What a puzzle
So Estes Truth was not in the audience at last night's town board meeting (I counted seven folks at the beginning), but was obviously watching online or on his 68-inch flatscreen, because he finally stood bolt upright and started advocating for those who save money instead of those who, with cheerful willingness, waste money.
I'm not sure why the town administrator is busting his buttons over rallying so quickly to spend $1 million taxpayer dollars (technically, the expenditure will come later, and anything left over, probably around $6.35 now that they've telegraphed how much they have (and how they are not going to close before the seller promises to hide some trash, because they are not first-time buyers), will roll back into the water fund, which clearly had a million too much sitting around in it for emergencies, which this was not), but you can read about that elsewhere.
What puzzled me was Senator Holcomb's decision to announce during the show and tell portion, really for no good reason, that Jon Nicholas was taking a leave of absence or similar from the Economic Development Corporation, and that Adam Shake (have we ever seen a published apology to all 6-year-olds out there for the Fourth of July DUI?) was filling in admirably during his walkabout. This sound like something more than a head cold, or why announce it, but typical of Estes Park, where you only get half the news unless you are cool enough to merit breadcrumbs (how's that 6-year-old doing, Trail Gazette?), we don't know more, until someone who is angry because I'm being callow (maybe he is being treated for lymphoma, but at least it would be appropriate to announce that, don't you think?) writes an angry comment filling me in. For example, someone really needs to pull Al Milano aside about his insistence on an IMAX theater, and how this was never what people were donating money towards when EPIC was squatting downtown. Milano Cookies is a salaried fundraiser? I could do more with 7 business cards and some sticks of chewing gum imprinted with the EPIC logo. I haven't been sick one day in the past 15 years, haven't visited a doctor or free STD clinic at all during that same period, and am on no medications. Why do we hire/appoint folks who take more than their allotted sick days, or covet IMAX as if it were the Parousia?
Digression aside, this is now the third unexplained absence of town or town-controlling employees within the past week, once you figure in Kate Rusch being spirited away without warning and thus unable to participate in the recent truther forum (featuring of all people Mike Romero, who, if he suddenly got religion, must have obtained it from a traveling salesman), and Claudine Pernod (she lives, although still unable to respond to my offer of free burner phones - an interesting observation from yesterday is that, if you are white, the library will allow you to use their phone to make personal calls, but if you are a minority, not so much), self-appointed to vice on the Transportation Advisory Board, and then, shortly thereafter, submitting her resignation. Apparently the realization that she might have to attend meetings with the unwashed overwhelmed her.
So don the tinfoil hats, everyone, because some major pondering is in order. Where are Jon and Kate and Ross Perot when we need them? Now that Estes Truth is back alive (and back fawning over candidates who are vehemently pro-Loop and have always been pro-Loop over candidates who are vehemently anti-Loop and have always been anti-Loop, thus returning with alacrity to contradict its very core principles), there is plenty of puzzlement afoot.
I'm not sure why the town administrator is busting his buttons over rallying so quickly to spend $1 million taxpayer dollars (technically, the expenditure will come later, and anything left over, probably around $6.35 now that they've telegraphed how much they have (and how they are not going to close before the seller promises to hide some trash, because they are not first-time buyers), will roll back into the water fund, which clearly had a million too much sitting around in it for emergencies, which this was not), but you can read about that elsewhere.
What puzzled me was Senator Holcomb's decision to announce during the show and tell portion, really for no good reason, that Jon Nicholas was taking a leave of absence or similar from the Economic Development Corporation, and that Adam Shake (have we ever seen a published apology to all 6-year-olds out there for the Fourth of July DUI?) was filling in admirably during his walkabout. This sound like something more than a head cold, or why announce it, but typical of Estes Park, where you only get half the news unless you are cool enough to merit breadcrumbs (how's that 6-year-old doing, Trail Gazette?), we don't know more, until someone who is angry because I'm being callow (maybe he is being treated for lymphoma, but at least it would be appropriate to announce that, don't you think?) writes an angry comment filling me in. For example, someone really needs to pull Al Milano aside about his insistence on an IMAX theater, and how this was never what people were donating money towards when EPIC was squatting downtown. Milano Cookies is a salaried fundraiser? I could do more with 7 business cards and some sticks of chewing gum imprinted with the EPIC logo. I haven't been sick one day in the past 15 years, haven't visited a doctor or free STD clinic at all during that same period, and am on no medications. Why do we hire/appoint folks who take more than their allotted sick days, or covet IMAX as if it were the Parousia?
Digression aside, this is now the third unexplained absence of town or town-controlling employees within the past week, once you figure in Kate Rusch being spirited away without warning and thus unable to participate in the recent truther forum (featuring of all people Mike Romero, who, if he suddenly got religion, must have obtained it from a traveling salesman), and Claudine Pernod (she lives, although still unable to respond to my offer of free burner phones - an interesting observation from yesterday is that, if you are white, the library will allow you to use their phone to make personal calls, but if you are a minority, not so much), self-appointed to vice on the Transportation Advisory Board, and then, shortly thereafter, submitting her resignation. Apparently the realization that she might have to attend meetings with the unwashed overwhelmed her.
So don the tinfoil hats, everyone, because some major pondering is in order. Where are Jon and Kate and Ross Perot when we need them? Now that Estes Truth is back alive (and back fawning over candidates who are vehemently pro-Loop and have always been pro-Loop over candidates who are vehemently anti-Loop and have always been anti-Loop, thus returning with alacrity to contradict its very core principles), there is plenty of puzzlement afoot.
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