Wala Blegay
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They say we got to research candidates because the hurt is too much.
Data centers bring jobs.
Data centers bring tax relief.
We've been played before.
China is making us mad at data centers.
What are you hearing?
Well, we're here.
So we'll put it like this.
This was before this election.
People found out in Prince George's County, they have fast-track data centers.
The prior administration had fast-track data centers.
The council done, the county executive.
When we came in, we didn't even know about the fast-tracking.
But what happened was all of a sudden the word got to the community that one of the data centers was at permitting.
And we found people called the office demanding, screaming.
We had an event where people took over.
About almost 1,000 people showed up screaming and yelling.
And they were like, why do we have this?
We were already looking into the issue.
And we had a qualified data center task force to look into the issue.