A  headline for an article in the August 5, 2012 Arizona daily Star read:
Political notebook: Supervisors candidate Collins captures sign thief on video

There are too many stories that do not have an ending, something that you can put your teeth into and say, “Yes that’s the end of the story.”  This time the ending is the signs were picked up by the highway maintenance from Nogales.

Excerpt from story August 5, 2012.
Collins sent out an email Friday with the subject line, “Smile, you’re on the Collins Camera” to help capture the sign-snatcher. The campaign posted the video, taken by a hidden camera set up by a campaign volunteer and authorized by the Collins campaign, on YouTube and asked for people with information to call the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Collins, a small-business owner trying to unseat Ray Carroll in Pima County Board of Supervisors District 4, is not taking this lightly. He has promised a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprit. He’s promising to prosecute the person to the “fullest extent the law allows.”
Excerpt ending

Included with this story is a link to the YOUTUBE Video of Sean Collins’ campaign posters at  mile marker 47.5 on Highway 83, which just happens to be the entrance to the Rosemont property and also includes photographs from Nogales . The Video shows  the pictures of the confiscated signs at the DOT yard in Nogales. Just click on the picture and it will open a new link.

The incident was used by Mr Collins in a negative campaign against supervisor Ray  Carroll and the Save the Scenic Santa Ritas . I think it would be gentlemanly if he were to call both organizations and apologize for his comments. Oh yes, Mr Collins  perhaps could tell  how someone could collect their $500 reward for finding his campaigns signs.

On Thursday,  August 2nd, the Tucson Tea Party and KNST held an event, a debate between Supervisor Ray Carroll and his opponent Sean Collins. The simple purpose of host and moderators is to insure civility, honesty and impartiality.  Sad, but most of those were NOT present under the supervision of Garret Lewis and KNST.

It was evident from the beginning the questions were tailored for Sean Collins and he had been prepped in advance. Sadly, or maybe not, even with the advantage of a sympathetic host and tailored questions he lost the debate soundly. Supervisor Carroll spoke from the heart and from his knowledge of the County Operations. Sean Collins spoke from a LOT of unfamiliar notes and it showed.

The evening started with an undertone of antagonism with Supervisor Carroll being harassed by Mr Lewis concerning a word he used during the (Private Roast) held by Save the Scenic Santa Rita’s, Randy Graf and the other pro Rosemont supporters placed it into  a video and then  flooded the area with it. NOW AS Paul Harvey used to say ,”The Rest of The Story” , during  the opening a representative of the Tea Party while asking for donations included a comment of  having to pay the “Damn School!” and that seemed rather hypocritical to me to be cursing the school which allowed you to have a meeting and at the same time have an Attack Dog in the form of a Talk Show Host attacking a Member of our Board of Supervisors.

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Following are excerpts from Lewis’ talk show where he edited the recordings to make Supervisor Carroll sound offensive. I have sent these to Mr. Lewis and to Management at KNST and none responded to dispute it. This is EXACTLY what his constituents have been telling Supervisor Carroll about Rosemont and the type of behavieur Supervisor Carroll was refering to when he mentioned the untrue “advertising”.

If you wish to see more read the older story where Rod Pace and Dan Ryan claimed Rosemont was the number two tourist attraction in Arizona.

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Garrett  He was getting a little testy towards the end of the interview.
Garrett  Play the soundbite of Ray from the 25th.
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Ray      You’re just doing your business trying to get your ratings up
Garrett  Is that bad?
Ray      No
Garrett  The way you say that in that tone. It sounds pretty bad
Ray      You can read it in my tone however you like
Garrett  That’s exactly how I take it
Garrett   Seems to me like you didn’t want newspapers and radio
stations like us that accepted advertising from Rosemont
copper and Save the scenic Santa Rita’s to actually use
that to pad our profits and pay people,
I mean that to me is anti-what you said is
anything but conservative.
Ray       Listen, listen you can bring it up
Garrett   It is
Ray       You can just remember that was a roast
Garrett   It wasn’t funny
Ray       I already said—
Ray       Hey, listen, some people thought your jokes about
Green Valley weren’t funny!
Garrett    No they do, they do
Ray        I’m trying to tell you ,your an entertainer, I’m a
politician but in the end,  If you want to just, you know,
continue to beat that dead horse,I understand

Garrett Lewis cut out the ending
to make it appear more contentious.

Ray  but at same time Rod and I have made amends over
what he’s done and what I’ve said
Lewiss Rod, you good with him, really quick, I am really behind.
Rod Pace You know, again I’m not going to go on that ,I’m not going        to bring   it up, I mean what Ray said and
I’m not going to hold it against Ray but it  probably
wasn’t the right choice  of words and I think Ray knows
that too.

Garret Lewis adds Section to make it appear
to be in original soundbite

Garrett States  

not exactly a dead horse, when you curse at a business
and you think that it’s bad, that,  you think ads should be banned,
It wasn’t a joke

The above is another example of how Rosemont is using their advertising dollars to try and influence our elections and an example of how the people will post anything for a dollar.

Mr. Lewis,

I don’t know and cannot speak for Green Valley but I find you and your show neither FUNNY

nor Informative. You tried to back shoot Supervisor Carroll but you missed.

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.

Hundreds of area residents opposed to the proposed Rosemont open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, Ariz., swarmed a public hearing Saturday held by the Coronado National Forest. Dozens of speakers outlined a litany of concerns with the project, including air and water pollution and other health hazards, depletion of groundwater supplies, negative economic impacts, traffic hazards and the destruction of thousands of acres of national forest that include a major wildlife movement corridor and habitat for several threatened and endangered species.

“Southern Arizona residents clearly don’t want this dangerous and polluting mine,” said Randy Serraglio, a conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. “The people living nearby, who would be most directly affected by the Rosemont mine, are vehemently opposed. They don’t believe Rosemont Copper’s empty promises and they certainly don’t want the massive pollution and destruction of public lands that are part of the deal.”

The Forest Service again displayed questionable judgment in how it’s conducting the public process.

“Last week, the Forest Service allowed the company’s supporters to show up early and stuff the comment box to ensure that their speakers monopolized the microphone,” said Serraglio. “This week, local residents showed up early with cards filled out so we’d have a chance to speak, but found the doors locked in our faces. The Coronado tried to pull the rug out from under us again by changing the rules.”

Regardless, only two of the first 30 speakers spoke in favor of the mine. The rest cited a host of concerns with the proposal, including: the massive volume of precious groundwater it would use, public health concerns over air and water pollution, unproven technology being touted by the company, and damage by large-truck traffic to a state-designated scenic highway that is the economic lifeblood of the Sonoita-Patagonia area near the mine.

Opponents also assailed the “draft environmental impact statement” as incomplete and badly flawed.

“The Forest Service’s draft analysis of this project downplays or ignores just about every concern about public health, the environment and wildlife,” said Serraglio. “But no matter how much lipstick the Forest Service and Rosemont Copper put on this project, it’s still a pig.”

Center for Biological Diversity news release

August 19, 2011 a letter was sent to the Hon. Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture with a carbon copy addressed to Tom Tidwell, chief of the United States forest service. The letter was prepared and signed by Sen. Jon Kyle, Sen. John McCain and Congressman Jeff Flake.

It seems rather unusual that a Congressman from Arizona congressional district 6 would sign the letter concerning a project that is not in his district. It also seems rather unusual that Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords was not furnished a copy of the letter. The proposed open pit copper mine is in Arizona congressional district 8, Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords district.

One of the comments in the letter, “In order to ensure that the Forest Service avoids any further delays in the EIS review process, we respectfully request you provide us with a clear and delineable schedule for the release of the draft EIS.”

Another comment in the letter, “although we understand the complexity of the project may have warranted revisions to your timetables, it is difficult to understand why the forest service continues to push back the release date of the draft EIS.”

I have contacted Sen. Kyle’s Phoenix and the Washington DC office, Sen. McCain’s Tucson and Washington DC office, Congressman Flake’s Phoenix and Washington DC office, Sec. Tom Vilsack of the United States Department of Agriculture Washington DC office and Tom Tidwell’s Washington DC office for the United States Forest Service.I have received no response or acknowledgment to my questions concerning the letter.

Perhaps Congressman Jeff Flake’s endorsement and cosigning of the letter was influenced by the $6000 donated to his campaign fund for the Senate race that came from two executive employees of Augusta resource. One example would be on May 13, 2011 chief executive officer Gilmore Clausen made two separate donations, each $2500, to the Jeff flake for Senate  Incorporated. That does raise a question concerning a foreign national donating money to a federal election. In addition to that $6000 an additional $3000 was donated by three employees of Rosemont Copper to the Jeff Flake for Senate Incorporated. that brought the total to $9000 for Jeff Flake’s campaign for Senate given to him by either a Rosemont copper or Augusta resource executive.