U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton took a firsthand look Tuesday at one of the hottest issues in this portion of his sprawling 3rd Congressional District. Tipton, a freshman in Congress, and staff members met with the commander at Fort Carson and then headed south for a tour of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site before an evening town hall meeting at Trinidad State Junior College. Even though the Army has put its plan to expand the maneuver site on hold, area residents remain suspicious and continue to criticize the Army for the way it uses the 230,000 acres it already controls. Following his tour of the site and a number of briefings, Tipton said that he believed the Army was doing a better job of communicating what it's doing and that there are no imminent plans to expand...more
Looking for someone to display leadership and take a firm stand? Well Republican Tipton is not your man. He just wants better "communicating" by the Army.
The article also has this:
Asked if he would support congressional action to put in place a permanent funding ban for expansion, Tipton said there needed to be more dialogue.
A leader who truly wanted to protect the land owners would put the ban in place, and then let them "dialogue" all they wanted to.
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