May 6th, 2008

Schaffer Backs Funding Ban on Expansion

From the Pueblo Chieftain

Doesn’t anybody like the Army?

Bob Schaffer, the Republican candidate for the Senate, ended months of mystery Monday when he said the Army has failed to make its case for expanding the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and he supports a congressional funding ban on the 414,000-acre expansion until the Army proves otherwise.

“I am adamantly opposed to the use of eminent domain by the government in this case,” Schaffer said in a phone interview. “As far as I am concerned, the Army has not made its case for expanding Pinon Canyon. The Army is supposed to justify their reasons for the expansion (in a report to the Senate) and I am waiting for that report as well.” Read the rest of the story…

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