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Carmona lacks understanding of Arizona-specific issues,
geography
PHOENIX –
After being questioned by Jeff Flake during a February 16
hearing of the House Appropriations Committee concerning uranium mining,
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was forced to admit that the land the Obama
administration sought to ban from being mined was actually not in the Grand
Canyon or within the Grand Canyon National
Park.
Here’s a transcript of the
exchange:
Flake: “If those of us who
disagree with the decision to remove a million acres, nobody in the Department
can say, or it’s not true, that we are advocating to mine in the Grand Canyon.
Correct?”
Salazar: “That’s exactly
correct.”
Flake: “And by the same
token, none of us who disagree with the Department’s decision can be said to be
advocating mining within the Grand Canyon National Park either?”
Salazar: “That is
correct.”
Despite this, Democrat Richard Carmona and his liberal PAC allies
persistently and falsely attacked Flake as someone who has called for mining in
the Grand Canyon. (“Flake would open Grand Canyon to uranium
mining,” Carmona press
release, October 20, 2012; “Flake Introduced Bill To Lift Moratorium On
Grand Canyon Mining,” Carmona press release, October 20, 2012;
“Why is Congressman Flake lobbying for
mining uranium at the Grand Canyon,” Carmona fundraising solicitation,
October 21, 2012)
Flake supports mining in the Arizona Strip – which, to anyone
familiar with Arizona, is not
in the Grand Canyon or within the Grand Canyon National Park.
In fact, mining has already
existed on the Strip for decades. Carmona and the Obama
administration seek to prohibit new mining, which would cost jobs and harm the
state’s economy in that area.
For more information on Jeff Flake and why he’s running for
the U.S. Senate, please visit his website at www.JeffFlake.com.
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