GOP congressman furious after Obama thwarts plan to sell sacred Apache land to foreign mining firm
Source: rawstory.com
GOP congressman furious after Obama thwarts plan to sell sacred Apache land to foreign mining firm
Bethania Palma Markus
11 Mar 2016 at 12:27 ET
..............Republican Congressman Paul Gosar had joined forces with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in an effort to sell off the ancestral Native American land, known as Oak Flat or Chichil Bildagoteel to the Apache community, to mining firm Resolution Copper, owned by an Australian-British corporation. According to the New York Times, it would have been the first time in history Native American lands would have been handed over to a foreign company by Congress.
The land was set to be handed over due to last-minute language added to a must-pass military spending bill. But according to the Weekly, the Obama administration prevented that from happening. The site has long been used for Apache coming-of-age ceremonies, particularly for girls.
This fraudulent action is the latest in a long list of egregious bureaucratic abuses of power by the Obama Administration. I will continue to fight this overreach, Gosar wrote in a statement.
Shame on the Park Service and Forest Service for ramming a bogus historic place listing down the throats of Arizonans, Gosar continued. Clearly, the Obama Administration cares more about pandering to extremist environmental groups and a D.C. lobbyist from the Clinton Administration than following the law and listening to the American public.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/gop-congressman-furious-after-obama-thwarts-plan-to-sell-sacred-apache-land-to-foreign-mining-firm/
The local Native Americans have been occupying the site per the article
I am so glad Pres. Obama is our President
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Republican furious after Obama kills plot to sell sacred Apache site to foreign mining firm http://ow.ly/Zm0sT
WhiteTara
(29,713 posts)He did the right thing didn't he? Republicans think they can do whatever they want. The land belongs to the Indians right? And they should have it, enough has been taken away from them already. It's like that Snyder has people drinking and using bad water, even paying for it. What is happening in America? The Republican's are running rough-shod over its own citizen's and getting away with it.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)That's just it, Obama was listening to the American public. When republicans don't have their way, they almost always say that it's what the American public wants. Bullshit! Republicans don't care about the American public, they just use us for political expediency.
Gosar is an Asshole!
Welcome to DU, Nolacs22.
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)a kennedy
(29,660 posts)DEMOCRATIC U S Rep Ann Kirkpatrick??? What the H*ll is this??? A Democrat also signed on to this???
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)riversedge
(70,218 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Go ask the Native Americans - members of the Apache Nation....I am SOOOOOO happy we elected President Obama...
visit - http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2016/03/10/congressman-gosar-claims-oak-flat-has-never-been-a-sacred-site-wants-to-kick-out-apache-stronghold-protesters -
A great read for understanding what the Apache Nation has been fighting....
Gosar McCain Kirkpatrick and oh, jeff flake have had resolute mining filling their pockets for years....yes, anne Kirkpatrick a DEM...too
Let Gosar stew...
C Moon
(12,213 posts)ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)What the Hell? Prior to this i was excited about her running against McCain!
rurallib
(62,415 posts)O, sorry, I mean "donated to their campaigns"
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)someones pie in the sky "Escalade" project..sung to the tune of "desparately needing jobs" - this Escalade Project would build a TRAM down the side of the wall of the GC at the point of confluence...and build resort etc..at bottom...never mind where their supposed to get the water.....
for infrastructure....
Follow the money at every turn...another good read.....
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/politics/grand-canyon-development-project-rejected-by-federal-government/article/459703
Hekate
(90,683 posts)dbackjon
(6,578 posts)This was on Federal (non-reservation) land
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)and the new Navajo Nation President Begay was against it!!!
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)stop the removal of wild horses from the Salt River last year - for now - they have been grazing for over 400 years..
AZ Legislature forging ahead to pass a bill protecting horses...unusual as that might seem....AZ legs are nutty...but good on them....
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Hekate
(90,683 posts)Thank you, Sir.
ffr
(22,670 posts)They are not the same. Republicans are evil twisted shills that will do anything for a buck, including screwing over the same people who voted for them.
It also emphasizes the payback for all those who stuck it out in order to vote for the right candidate, which just so happens, is the democrat, president Barack Obama.
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Sad -- I remember the days when a GOP senator with seniority wouldn't give the time of day to a congressman of his own party, and never with a Democratic congresswoman. Is McGramps running low on campaign money? Good catch Arizona DEMS and President Obama.
HeartoftheMidwest
(309 posts)From the Tuscon Weekly article:
"In December 2014, Gosar, Kirkpatrick, and U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake added a last-minute amendment to a must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, giving away Oak Flat to Resolution Copper."
Let's not forget Senator Jeff Flake.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)Kirkpatrick was born and raised on an Apache Indian reservation near McNary, Arizona, though she is not of Native American descent; her mother was a teacher and her father a general store owner.
She can't say she didn't know how important that piece of land was to the Apache Indians!!!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)McCain and Kirkpatrick and flake some cheese to go with their whine....tell McCain to get OFF Oak Flat...
Superior, as it is right now, a hole in the ground from mining past..you go further south to Hayden AZ- Hayden is a town in Gila in the State of Arizona Hayden's current mayor is Bob Smith. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 662. The economic base of Hayden's economy is the Asarco Hayden Smelter.
On the road from Superior to Hayden, you will see more another huge hole in the ground..Another ghost town...the only reason I know this, I would travel with hubby when he was working for a company that sells, maintains and repairs mailing equipment....after we moved to AZ twenty years ago....
..and to think copper demand is,
Wait for it - Just days before Freeport-McMoRan announced the suspension of mining in Miami, Ariz., in the wake of declining demand for copper, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took to Facebook to counter arguments by the San Carlos Apache Tribe in opposition to a new copper mine proposed near Superior.
Guess he thought he would lose a huge payday....slime....
tblue37
(65,343 posts)isn't hurting for spending money, but for such greed freaks, no amount is ever enough.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)How much does a greedy slime need...
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Clearly, the Obama Administration cares more about pandering to extremist environmental groups and a D.C. lobbyist from the Clinton Administration than following the law and listening to the American public.
Oh, and I wonder what D.C. lobbyist bought Gosar and told him what he needed to say?
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)Let them keep the land we majorly stole from them. Can you PLEASE stop lining your fucking pockets with money for once?
"MEH BUT YOU'RE BEING PC!! PEOPLE NEED JOBS AND MONEY"
No, I'm fucking being decent. I'm having respect for a people that were here before us. It's not called political correctness, it's called having morals and being polite.
FighttheFuture
(1,313 posts)Shit like that needs to be purged from the party.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)from the bottom of my heart!
Thank you, riversedge, for posting such incredibly good news! I'm just overjoyed
blondie58
(2,570 posts)The office in Democratic hands! That and Obamacare.
drm604
(16,230 posts)If the Republican Party, in its current state, were to gain control of the federal government, they will likely do irreparable damage; selling off things that can never be gotten back, and permanently damaging or developing important wilderness areas. And they'd no doubt hinder or stop progress on stopping global warming.
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)Recd too!
Gumboot
(531 posts)Beautiful American land has been saved for all of us. It's just common sense, really.
Hoping our two nominee contenders will applaud & highlight this ASAP.
I'm trying to remember the last president who did anything for Native Americans.
Never heard of Ann Kirkpatrick before, but I hope she gets primaried and run out of office this time around. Truly disgraceful. I'd happily vote for a Native American running against her.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)"Republican Congressman Paul Gosar had joined forces with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in an effort to sell off the ancestral Native American land, known as Oak Flat or Chichil Bildagoteel to the Apache community, to mining firm Resolution Copper, owned by an Australian-British corporation. According to the New York Times, it would have been the first time in history Native American lands would have been handed over to a foreign company by Congress."
Your ilk Congressman and Congresswoman are a absolute disgrace-----------------you like bribe money-plain and simple
Ann Kirkpatrick---------------------DINO
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2016&cid=N00029260&type=I
Paul Gosar
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2016&cid=N00030771&type=I
Lets sell off your christain churches -------------------and see how you feel
Honk--------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Gov. Lepetomane: Yes, yes. What the hell is it?
Lamarr: Well, under the provisions of this bill, we would snatch 200,000 acres of Indian territory which we have deemed unsafe for their use at this time. They're such children.
Gov. Lepetomane: 200,000 acres? 200,000 acres?! What'll it cost, man? What'll it cost?
Lamarr: Ah! A box...of these. Gov. Lepetomane: Are you crazy? They'll never go for it. And then again, they might. they love toys.
christx30
(6,241 posts)I expected it to end with "to conclude the press conference, Gosar kicked a puppy."
Seriously? Selling off Native American land? To a mining company, no less? Not only is it wrong, but it's such a cliched move.
Congrats, Gosar. You're officially a villain from an 80's kids movie.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)I am so glad Barack Obama is in the White House! He is well-named (Barack means blessing). You guys didn't see me crying at Obama's first inauguration, or me shrieking like a banshee at Obama's second inauguration.
The claims of Native Americans to their Sacred Lands are NOT bogus! Some white people need to get over themselves and learn to respect others!
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)Very very good news
MBS
(9,688 posts)Easily the best news I've read all day.
Thanks so much for letting us know.
ebayfool
(3,411 posts)snip/
The swap which will trade 5,300 acres of private parcels owned by the company to the Forest Service and give 2,400 acres including Oak Flat to Resolution so that it can mine the land without oversight had been attempted multiple times by Arizona members of Congress on behalf of the company. (Among those involved was Rick Renzi, a former Republican representative who was sent to federal prison in February for three years for corruption related to earlier versions of the land-transfer deal.) It always failed in Congress because of lack of support. But this time was different. This time, the giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed public scrutiny.
Its worth noting that Rio Tinto affiliates have been McCain campaign contributors, and thatMr. Flake, before he made it to Congress, was a paid lobbyist for Rio Tinto Rössing Uranium (a huge uranium mine in Namibia). Mr. McCain and others assert that the mining project will be a boost to the local economy, though its unclear how many of the 1,400 promised jobs would be local; a Superior-area miners group, in fact, opposes the swap on the basis that it wont help the local people or economy. Rio Tinto, incidentally, has been called out in the past for environmental devastation.
Let's see 'em try handing over a church to foreign investors - see how big an uproar that brings out!
dembotoz
(16,804 posts)here in wisconsin the gop bastards almost got thru a bill to plow up native mounds
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is
Octafish
(55,745 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)So now in nutjob Republican fantasyland, Obama can break a law that never became a law?