CON GAMES: The Loony Bin Of Aspen Politics


“So we have Marilyn Marks resigning from The Red Ant blog, the waspish Elizabeth Milias berating Aspen City Manager Steve Barwick, and the gnatty Andrew Kole professing his love for blondes in a bottle,” blogs the Con Man. “Just another day in Paradise, where the insects are only human. In the loony bin of Aspen politics, I have been trying to make sense of the nonsensical…. I finally figured out why everything seems so loony, thanks to a letter Tuesday in the local fishwrap from Ward Hauenstein, a new member of the newly reconstituted EC. In asking for public comment, Hauenstein wrote: ‘As a new member I have no surviving complaints submitted to the last EC, save the Zimet complaint.’ That’s right: the entire Mayoral and City Council ‘controversy’ produced exactly one formal complaint to the Election Commission, from Millard Zimet, said to be a very smart man. The rest of the noise came primarily from two people: Marilyn Marks and Elizabeth Milias….”

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