Our good friend Phil Richardson who knows "a little" about Oro Valley past legal involvements, has a few worthy comments concerning the latest foray involving the "crematorium issue."
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Sung to the Tune, “Back in the Saddle Again” (See Autry, Gene)*
“We’re back in the courtroom again,
We’re back fighting Miz Garrahan
Where the lonly builders feed
On more’n they’ll ever need -
Back in the courtroom again.
Whoopi-ty-aye-oh
Rocking, rolling, here we go,
Back in the courtroom again.”
April 23, The Taxpayers of Oro Valley will once again be making contributions to the Local Lawyers Retirement Fund, as a Pima County Superior Court Judge will start trying to decide whether Oro Valley residents who oppose a crematory in their neighborhood had their constitutional right to due process denied.
This essay does not propose to argue either side of that issue, although we cannot resist making an aside that none of the people in town hall have yet to volunteer to move next door to the smokestack.
We only wish to pause to lament the undeniable fact that the Oro Valley Town Council is involved, non-stop, in one litigious issue after another. The grand irony of this is that we taxpayers are footing the bill for all this litigation. We are are being soaked big bucks to fight ourselves!
Why do so many individuals, factions and divisions feel put upon – so much so, they are willing to risk their personal savings, not to mention their peace of mind, fighting Oro Valley Town Hall?
Someone, or some thing has to be to blamed for all of this continual controversy. Why is there such a great disconnect between the governors and the governed in this pretty town?
It cannot be greed; the lust for unending power, since everyone of our chosen leaders claim continually that all is being done, at no little sacrifice on their part – for our good!
It could be caused as the “Singing Cowboy” suggested, by the “lowly gypsum weed, out where the longhorn cattle feed,” or perhaps some yet undiscovered pernicious element washing down into the Canyon del Oro.
-Phil Richardson
*Gene Autry – The signature song of the mellow-voiced star of 65 “horse operas” Orvon Gene Autry 1907-1998. Founded Major League baseball team, “Los Angeles Angels” and owned a chain of radio and TV stations, including KOLD AM/TV, Tucson.
