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.

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.

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.