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There is a joke going around about a citizen who dies and meets the devil, who takes him to Hell for a day. The citizen spends the day on a beautiful golf course having a great time. The next day he is giving the choice of going to Heaven or Hell and he chooses Hell. When the citizen gets to Hell it turns out to be a smelly dump. He asks the devil, “What’s going on? This isn’t the same place I saw yesterday.” The devil replies, “The difference is yesterday I was campaigning. Today you voted.”
This joke came to mind when I read The Daily Sentinel article by Le Roy Standish, “Meis: Invest more in public lands.” Both Commissioners Craig Meis and Janet Rowland know that I have made this a campaign issue in the upcoming election. It is very clear that their first concern is protecting the oil and gas industry, not public lands. The discussion with Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and the Sierra Club is clearly pandering to citizens who do put protecting public lands first.
The article discusses the Grand Mesa visitor center. The visitor center was not able to stay open this winter because Mesa County would not match the $5,000 pledged to the Forest Service by Delta County for that purpose. Meis and Roland were shameless when talking about the $92,000 for needed repairs. They could not even find $5,000 this year.
Remember this rhetoric when you see drilling rigs lining the scenic byway leading up to the national forest as a result of BLM leases of mineral rights that Rowland and Meis would not protest. To bad we will not likely see this drilling until after citizens have voted.
DAVID A. KEARSLEY
Candidate for Mesa County Commissioner
District 3
Mesa
3 Responses to “Commissioners’ concern is for industry, not public lands”
Posted March 28th, 2008 at 6:00 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
D Kearsley says;
Remember this rhetoric when you see drilling rigs lining the scenic byway leading up to the national forest as a result of BLM leases of mineral rights that Rowland and Meis would not protest. To bad we will not likely see this drilling until after citizens have voted.
This is of cours one giant exaggeration that will never come to pass!
This guy sounds like a Democrat dressed up as a Rpublican just so he can get elected. He is yet another one of those people that moved here from another far away place because it was so nice here and now he wants to change it all to suit him and where he came from.
Posted March 28th, 2008 at 8:19 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Candidate Kearsley………You will have our votes. It’s definitely time for Meis and Rowland to continue in their Oil and Gas careers and get out of public (dis)service.
Hey, Regarding their campaign to Invest More in Public Lands…..isn’t Janet funny suggesting that they ask for Volunteers to clean the toilets, similar to the adopt a highway program?? I thought about that briefly………might work Janet……just don’t let almighty Haliburton volunteer for it. Take a drive along I-70 just east of Junction, where the adopt a highway sign says Haliburton is responsible for that stretch of the highway…………it’s a MESS. GARBAGE EVERYWHERE. Clearly HALIBURTON wanted their name up on the sign, but didn’t really want to do the nasty clean up work. Typical Haliburton. Next time you are driving that stretch of 70, check it out, it’s a disgrace. Thanks Haliburton.
Posted March 28th, 2008 at 8:40 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
D Kearsley is nothing more than a liberal Democrat dressed up as a Republican so he has a chance of becoming county Commissioner. His gross exaggerations of drilling activity shows he cannot be trusted with my vote.
He is yet another one of these people that moved here from a far away place because it was so nice here, then he wants to change it to be more like where he came from.
I beleive Janet Roland and Craig Meis are doing as good a job as anyone could expect to do under all the given circumstances and I applaud them for it.
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