By Michael Bryan
I respect any politician, or either party, who speaks truth to power, especially when they are doing so to stand up for their community.
Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll is bound to get some flack for his recent comments at a Save the Scenic Santa Ritas meeting (hat tip to Sonoran Alliance). He was lamenting the fact that local newspapers are raking in cash for running Rosemont's propaganda ads, causing a financial conflict in covering fairly the issues involved in the controversial mine project. He said he wished that those news outlets would put stock in their community and "stop selling out to those pricks".
Hells to the yeah, Sugar Ray! This is one Republican who is not backing off what he believes because some Tea Party wackadoodles have gotten it in their heads that Ray's not conservative enough for them. Some think that Ray is insufficiently on board with the plan for some foreign corporation to bust in here, hose our views and our water supply, leave us with another toxic mess to clean up, and blow town with the profits.
Well, Ray's ::gasp:: representing the concerns and views of his constituents in the district on this matter. Rather than rolling over and showing belly to every multi-nat that rolls in, like every other Tea Party dupe is begging to do these days, Ray's actually fighting for the people he represents. I didn't even know that Republicans were still allowed to do that.
See Ray proving me wrong after the click...
Sugar Ray didn't sugar coat it...
Ray Carroll and Rod Pace of Rosemont will be on the Garrett Lewis program today (Wednesday) at 7:05 a.m. on 790am in southern Arizona. Garrett Lewis supports Ray Carroll's primary opponent, Sean Collins, and he supports the Rosemont Mine. Ray Carroll had the guts to call into the Garrett Lewis show yesterday morning to counter some of Garrett Lewis's "commentary" about Carroll. Most politicians don't fight back against ultra-conservative talk radio. Garrett Lewis, on the spur of the moment on-air, challenged Carroll to be on at the same time as Rod Pace. To his credit, Ray Carroll didn't blink an eye and said to just let him know the date and time.
Posted by: Debbie | July 25, 2012 at 05:13 AM
He said he wished that those news outlets would put stock in their community and "stop selling out to those pricks".
Few newspapers (even local ones) run on love and peppermint kisses. If they did they could refuse ads.
Do people still read local newspapers? (A: Yes, old people)
"Average Age of Newspaper Readers is 55"
http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/blog/1012051
That was 7 years ago. One can presume that age has crept up in the interim.
Posted by: Thane "Goldie" Eichenauer | July 26, 2012 at 03:47 AM