Schaffer: Colorado River Compact a 'non-starter'
By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com ReporterLEADVILLE – Campaigning over a cup of decaf at the Golden Burro restaurant in Leadville Monday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer joined Colorado politicians of all stripes in denouncing a statement by presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain that the seven-state Colorado River Compact should be “renegotiated over time.”
“There’s no way I’m going to reopen the Colorado River Compact,” Schaffer said. “Opening up the Colorado River water compact is a non-starter for Coloradans. It is the only protection we have from the more politically powerful downstream states on the Colorado River.”
But, Schaffer added, “I’m convinced (McCain) intended to make general statements about further discussions on the Colorado River, not reopen the compact.”
Schaffer was visiting Leadville during a campaign swing through the central mountains Monday morning. In addition to water issues, Schaffer talked immigration, energy and forest management with local residents and press.
Speaking with a reporter from the Leadville Herald Democrat, Schaffer said misguided environmentalism is a primary cause of a significant bark beetle infestation that has killed off large stands of lodgepole pines in the Rocky Mountains.
“An infestation, such as we have today, is not a normal occurrence,” Schaffer said. “And it’s interesting, because the far left of the environmental movement will assert that it is a natural activity. But it isn’t. It is a function of national forests, public lands that are not managed properly; they’re not managed in the way to achieve an objective of forest health.”
As he spoke, Schaffer pulled out a small red book from his bag. The book, entitled “Use of National Forests,” was written in 1907 by Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the U.S. Forest Service.In the book Pinchot states the second goal of the Forest Service – after preventing forest fires – is that the forest “is used but not used up.”
“Hundreds of millions of feet of timber are sold from the forest each year,” Schaffer read from Pinchot’s book. “That is why the forest is protected. The timber is used.”
Schaffer was given the book while serving in Congress.“I carry this with me a lot because people forget,” he said. “The mission of the forest service has really gone by the wayside over the last 50 or 60 years.”
Asked about immigration, Schaffer advocated a “modern-day data processing system” to replace the paper-based processing system currently used by U.S. immigration authorities.
“Consider we’re living in a modern age trying to process 200,000 guests into the country every year for a variety of purposes,” Schaffer said. “And doing this with paper and pen – that is the source of frustration for so many people, and why after a couple years of frustration people (outside the U.S.) start considering, ‘All right, well, (the U.S.) is a robust economy. I’m sitting in Guatemala or whatever I happen to be and their corrupt government… maybe jumping the fence makes sense.’”
Schaffer advocated setting up government-contracted private-sector employment offices in other countries to “prequalify, preidentify foreign labor before they come to the United States.”
“We’re going to send American troops over to various countries around the world when there are severe breakdowns in diplomacy and human rights and so on,” Schaffer said. “It seems to me from a diplomatic standpoint it makes eminent sense to devote more resources up front when you get improved economic conditions in your own backyard – Mexico and Haiti.”
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Bob Schaffer is correct
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer is correct in thinking, that illegal immigration is not just hurting a few states, but every state in the union.
These politicians, advocates, pundits, better realize that illegal immigration is not going to be an issue they can brush under the rug.
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Along with the Iraq War illegal immigration is costing American taxpayers at all different levels of government at least a trillion dollars each year.
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