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.
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.
There are times when writing a blog concerning politics that the subject matter is so convoluted and the incident so involved that one particular subject will take several articles. The race concerning District 4 of the County Board of Supervisors is just such a subject. For today’s section we’re going to take up the subject concerning the local news and a particular Corporation, which locally goes by the name of Rosemont copper Corporation and Supervisor Ray Carroll and newcomer Sean Collins.
There are always two sides to a coin, two interpretations of any subject, two views on any information. So today, we restrict ourselves to a video that was furnished to Sean Collins which he has placed on his Facebook account. The video was furnished by Jeff Parker with the comment of, ” Thank you Sean, for standing up for the small business people in Pima County by throwing your hat in the ring. It seems we’re just too small for Mr. Carroll to concern himself with.” This video was produced during a “ROAST” of Rosemont Copper Corporation.
As a contributing factor to the description of Rosemont copper and the news agencies of Tucson, one must also take into account the incident where Rod Pace and Dan Ryan claimed that Rosemont copper Corporation was the number two tourist attraction in the state of Arizona. They bought television time to broadcast that exaggerated, ridiculous, asinine comment and as far as I can determine no legitimate news agency called them on the lie. This fact is easy to corroborate, I believe there still may be a copy of the video link on the Rosemont website. Of course after this article they may take it down. So when Supervisor Carroll talks about the news agencies selling out for the dollar then there appears to be a legitimate point. In the flyer for the event on May 21, 2010, there was a comment of “Poke Fun at Rosemont Copper’s Misleading Marketing” and I repeat “It was a roast.”
The individual who furnished the video, Jeff Parker, is that the same Jeff Parker that is , Director of Community and Environmental Affairs for BHP Billiton ? If so I wonder how he describes BHP as a “small company”? It is extremely difficult to find out information of who posts on Facebook, YouTube, or newspaper article comments. I am still striving to find out if Jeff Parker is the Jeff Parker of BHP Billiton. If so it would appear the copper companies are starting to cooperate in an attempt to intimidate our County Supervisor. For those who do not know BHP is an Australian company, and Rosemont copper Corporation is 100% owned by a Canadian company.
Stay tuned for the continuing saga of District 4, Arizona, Pima County and Rosemont Copper
January 14 was the last open meeting with the forest service concerning the draft EIS for the proposed open pit copper mine in the Coronado National Forest in the Santa Rita mountains. The number attending and participating in the discussion would be estimated to be between four and 500 people.
Rosemont supporters heckle Mr. Barber
Many of those in attendance supporting the Rosemont copper mine demonstrated a rudeness to a level unprecedented in any other meeting concerning the mine. It would have been bad enough if that rudeness had been directed to someone who deserved it but instead the rudeness was directed to Ron Barber, representative of our federal Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a gentleman who was became well-known for his attempts to foster civility in politics. January 15 he was honored for his family’s creation of the fund for Civility, Respect, and Understanding which made the occurrence of January 14 a perfect example of what he is fighting against.
To those who booed, harassed and heckled I give to you a platform for your shame and I leave to Mr. Barber your forgiveness because I will not. You were heckling not simply a member of the audience but you were heckling a representative of a federal congresswoman who sent him to read her statement as she was probably simply unable to. She and Mr. Barber were injured doing what few politicians today have the courage to do, to meet and interact with their constituents. For doing that they almost lost her lived. I am unable to understand or comprehend in any manner the level of stress that the Rosemont supporters placed on Mr. Barber with their heckling, screaming and total disrespect.
I listened as many of you, supporters of Rosemont, bragged on how many years you have lived in Arizona or how many generations of your forebears have lived in Arizona. For that I am ashamed that none of you had parents that to achieve decency, kindness and social graces. We may disagree but neither of us have the right to behave as you did Saturday.
To those of you who are interested I am attaching a 7 min. video, audio showing the disrespect. Perhaps many of you seeing yourself or listening to yourself as you screamed while Mr. Barber tried to deliver congresswoman Giffords statement can show it to your friends, neighbors and family and show them how proud they can be of your behavior, personality I found abusing, childish and totally past the limit.
I also believe, that like children, when you bring someone to a party and they misbehave you are responsible for their apology. I hold Rosemont copper to the same standards as I would hold a parent who does not control their children therefore it makes sense, at least to me, the Rosemont publicly apologize for those that they invited to attend.
