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An article by Frank Schiavone

Shenanigans in Our Foothills

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A controversial project is proposed for the foothills above Alta Loma where the Carrari’s Christmas Tree Farm once stood. The project applicant is Gary Miller, that’s Congressman Gary Miller of Diamond Bar. The project will lie at 3000 feet or higher and will be seen from virtually anywhere in the City. It will back up to slopes that rise dramatically up the Peak of Cucamonga. To the south are steep, heavily vegetated ravines.

There’s only one long, winding exit out for future residents and it’s gated to keep us riff-raff out. A lot of people are upset about it. Now I happily admit that I am an environmentalist, but you don’t have to be a land conservationist to be angry about this project development. Congressman Miller’s project requires some good old-fashioned Kentucky mountaintop removal with the “overburden” and “spoil” pushed into canyons burying intermittent streams, a waterfall, and rare plants and animals.

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An article by Frank Schiavone

Paying Favors: Is that what politics is about?

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Congressman Gary Miller and Rancho Cucamonga Mayor Don Kurth must be longtime pals. Otherwise, why would Congressman Gary Miller be so supportive of my mayor?

Recently, I read an invitation to purchase tickets to “Mayor Don Kurth’s Annual Luncheon”. Listed in the invite are the names of people on a “Host Committee”. You have to come up with at least $ 5,000.00 to be listed as a host committee member. Guess whose name is listed first on that host committee? Congressman Gary Miller!

Now $5,000 is a lot of money to hand over to a political candidate, let alone a local politician. The Congressman doesn’t live in Rancho and we’re not his constituents. What would motivate a US Congressman to be so generous towards the mayor of Rancho Cucamonga? It has to be a deep and abiding friendship.

Or could it be that Congressman Miller has a pending application to build a highly destructive, multi-million project development in our foothills and needs several concessions from our City in order to make it happen? You see, Congressman Miller needs to move heaven and earth – a lot of it.

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