We have responded to various groups with the following,
“We’ve been made aware of a recent email campaign referencing parks4everyone.org that you sent to Arlington residents stating among other things,
“They have proposed to eliminate 11 sports fields in Arlington …”
THIS AND OTHER STATEMENTS ARE NOT TRUE. WE, AND NO ONE WE KNOW, HAS PROPOSED TO ELIMINATE 11 SPORTS FIELDS IN ARLINGTON.
Our Parks4everyone.org website contains a disclaimer about this email campaign across its webpages now to ensure that all site visitors learn more about that validity of the email campaign,
‘STOP!
If you’ve been directed here from a mass emailing saying,“[Parks4everyone] have proposed to eliminate 11 sports fields in Arlington…” Then you should know….
No one has asked that 11 fields be de-commissioned. You’ve been fed a false and misleading narrative.
If you can obtain a copy of the proposal apparently asking that the County Board eliminate 11 fields, we’d like to see it. Contact us if you have a copy. We don’t have one and have never seen it!
In fact, Parks4everyone is demanding transparency from Arlington County and to ensure that internal data has been made part of a public and independent process.
Please make sure to take a closer look at the actual content of this website and the petition.”
We wanted to bring this to your attention and urge that your group, and whoever else may have been the originator, take the necessary steps to correct the misinformation you sent out earlier, which urged Arlington residents to protest a non-existent proposal, and even suggested that proposal is actually being considered by County Board members.
Asking residents to take action based on misinformation is not only inconsiderate of their time and energy, it’s likely not going to produce the results the campaign was intended to have when residents find out that it the email campaign was based on misinformation.
Furthermore, the County Board members who have had their inboxes flooded with this odd messaging about a non-existent proposal to eliminate 11 fields may not find it amusing that it was all based on a false and misleading campaign ultimately directed at them.
Parks4everyone is advocating for transparency, accuracy and civil discourse, which is why we felt that you receive a head’s up on this issue and hopefully will take the appropriate actions to correct the false information.
The petition and the website links are located below for your reference.
Parks4everyone.org
— Parks4everyone.org “