businesses.
And he's right about that.
While our backward-looking Board of Supervisors and the Danville City Council are busy spending our tax money on failed industrial parks-so far the county has nine of them, with joint effort at the Berry Hill "mega park" poised to be become an open-pit uranium mining and milling site-the idea of attempting to attract high-tech industries that could locate anywhere in the county or the city where high-speed internet access is available, is a good one.
But Stanley refuses to disclose a position on uranium mining, and if Pittsylvania County is turned into a open-pit uranium mine, no clean industries like Lexis-Nexis would ever locate here.
Bill Stanley has some scary ideas, too.
Bill Stanley is an affable fellow, but his idea of the future -using children and teachers in our public school systems as handmaidens to build his brand of conservative Republican ideology - should be repugnant to any citizen who values the foundations of our democracy.
I cannot vote for Bill Stanley.
Barbara Hudson
Chatham
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