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You remember Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, right? He’s the Republican dweeb who thought Cliven Bundy’s skirmish against the feds was so important that he caravaned to the Nevada compound with a gaggle of other Arizona nitwits to support the criminals.

Gosar had time to make the long drive to Nevada, but when Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress last year, the climate-denying congressman did not have time for that audience. Because, you see, Francis is a flaming environmentalist in Gosar’s alleged mind, so he boycotted the event, being the good Catholic that he is.

On Monday in Kingman, Arizona, Congressman Gosar will host a public meeting, which he is calling “Government Land Grab: Exposing the Truth.” The gathering of Sagebrush Rebellion pinheads is in response to fellow Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva’s recent attempt to create the Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument. Grijalva’s bill, which was written with the tribes who call Grand Canyon their sacred home (Havasupai, Hualapai, Navajo, Hopi), as well as local environmental groups, would protect 1.7 million acres on the south and north sides of the giant gorge by prohibiting further mining.

“[The bill] permanently protects the Grand Canyon from new uranium mining claims; protects tribal sacred cultural sites; promotes a more collaborative regional approach between tribal nations and federal land managers; protects commercial and recreational hunting; preserves grazing and water rights; and conserves the Grand Canyon watershed."

As Phoenix New Times points out, even though 80 percent of Arizonans support Rep. Grijalva’s bill, the measure is unlikely to pass the Senate, so the pressure is on President Obama to create the monument with the stroke of his pen, which he can do under the 1906 Antiquities Act. That’s the same Act that President Theodore Roosevelt used in 1908 to set aside the original Grand Canyon boundaries.