Carter Nevill on Gigaland …varying the lead?

From: Cindy Burbank <cindy.burbank@comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 8:55 AM
To: Carter Nevill <cnevill@warrentonva.gov>
Cc: townmanager <townmanager@warrentonva.gov>; William Semple <wsemple@warrentonva.gov>; Michele O’Halloran <mohalloran@warrentonva.gov>; Roy Francis <rfrancis@warrentonva.gov>; Paul Mooney <pmooney@warrentonva.gov>; David McGuire <dmcguire@warrentonva.gov>; Eric Gagnon <egagnon@warrentonva.gov>; Stephen Clough <sclough@warrentonva.gov>; Larry Kovalik <lkovalik@warrentonva.gov>
Subject: Re: Gigaland Data Center Developer Vance Pitzer said he met with Carter Nevill….

Carter Nevill –

Your second message contradicts your first.  Your first message said your meeting with Vance Pitzer was a “PRIVATE meeting” that “had NOTHING to do with town business.” 

Your second message is all about Town business.  “I am open to sitting down with anyone who is interested in advancing the town’s fiscal stability and security”  etc, etc, etc. 

Pick one.  It can’t be both.  You (and Art Pitzer) may claim he met with you as a private citizen, but that’s nonsense.  As your second email demonstrates.  Vance didn’t pick your name randomly out of a list of Town residents.

As a recent Fauquier Times story clearly showed, Gigaland’s “Fauquier Forward” website and initiative is just a cover for building support for Gigaland.  Plain and simple.  Did you read that story?  And then you fell for Gigaland’s line that FF has nothing to do with Gigaland?  Read it again.  And read the other Fauquier Times stories on Gigaland’s deceptions and manipulations.   Gigaland has shown itself to be corrupt — hiring a company that generated fraudulent emails of support, fearmongering about arsenic in Remington water, and bribing people with $100 Amazon gift cards to get them to email messages of support for Gigaland to the BOS. 

Your willingness to meet with Gigaland, and tout their agenda, says a lot about you.

On 10/27/2025 8:09 PM EDT Carter Nevill <cnevill@warrentonva.gov> wrote:

Cindy, (council bcc’ed)

Let me be clear—I am open to sitting down with anyone who is interested in advancing the town’s fiscal stability and security. As you well know, our revenues are not keeping up with inflation and we are in desperate need of diversifying and strengthening our tax base. Especially in light of deferred maintenance and aging infrastructure too long ignored by previous councils. 

We need solutions. Protect Fauquier and Citizens for Fauquier County are to applauded for their wins. But they need to help find solutions for the investment they drive away. Our schools and public infrastructure are in desperate need of investment. The current status quo is unsustainable. 

Be a part of the solution.

I applaud Fauquier Forward for at least trying to inject solutions into the dialogue. Whether or not I agree with their principals is irrelevant. We need better discourse. We need dialogue. We need both sides equally represented. And if they can build an advocacy group to engage the status quo that has been the inheritance of CFFC and PF, then I think the community wins. Both sides at the table lead to better outcomes. 

My hope with Fauquier Forward is that they assemble a group of business and community leaders in the county that are willing to come to a table that has heretofore been dominated by one side. And I hope that the leaders of the group are diverse and that the gigaland people fade into the background. They are not to be trusted. But what they are trying to build is important and needed. These are voices that need to be heard. I am sure you would agree—the silent majority needs advocacy. On both sides. 

Warrenton and Fauquier have had a terrible reputation for business. I ran to try and reverse that. I am proud of my service and have no reason to apologize. I have been the most pro-Warrenton mayor in decades. Ask anyone. If a group wants to help advance that cause, then I as a citizen fully support it. 

And also, let me be very very clear—I was born here. My wife and I are business owners. I care as much about the character of this town than anyone. My future literally depends on it. This is my home. I want nothing but the best for it. And prosperity is key. For me. For you. And for all future residents. 

Peace,

Carter 

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