Pinon Canyon

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer told the Pueblo Chieftain Tuesday that he supports a Congressional funding ban on a 414,000-acre expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site until the Army can justify it.

"I am adamantly opposed to the use of eminent domain by the government in this case," Schaffer told the Chieftain. "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."