Volunteers needed to support a city council campaign to cancel the F-35 in South Burlington
The campaign offers readers of CancelF35.substack.com the chance to take their opposition to the F-35 a further step.
I’m running for city council to make South Burlington a safer, more affordable, and more inclusive community. I've lived here for 30 years. My daughters went to our city schools. We have severe issues facing many residents of our city, all of them made worse by the F-35 training flights here. I'm running to fight for those issues and give a voice to the voters.
In our city, affordable housing was demolished, kids were put at risk, and carbon emissions were immensely increased by the F-35. In addition, pristine open space is being lost, jobs and economy are hurt, and racial and class injustice is deepening, all because of the F-35.
I need your help to get elected to city council to pursue all paths to relocating the F-35 away from our densely populated area, to restore affordable housing to the 44 acres in the Chamberlin neighborhood where 200 homes were demolished because of military jet noise, and to make a safer environment for the 3,000 families suffering from the 115-decibel noise of the F-35.
This is a campaign to protect our children, our affordable homes, our diverse community, our open space, our economic development, and our planet from the 115-decibel and wildly greenhouse gas emitting F-35.
Here are some of the issues
Hurting children with the 115-decibel F-35 must stop now. No more blasting noise causing hearing damage and disrupting school classes.
Disproportionately impacting low income and minority with F-35 jets must stop now.
Businesses need to fill open jobs but that is impeded by a desperate lack of affordable quality housing.
Restoring affordable housing on 44 acres facing the airport near the city center where 200 homes were demolished depends exclusively on one thing: halting 115-decibel F-35 training at the airport.
Stopping sprawl and protecting our city’s open fields from development also requires halting the F-35 so that the 44 acres can be opened up and restored to affordable housing.
Protecting the existing 3,000 families from the intense noise that makes their homes unsuitable for residential use requires stopping the F-35.
Protecting our planet requires abolishing the F-35 because it burns 22 gallons every minute of flight.
Vermont and federal law and the military’s own regulations require halting F-35 training in any populated area, including in the Chamberlin neighborhood of South Burlington.
I will work diligently with you to stop the F-35 training in our city. This election campaign offers opportunity to build public awareness that so many issues are being sabotaged by the F-35 and that our city has the authority under federal and state laws to stop the F-35 training here. Every method of opposing the F-35 must be pursued, and this election is one of them. The stakes are too high to give up.
So I urge you to join this campaign.
Volunteer to elect Jimmy Leas for city council
Please send me an email at jimmy@jimmyleas.com or give me a call at 802 734-8811.
Write or call your public servants and demand an immediate halt to F-35 training in cities.
Governor Phil Scott 802-828-3333 Chief of Staff <Jason.Gibbs@vermont.gov>
Vermont National Guard's Complaint Line: 802-660-5379 (Note: the Vermont Guard told a reporter that it received over 1400 noise complaints. But the Guard won’t release what people said).
Submit your report & complaint to the still active Fall 2021-Continuing Now online F-35 Report & Complaint Form: https://tinyurl.com/5d89ckj9
See all the graphs and in-your-own words statements on the F-35 Spring-Summer 2021 Report & Complaint Form (513 responses): https://tinyurl.com/3svacfvx.
See links to the graphs and in-your-own words statements on all four versions of the F-35 Report & Complaint Form since Spring 2020, with a total of 1670 responses from 658 different people plus 77 more so far on the form that remains active now.
Senator Bernie Sanders 800-339-9834 <Senator@sanders.senate.gov>
Senator Peter Welch 888-605-7270 Chief of Staff <patrick.satalin@mail.house.gov>
Congressman Becca Balint
Burlington City Council <citycouncil@burlingtonvt.gov>
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger <mayor@burlingtonvt.gov>
Winooski Mayor Kristine Lott <klott@winooskivt.org>
S. Burlington City Council Chair Helen Riehle <hriehle@sburl.com>
Williston Selectboard Chair Terry Macaig <macaig@msn.com>
VT Senate President Philip Baruth <Philip.Baruth@uvm.edu>
VT House Speaker Jill Krowinski <jkrowinski@leg.state.vt.us>
Attorney General Charity Clark <Charity.Clark@vermont.gov>
States Attorney Sarah George <Sarah.fair.george@gmail.com>
Vermont’s Federal Prosecutor <usavt.contactus1@usdoj.gov>
Adjutant General Brig Gen Gregory C Knight <gregory.c.knight.mil@mail.mil>
Major J Scott Detweiler <john.s.detweiler.mil@mail.mil>
Wing Commander Col Dan Finnegan <daniel.finnegan@mail.mil>
Vermont National Guard Inspector General Lt. Col. Edward J Soychak <edward.soychak@us.af.mil>
US Air Force Inspector General Lt. Col. Pamela D. Koppelmann <pamela.d.koppelmann.mil@mail.mil>
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall <Frank.Kendall@us.af.mil>