The ADEQ issued an air quality permit Rosemont copper company today. A 30 day time period now begins to file a written request for hearing or notice of appeal. The right for an appeal is granted under Arizona revised statute 41 – 1092 – 03 (B).
More later on the story.
We remember that famous line from the movie “Wizard of Oz”. What we haven’t done is try to understand what the allegory meant. While the Yellow Brick Road gang was being addressed by the Great And Powerful Wizard Of Oz, the dog Toto ran off to the side, pulled on the curtain, and showed that a normal-looking person was operating cranks and levers. For a short while, the normal-looking man kept yanking levers and cranking cranks, and said into the microphone “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
In other words, he wanted everyone to keep being impressed by the big flashy magic show, and ignore that they might have found out how the trick really works.
That smoke and mirrors magic show goes by many different names, the dog and pony show, the shell and the pea game, the three card trick and innumerable other variations for the illusionist to draw our attention aside while he manipulates the orchestrated trick.
We have a new contender on the scene vying for the title of “the Great Wizard”. The new contender is none other than the new entrants into the mining industry. Their stock in trade is not production or product of any tangible asset but more in the area of control of our National and State public lands. They have found levers and cranks and wheels to turn to produce the magic show and dazzle the American citizens, politicians and businessmen.
They throw money around for public relations fully understanding that it is seed money which could perhaps generate a bumper crop for them as individuals. They all have fancy titles and very large compensation packages which are financed primarily by selling stock to people who wish to make a quick killing. They know and understand that if they can get the permits required, the proposed mining claims become a marketable product. It’s marketable for one simple fact, the laws are being bent to get control of the public lands and if they get that control they have hit the jackpot. Under many circumstances they will walk away millionaires even if they do not get the permits. Rosemont Copper is an example of this, the top five executives of Rosemont copper have become multimillionaires simply from large compensation packages which are financed from the stock sales.
Example after example of the smoke and mirrors can be found in the statements of this new generation of copper companies and certain key phrases are utilized to pacify the American citizenry. Who has not heard the phrase “21st-century mine”? How about the phrase “we want to be good neighbors”? There is always the phrase “we will sue you” when they are caught with their fingers in the cookie jar.
Personally my favorite is when Dan Ryan and Rod Pace of Rosemont copper claimed to be:
“The Number Two Tourist Attraction in the State of Arizona”
I pay attention to the man behind the curtain and my advice would be for you to do the same, and by the way Rosemont, it’s the 21st century already by 13 years.
With a faith born from talking to my fellow citizens of Arizona, I believe that the election tomorrow will deliver a defeat to Rosemonts personal candidate (Sean Collins). The Board of Supervisors representative for district 4 (Ray Carroll) has shown his eloquence, knowledge and expertise to anyone who has taken the opportunity to either converse with him or study the facts concerning the accusations orchestrated and financed By Rosemont Copper and its public relations division.
Just a few highlights that I wish for you my neighbors to recall.
WHO CAN FORGET??
Number one
Dan Ryan and Rod pace claimed that the Rosemont tours were the number two tourist attraction in Arizona?
Number two
Randy Graf, a paid public relations consultant of Rosemont copper is actually the one running Sean Collins campaign.
Number three
Sean Collins made the claim, very public, that he was military hero of the year 2000, trying to make a civilian award appear to be an actual military award. Actually it was an award by the local Red Cross having nothing to do with the military.
Number four
Sean Collins is a one item candidate, that item is not jobs, but the item is to ensure Rosemont copper gets its permits.
Number five .
Sean Collins claims Association with the Cienega Rotary club,a group which he actually walked out on.
Number six .
Sean Collins claims Association with the Vail Community Action Board when actually he was ejected from the Association for non-attendance.
Number seven .
I have reports that show Sean Collins uses his position as architectural committee (the only member of the architectural committee) to favor his friends and punish his enemies by utilizing the power of the homeowners association.
Number eight
Supervisor Carroll has held his composure and shown his ability and his knowledge concerning the necessary requirements for the position.
For once, everyone needs to make a studied consideration concerning our District 4 Board of Supervisors representative. On one hand, we have supervisor Ray Carroll.
A man who cares for his constituents and is honest and forthcoming in his statements and on the other hand, we have a gentleman who has ran one of the dirtiest campaigns.
That I have ever seen in Arizona. I use that term “gentleman” in a rather sarcastic and loose example.
When I was a child I was told that with age would come wisdom. If that is true why is that I cannot understand the motives of our political groups today. We have this new organization called the “tea party”, specifically the Pima County Tea Party Patriots, which seems to have motives that I cannot understand. I have watched, recorded, analyzed and studied their methods and what appears to be their madness. I have been a registered Republican for 47 years and I now watch the party started by Abraham Lincoln tear itself apart by infighting.
I have watched, and for the most part, remained quiet, while they supported Jesse Kelly against a candidate whom he had no chance to beat. They not only did not support but actively campaigned against Jonathan Paton, a decent man whom I thought was the only candidate that could have won that election for the Republican Party. I believe Jonathan Paton will triumph in the new district and perhaps that was meant to be his karma.
I have watched as this tea party has moved my Republican Party so far to the right, that we now equal in some ways the radical concepts of the far left, which includes politicians such as Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and so many others.
This article is not concerning numbers or political concepts or whether anyone is right or wrong. What it does concern is what I feel in my heart and my soul concerning what is happening to my beloved country. I am watching powerless as we become so fragmented that I feel we are about to break.
If you are curious as to the reason that I’m writing to you like I would write to a long-lost uncle, it’s because of what I am watching in the upcoming primaries. I will give you one example of a concentrated, thoroughly planned and executed attack on a candidate that I have a great deal of respect for, and that is my representative to the Board of Supervisors District 4, “Ray Carroll.”
I am not sure how many of you have read the website for the “Pima County Tea Party Patriots”, but I just finished reading it. I saw where they thanked Mr. Garrett Lewis with this ringing endorsement of him and the radio station KNST. The following is the quote from their webpage:
The Pima County Tea Party Patriots would like to extend our Thanks to Garret Lewis and KNST radio for moderating our Pima County Supervisor District 1 & 4 Debates. His moderating skills allowed him to conduct the debate professionally with an added pinch of humor.
End of quote
I have watched Garrett Lewis as he has attacked time after time Supervisor Carroll. I have watched as he has edited the sound bites to manipulate them and to intensify the attack. You asked why I mention that here, it’s because I sent e-mails and communications to both Garrett Lewis and the management of KNST with a transcript of the editing and was completely ignored. He will admit, on the air, that his biggest concern is ratings. I would be happier if his biggest concern was the truth. Instead, Garrett Lewis has decided to support the candidate endorsed by Rosemont copper. One of his major attacks against Supervisor Carroll was that he used a “naughty word” while at a private roast, and supervisor Carroll made a comment on some of the false ads the media were allowing to be played. I listened to one of Lewis’s podcasts between he and his callers; they used the word “Crap” twice and the word “Hell” once on the public airwaves while they were denigrating Supervisor Carroll’s using of the word “Pricks” at a private function!
This message was brought to you by no one but myself, written by myself. I claim credit for all the mistakes by myself, but also claim credit for telling you, don’t turn into the competition or as the cartoon character “Pogo” once said; We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us.
The ending to this message is that the group “The Tea Party Patriots” used this comment while requesting donations at the August debate between Supervisor Carroll and opponent, Sean Collins:
COMMENT:
“So we will be needing to collect donations and also we have to pay for this venue and all the other things that go with it because we could not get a library large enough to hold us all. So if y’all could graciously help us out with donations, so we can take care of the Rangers at the end of the evening and also pay the “DAMN SCHOOL SYSTEM!”
END OF COMMENT
I promised myself I was going to try and stop posting large messages to you the public, so I will quit now.
On August 2, 2012 the Tucson tea party and KNST sponsored a debate between supervisor Ray Carroll of district 4 and the opponent. Sean Collins. It was an excellent opportunity to see the difference between supervisor Carroll, a man who is well-versed and knowledgeable in Pima County and Arizona politics and his opponent who is not knowledgeable in Pima County politics or needs.
His opponent, Sean Collins, appeared to be totally unprepared and ill-informed. Sean Collins appears to have one subject that he repeats consistently and thats his support of Rosemont Copper. In the background, you can usually find a gentleman by the name of Randy Graf, for those of you who don’t remember him he was the man who proposed Green Valley secede from Pima County. Now he works as a PR consultant and community interface for Rosemont Copper, he also appears to be the man who pulls the strings on Rosemonts puppet (Sean Collins).
Sean Collins waived a paper in the air, during one of his questions that he was to answer, the question was “Have you or would you ever support a Democratic candidate over a Repubblican candidate?” The question was asked by the host for the evening, talkshow host Garrett Lewis, who appears to have developed into an attack dog For Rosemont Copper. It is my contention that Sean Collins was given the questions in advance and prepped in advance. The preparation was not adequate concerning this question, as he answered the question in the negative he waved a paper in the air and said he had information concerning Supervisor Carroll supporting a man, whom he said was a Democrat, by the name of Salette Latas. I assume Randy Graf was one of the people who helped to prepare Sean Collins for the debate, he simply neglected to tell Sean Collins that Salette Latas was not a man but a woman.
I have refrained from making too large an issue of Mr. Collins defeat during the debate, but I am going to post, a few, articles concerning some of the questions. Ask yourself this question, why would Sean Collins happen to have a paper discussing the candidacy of Salette Latas in the 2007 Oro Valley city Council race unless he knew the questions in advance. I would say the odds are about the same as the sun and the moon colliding at three o’clock this afternoon or having an infrared camera posted at the one particular sign on Highway 83 that was reported stolen by the Collins campaign.
Take five minutes, watch the video and make your own decision. My decision is number one, he should have been better prepared or more knowledgeable, number two his handlers failed in his preparation. Salette Latas is a “Gold Star” Mother who lost her son in the war and asked Supervisor Carroll for his endorsement .
