Let's go back 10+ years ago, to March 2014, when Kirby Nelson-Hazelton was a Visit Estes Park staff member, Scott Webermeier was on the board of directors, and Elizabeth Fogarty had been selected yet had still not replaced the retiring Peggy Campbell as CEO. Even back then, the CEO was pulling in over $100K per year. Scott Webermeier, who left the school board under something of a cloud in 2003, and failed a re-election attempt in 2007 (this all relates to Richard Kastendieck, the superintendent of Estes Park School District R-3, who was convicted of embezzling more than $60,000 from the district) was a big Fogarty supporter, and was not a big fan of some of the other school board members who witnessed his interactions with Kastendieck. These folks not only remained in Estes Park, but began running for various board positions in other fields. This is all water under the bridge, but the rift in the current Estes Park political scene relates to which side you were on in 2003, w...