{"id":1357,"date":"2014-12-03T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2014-12-03T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:02:46","slug":"the-ongoing-saga-of-martha-boneta-and-her-fight-to-keep-her-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/12\/03\/the-ongoing-saga-of-martha-boneta-and-her-fight-to-keep-her-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing Saga of Martha Boneta and Her Fight to Keep Her Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2014\/07\/17\/va-farmer-says-green-group-urged-county-harass-zoning-citations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Signal<\/a> has the full story.<\/p>\n<p><em>A well-funded, politically influential environmental group based in Fauquier County, Va., stands accused of colluding with government officials and real estate moguls to force a local farmer into selling a highly coveted parcel of land.<\/p>\n<p>The Piedmont Environmental Council, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt group, and the husband-wife real estate team of Phillip and Patricia Thomas, who are members of the PEC, lobbied a zoning administrator and members of the elected county Board of Supervisors to issue zoning citations against the property, according to a lawsuit filed in the Fauquier County Circuit Court last September.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Vadum, a senior editor with the Capital Research Center, which studies funding of politically aligned non-profits, describes the PEC as a \u201cwell-funded activist group\u201d that is well-positioned to wage legal battles. Indeed, between 2008 and 2012, the PEC pulled in almost $26 million, according to its most recent IRS Form 990.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For all Daily Signal articles on the Boneta crisis, click <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/?s=boneta\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Signal has the full story. A well-funded, politically influential environmental group based in Fauquier County, Va., stands accused of colluding with government officials and real estate moguls to force a local farmer into selling a highly coveted parcel of land. The Piedmont Environmental Council, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt group, and the husband-wife real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-misc","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}