I wonder if the BZA members and other Fauquier county officials living in Fauquier will be fined for NOT getting a special event permit for the b-day party for their son, daughter, wife, husband, friend?  What a joke! This Zoning Administrator needs to move along.

I wonder if the BZA members and other Fauquier county officials living in Fauquier will be fined for NOT getting a special event permit for the b-day party for their son, daughter, wife, husband, friend?  What a joke!

I have read article after article about this...and to be honest, I find myself in the middle of the mess. First, I want to say that I love Fauquier County because of the farms. Second, I know the Board of Supervisors and not one is a villain. We have had villains before, actually just idiotic good ol boys who let county government run amuck...there were back door deals and years of back slapping and yucking it up, county employees and administrators who moved tax payer dollars around like monopoly money...the list goes on. But, all this began to change when Holder Trumbo, Peter Schwartz, and Chris Granger were elected. I know Holder and Peter personally. Holder is a kind generous man. He comes from a good family, owns our grocery store. Peter does have a social conscience contrary to popular belief. He is actually a pretty good guy. He has a great family and he is sick to death of taxpayer money being flushed on outrageous administrators salaries and wasted on the pet projects of administrators inflated with power. This is the problem: really rich people live in Fauquier County and some are inflated with power. Around here, the person with the most land wins. They fancy themselves to be the Dukes and Dutchesses of Fauquier. On one hand, I am grateful that their money has kept the land in wide open spaces and on the other hand they are pains in the butt. They have a history of having the politicians in their pockets. They want a county free of development, tourists, shopping malls, and Walmarts. So do I. But, they also want to control the activities of their neighbors and will sink to some pretty getto behavior to do so. The behavior includes threatening county officials to write false reports, attempting to purchase mortgages of people they do not find desirable, making horrid claims about an individual's character. Basically, screaming like little babies when they don't get their way. Sadly, our supervisors fall into their trap because land is expensive in Fauquier. We depend on people with a lot of money to purchase large parcels to keep those bucolic views everyone keeps talking about. But, the people who buy them want the vistas without the actual farming ( other than expensive horses). I wish my supervisors would read this, but they probably won't. When you are elected into public office you represent all the people, not just the ones who have a lot of money. They are not being good public servants, in the case, to Martha Boneta. Martha is a good person. She has a nice farm. She rescues animals. Lies were spread about her and rather than paying a visit to Paris Farms to see how well cared for the animals are and look at her wonderful produce, they decided to believe lies told by three people. Two who own the house and property across the street and one who is just plain certifiable.