The Growth Lobby Dumps Big Bucks Into The Move To Make Us Drink CAP Water SUPPORTERS OF PROP 201 have raised nearly $200,000 in the effort to overturn the Water Consumer Protection Act, passed by 57 percent of the voters in 1995. There are two committees backing Prop 201: The Safe and Sensible Water Committee, formed by pool builder Chuck Freitas, who spearheaded the effort to put the initiative on the ballot; and The Responsible Water Coalition, formed by Steve Weatherspoon, a local attorney who serves on the Central Arizona Water Conservation District. The two groups have raised more than $200,000 to push Prop 201, which would repeal the Water Consumer Protection Act and thus reintroduce CAP water into local homes. This partial list of contributors to the two committees is, in essence, an X-ray of Tucson's powerful Growth Lobby, whose members stand to profit handsomely through continued unrestrained growth--if only local citizens will agree to drink that dirty ditch water: Safe and Sensible Water Committee Fairfield Green Valley: $20,000 Diamond Ventures: $10,000 Broadway Realty and Trust, Inc.: $15,000 Estes Homebuilding Co.: $5,000 Borderland Construction Co.: $5,000 Metro Pima Alliance: $3,500 4-D Properties: $3,000 Sundt Corp.: $1,000 Jim Click Nissan: $2,500 Jim Click Ford: $2,500 Patio Pools and Spas: $1,000 Arizona Builders Alliance: $150 The Responsible Water Policy Coalition Estes Homebuilding Co.: $3,000 Asarco Incorporated: $5,000 Tucson Electric Company: $10,000 Diamond Ventures: $2,500 Sundt Corp.: $4,000 Schomac Group, Inc.: $2,500 Metro Pima Alliance: $7,000 U.S. Homes: $2,000 Phelps Dodge Corporation: $2,500 Ventana Mountain Estates: $2,000 New World Homes: $2,000 Various Jim Click car dealerships: $7,479 Central Arizona Project Association: $7,500 California Portland Cement Company: $4,000 Johnson-Manley Lumber: $2,000 O'Rielly Motor Company: $900 Broadmont Real Estate Associates: $1,500 National Bank of Tucson: $1,000 Ashland Group: $2,000 ASR Investments Corporation: $3,000 Rick Engineering Company: $2,000 SWVP Corporation: $1,000 The Ashton Company: $1,000 Citadel Land Corporation: $500 Tucson Realty and Trust: $1,000 CTI: $4,000 KE&G Companies: $1,000 PICOR: $1,000 Southwest Gas: $5,000 Tucson 30, Inc.: $2,500 Rita Land Corporation: $2,500 Overland Vistoso Ltd: $2,500 Bank One: $4,000 Lewis and Roca, LLP: $1,000 HealthPartners of Southern Arizona: $2,500

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