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Kirby H. has responded that she was sick and didn't want to spread germs. That she did arrive at the forum, shortly after Sybil Barnes (who arrived late), and stood at the back of the room because she was concerned for other people's well-being. In two years, the story will morph into her being the only one who attended the forum, having to run it extemporaneously because Town Clerk Williamson was standing at the back of the room puking her guts out. How about not coming and exposing a room full of oldsters to fomites from a respiratory illness? How about telling a cub reporter "Hey, I was sick, I don't need the publicity, I was sitting (or standing, who knows how sick someone is when they are certainly not sick enough to avoid engaging in conversation with others at the conclusion of the event, and why do we need young trustees who are constantly ill, talk about a bad sign) in the back sick and probably not your best witness to the events that unfolded, and ther...

Kirby H. was asked by the T-G cub reporter Will Oster via email on January 3 to essential do his job for him (because he was too lazy or too distant from Estes Park to attend), asking our talking trustee to essentially "cover" the candidate forum for him, the hour-long presentation held in the town hall on January 2. Kirby H. was not in attendance, at least she was not in the building at the time the event started at 6:00 p.m., and not seated in any of the rows provided for people in attendance at any point during the presentation. She was seen standing in the back of the room at the end, and may have been there for 15 minutes prior to the event officially ending, but she never made her presence known (unlike Frank Lancaster, for example, or Travis Machalek) and who in the hell stands in the back of a room to "participate" in an event unless they are spying or scared? Would you elect a trustee who spent every board meeting hiding in the bushes outside? And then,...

Here is part of what I sent to the T-G yesterday, well before deadline (I also sent them an earlier email with an exact tally of which trustees were in attendance, plus any spouses, and a head count of who was in the audience and who picked up candidate packets): In any event, if Kirby doesn't respond and you need the nuts and bolts of what happened, Town Clerk Williamson spoke first for the first thirty minutes with a Power Point presentation outlining the qualifications needed to become a candidate (18 years old, residence in town for at least one year), the petition candidates need to circulate to get on the ballot (10 signatures of voters who live in town), how your name can appear on the ballot, the important deadlines if you want to be a write-in candidate or want to withdraw, the lot drawing for order on the ballot, the date the ballots go out, the date of the LWV forum, the day of the actual election, etc., and then spent more time talking about campaign laws and funding a...