The Con Man casts the deciding vote to break the “best of” competition deadlock between Mayor Mick Ireland and the Silver Queen Gondola. “I have had my doubts,” he blogs, “about the democratic street cred of a Mayor who would suppress debate, push through an ‘emergency’ ban on changes to ‘historical’ houses built before 1977–and then get the City Council to pony up $200,000 to study the ‘emergency’ he just made up on the bike path. Nonetheless and irregardless, the head-to-head competition with the gondola has brought the governance of Aspen to the light of day for the likes of me.”