In case you haven’t been paying attention, it’s election season in Aspen. The usual suspects — exiting office holders, incumbents and new faces — are all out and about touting past achievements and making lots of grand promises which, if you give them a seat at the table, they’ll use to impact your lives and livelihood in ways unimagined by those who preceded them. In some cases, we’ve already seen what they’re capable of — and in the case of Mayor Torre and City Councilmembers Rachel Richards and Skippy Mesirow, the results are generally unspectacular, despite the fact the first two have made their lengthy political careers the primary source of their identities and sustenance and the third one appears headed in the same direction. A high-altitude overview of their years in office shows a lot of political rhetoric and lots of votes on issues they claimed would make the city a better place in which to live and work. But from the reviews of their respective tenures, all the problems we had before they arrived to save us are the same problems still plaguing us, but in most cases much worse than before they were sworn in. Traffic […]
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