The Aspen mayoral race
With both Tim and Mick wanting to be mayor, neither may win and we risk losing a huge new entrance development ie the “straight-shot”
And sadly, too, I fear there are precious few straight-shot votes to split.
In the last entrance election three or four years ago, despite valliant efforts by both Mick and Tim to sell us the straight-shot, only some twenty percent of registered Aspen voters came out for the thing.
Even county voters balked at the new straight-shot entrance proposal, preferring to retain those silly s-curves.
And the s-curvers weren’t gracious in victory either.
Some got ugly about it all, yelling out quotes from the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson like “THERE IS SOME S—-T WE JUST WON’T EAT.” But, worst of all, Colorado construction interests missed a $60-$80 million public money gravy train.
Just think how glum Haliburton would feel financially now if we hadn’t gone to Iraq and they’d missed their bonanza — then figure that’s akin to how the big road construction concerns did feel when they were poised to build us that spiffy new grownup entrance into Aspen with tunnels under water and all and then we went and voted the whole mess down, sinking the straight-shot like a led zeppelin. We’ve got to get real in Aspen, wake up and smell the coffee! The curves must go. There must be another election.
With our puny s-curves entrance, Aspen will never actualize its potential to bloom into an industrialized city like Denver, that is our destiny! You ever see a giant tractor-trailer rig struggle to negotiate our s-curves? It takes the poor thing fifteen to twenty minutes to shudder and screech and lurch through. Plus a driver with the patience of Job.
And cops have to halt traffic in both directions during this truck opera because when the big rigs turn through the curves they need room to veer into oncoming lanes.
Reminds me of my aunt Mozelle trying to twist into her girdle, rest her soul.
Anyway, I love my new “S-CURVES SUCK” bumper sticker. And here’s a motto suggestion for all of us who want the straight-shot: “There is some s—t we MUST eat.” C’mon, guys, let’s do it for Mick and Tim — win a new entrance for Aspen, I mean.
No matter if neither gets to be mayor.
I wish I lived in Aspen. Apparently this is what passes for a political issue there.
You can always tell which communities have the most money, because they get worked up over the stupidest things. No, seriously though, I hope the s-curvers kick the crap out of the straight shoters (yeah!).
Posted by on March 30, 2007 08:59 AMI support your s-curves....just as long as the people of Pitkin County pay for it. I'm sure all you rich baffoons are looking for the working class to finance your little road project.....I don't think so.
Posted by Bob Mills on March 31, 2007 06:27 PMYes, some of it is your money, too, Bob, if you pay taxes to the state of Colorado. But the s-curves are our current entrance into Aspen. It was the "modified direct," entrance proposal, dubbed the straight shot by locals, that got defeated in our last entrance election by a big margin. One of the reasons given then was that CDOT was trying to foist a $60-$80 million road construction project, funded by public monies, on an affluent resort community such as Aspen which didn't even want the thing. But no one walks away from gravy train without a fight so there may be another entrance election again here soon. Only this time bureaucrats have strapped a "kinder, gentler" handle to the proposed project -- "the preferred alternative." But preferred by whom?
Posted by sterling greenwood on April 1, 2007 02:19 PMYesterday, Hardball's Chris Matthews talked about McCain's "winning streak." I must have missed it. Saturday McCain finished third in Nevada behind Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. McCain did win in South Carolina Saturday but only with 33 percent of the vote which means that 67 percent of voters in that state voted against. About a week ago McCain got trounced in Michigan by Romney and before that he placed fourth in Iowa behind Huckabee, Romney and Thompson. McCain did win in New Hampshire but not decisively. However if Hilliary Clinton had lost anywhere near as many times as McCain, the talking heads on TV would have long since buried her candidacy. I was supposed to be writing about the entrance to Aspen here but I must have got distracted.
Posted by Sterling Greenwood on January 22, 2008 12:29 PMHardball's Chris Matthews talked about John McCain's winning streak yesterday. Give me a break! On Saturday, McCain came in third in Nevada behind Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. He did win South Carolina on Saturday but with only 33 percent of the vote which means 67 percent of voters in that state voted against him. Before that he got trounced in Michigan by Romney and before that even he placed fourth in Iowa behind Romney, Huckabee and Thompson. If Hilliary Clinton had lost so many times as McCain, the talking heads on TV would have long since buried her candidacy. I was supposed to be writing about the s-curves here but must have got distracted.
Posted by Sterling Greenwood on January 22, 2008 12:33 PM