Did Lamborn meet with locals?
Dear Editor:
"Lamborn supports Christo" was the March 20 Mountain Mail headline.
The article stated that after meeting with Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo) announced he supports the "Over the River" project and called it a "privilege" to host it.
The second paragraph states, "Lamborn represents Chaffee, Fremont, Park, Lake, El Paso, and Teller counties."
Well, he may represent all those "counties," but what about the citizens, living in the counties, who would be most affected, whose lives would be adversely impacted on a daily basis for 3 years (not the pretended two weeks)?
Mr. Lamborn may "represent" those several counties, but obviously in no way represents, understands, or evidently have much in common with the humans who live between Cañon City and Salida where Christo wants to construct his misguided project.
And, the fact that "the artists themselves called for the EIS" does not indicate they are "committed to protecting the environment" as Lamborn suggests, but because the EIS is the next step legally required if they are to get what they want.
Mr. Lamborn may have met with the artists in Washington, D.C., 2,000 miles from Colorado, but when did he meet with the people who live in Texas Creek, Cotopaxi, Coaldale, Howard, and Swissvale?
When did he meet with the people who know, because they live here, why Christo's proposed project is not a good idea?
When did Mr. Lamborn actually live along the Bighorn Sheep Canyon corridor which would have placed him in a position to begin to understand the impact of Christo's poorly thought out 3-year project would have on local voting, tax-paying citizens?
And, when did Mr. Lamborn last deeply consider how his influence-peddling would affect the non-humans whose home this is?
Lastly, how do citizens manage to allow someone like Mr. Lamborn to acquire, or keep, a position in which he makes decisions and pronouncements that could render the lives of local people and nature herself so totally insignificant?
Judith E. Hicks,
Howard
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