Why I March

Rep. Paul Gosar has been the Congressman for Arizona’s 4th Congressional District since 2011.  When he was first elected in 2010, he was hailed as the Tea Party candidate and was endorsed by disgraced politicians Sarah Palin and Joe Arpaio. There are many reasons Paul Gosar does not deserve another term, but here we will focus on the top three: 1. Gosar wants to sell Arizona’s public lands to the highest bidder.  During his career Rep. Gosar has accepted the fourth highest contribution amounts from the energy and natural resources sector. He has co-sponsored 32 of the 84 anti-public lands bills, despite the fact that 88% of Arizonans believe that public lands are essential to Arizona’s economy. Claiming  “federal overreach,” he champions irresponsible uranium mining and livestock industries regardless of the harm they cause to public lands, water, and health, especially that of Arizona’s indigenous peoples.  https://kdminer.com/news/2017/nov/03/gosar-hails-us-move-end-ba

This is my story of what happened at the Capitol on Monday....I think that this is important for voters especially to hear! My name is Sedona Ortega and I am 14 years old. I am writing because I want to shed some light on what happened on the third floor of the House of Representatives when I went to share my opinions with our State Representative David Stringer about the #RedforEd movement and education funding.   Our conversation began with Mr. Stringer asking me questions about what sustainable education funding meant to me. He was referring to a handwritten letter we had left for him. This was fine, however he kept referring to our letter and the meeting we were having with him as “little”. At that point, my mother (an elementary teacher who is one of the hardest working people I know) kindly asked that he not use the adjective “little” to describe our meeting because it felt belittling, and made it seem like what we were there to talk to him about, wasn’t important.