Some in this online forum might want to see this modified version of 
something I'm circulating widely today:
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Governor McAuliffe is suddenly and radically transfiguring the Fort Monroe 
controversy. He’s defying BOTH political parties by defying moneyed 
interests. In a complete reversal from all of his predecessors of both 
parties, he's working to unify the split, fake, token national monument. 
(You can see the geography of the issue easily in a glance at 
http://www.fortmonroenationalpark.org/ .)

The  Newport News Daily Press attacked him in an editorial yesterday, but 
the million-member National Parks Conservation Association has publicly 
backed him, as has the Civil War Trust. (Presumably the National Trust for 
Historic Preservation  still sides, bizarrely, with the developers--despite 
its worthy campaign further up the James where the power company wants to 
install viewshed-demolishing transriver power towers.)

I'll be the guest on the John Fredericks radio talk show from 9 to 10 
tomorrow morning, Tuesday, Dec. 23, on WHKT AM 1650. John has a statewide 
audience, and though his local station transmits not very far, it's quite 
easy to listen via online streaming: 
http://tunein.com/radio/WHKT-1650-s29343

Please call in via 757 454-1650 or 888 480-5646. And please tell others via 
e-mail and especially via Facebook (where I posted a note like this one).

Steve Corneliussen
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Direct quotations from the governor:
* I have never felt that we have done what we need to do to take Fort Monroe 
to the level that it should be at. This could be not only one of Virginia's 
greatest treasures but one of America's greatest treasures.
* You don't cut up the Grand Canyon, you don't put things here and there.
* We shouldn't be cutting up Fort Monroe—it should be a continuous park, so 
people can enjoy it.
* I will not rest until we get it done at Fort Monroe. 

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