“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….”
