VA: Free Lance-Star publishes CHP names/streets *again*

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From the VCDL, http://www2.vcdl.org/webapps/vcdl/vadetail.html?RECID=1652417

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Or a good subtitle would be, "Nancy S. Moore, Managing Editor of the
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, this is YOUR life!"

A few weeks ago I spoke to an editor at the Free Lance-Star and told
him that VCDL was going to use its own First Amendment rights to make
life miserable for the Free Lance-Star's staff in retaliation for
printing the names of concealed handgun permit holders and the names
of the permit holder's street.

We then stood down, hoping that the Free Lance-Star would simply drop
the practice.

Surely they would have enough commonsense to realize that printing
the names of CHP holders was a bad idea, endangering the lives of
good people, telling criminals where to get guns.

But commonsense is in short supply at the FLS as they have just
printed the names of new concealed handgun permit holders AGAIN! The
Free Lance-Star has repeatedly drawn first blood on this issue, and
we are fed up.

We are going to begin with the private life of Nancy S. Moore (whose
private information I expect will be fleshed out even more over the
next couple of weeks). Then we will work our way down the line to
the other editors and managers of the paper.

WE ARE READY TO PRESSURE THEIR KEY ADVERTISERS!

In tandem, we are now prepared to send a MASSIVE email blast from all
of you (ala the General Assembly type email arrangement) to the
Chairman and the President of a large Fredericksburg car dealership,
Rosner Stafford Toyota! There are almost 6,000 of you out there, so
this should be real interesting for Rosner. ;-)

As time progresses, we are going to repeat this process for every
major local business that advertises with either the Free Lance-Star
or their radio station, WFLS.

We will continue pressuring the FLS's advertisers, as well as
publishing more and more personal information about the FLS and
WFLS's management until FLS stops their practice of printing the
names and streets of permit holders.

If they stop, we stop.

FIRST SEND AN EMAIL TO ROSNER STAFFORD TOYOTA:

**Remember: WE ARE NOT BLAMING THE CAR DEALERSHIP AT ALL. We are
only asking for help and leadership!**

Click on the line below. You can edit the pre-written message or
just send it as is:

http://tinyurl.com/28gdhs

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AND NOW FOR NANCY - Publish far and wide!

[If you decide to contact Ms. Moore, be firm, but polite]

The Free Lance-Star has decided that they would like to continue with
what we at VCDL think is the very bad practice of publishing
concealed handgun permit holder's names and addresses in their paper.

Well, we don't want the Free Lance-Star to feel left out of the
sunshine that they so dearly want to shine on law-abiding citizens,
so we've decided to start letting the rays of public information
shine on the paper's staff.

Today we'll start with Nancy S. Moore, Managing Editor of the Free Lance Star.

Nancy lives at 314 Princess Anne St. in Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401.

Her home phone number is 540-373-2973.

Nancy's house was built in 1826 and is 2,583 square feet. The
foundation is masonry and the exterior walls are brick/stone.

Nancy's house has a total of six rooms including 2 bedrooms, two full
baths and three fireplaces.

Gee, Nancy. I hope you have inserts in those fireplaces, you wouldn't
want all the heat going out the chimneys!

There's a full basement with a total of 720 square feet and the
finished portion is 540 square feet which leaves 180 square feet
unfinished.

Maybe a closet could be added?

Outside of the fireplaces, the house is heated with natural gas and
hot water. Sewer is public underground. And, thankfully, Nancy's
house, which was built in 1826, has been upgraded with
air-conditioning for those hot summers in Fredericksburg.

On the financial side, for 1999 the total tax value was $214,000 and
2007 saw a very small increase to $217,300 (!).

That reflects a land value of $48,000 and an improvement value of $169,300.

We've added a picture of Nancy's home for those who might be curious:

http://www.vcdl.org/FLS/FLS_Nancys_House.jpg

This is just the start of our campaign of sunshine on the Free Lance
Star. I expect we'll have more interesting tidbits about Nancy,
soon.

In the meantime, we hope you've enjoyed lighting up Nancy's life as
much as we have!
 
I'm not certain that all of this information about Nancy's house is accurate. I think a group of people needs to swarm the place with cameras, metal detectors, and tape measures to verify all of the information which has been presented.
 
Has she made any unreported home improvements that the Building Inspector and County Assessor need to be informed about.

Does she ALWAYS pay her property taxes on time? And so forth.

She is a public figure. She wants others to adopt her opinions. Like a politician, the people need to KNOW everything about this "opinion leader."

She picked this fight (for money too), she can't complain. Time v. Sullivan (S. Ct. 1960?).
 
Since her address has been printed I wonder if she would like to be added to some mailing lists. She might be able to get enough junk mail to keep all those fireplaces going full time.
 
I called her last night, and suprise! she did not answer. Her machine picked up immediately. Left her a firm but polite message as suggested.

Will be interesting to see if she is still big on freedom of information:)
 
Is publishing CHP information rare or do many papers in many areas practice it?

Well, the Roanoke Times put together a searchable database on their website very recently. At the time, the records were "open" and available, so most likely no laws were broken.

In an OpEd "piece", a columnist likened the CHL list to a sex offenders list.

Roanoke Times pulled the database rather quickly. A lot of noise ensued, and there is now discussion in the VA legislature about restricting the information.... Some nonsense about "concealed" being "concealed"...:)

Moral of the story: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I wish NC had something like the VCDL.

Steve
 
It's going to cost her a lot more to get an unlisted address.

I will be in the Fredericksburg area in about 3 weeks for a few days. I am thinking about stopping by her house and seeing if she will invite me in for a cup of coffee and a fiendly chat. I'll even be nice enough to bring the danishes.:D
 
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Nancy S Moore must know that by playing the role of a good and active anti gunner she is letting everyone out there know that she most likely has now weapons in her home for family protection. This kind of information is just what some criminals need to help them make a decision about a home invasion. She should be ashamed of herself for endangering her family in that manor.
 
The Tax Assessors Office in Spotsylvania County, VA has apparently blocked all queries for "Princess Anne St".

http://www.spotsylvania.va.us

This makes it more difficult for me to answer a question that I have: how can ANY house NOT appreciate in value between 1999 and 2007 in today's real estate market?

I was especially interested to know how houses surrounding 314 Princess Anne St in Fredericsburg had fared in the recent run up in real estate values in this part of Virginia.

It now seems possible that what is good for me ( in the case of the managing editor of the FLS ) is not good for thee. Not only does the managing editor not want the rest of us to have guns, she apparently doesn't want to pay her fair share of taxes, either.
 
Probably a tax abatement program. You spend a certain percentage of your property's value renovating and they lock in the assessment for a set number of years.

John
 
Check with a realtor for comparable sales. Then compare taxable appraised value.

But letting advertisers know that pro-gun folks are customers is always a good thing. In the world of advertising, one polite snail-mail letter is taken to mean it parallels the opinion of 300 other people. But the key word is "polite". No "Dear Sir, You cur!" nonsense.

It's fair to point out to that local Toyota dealer that while you might buy a Toyota, it won't be from a dealer who advertises in that newspaper. :)

Art
 
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