QUID HAS HEARD that Aurora Public Schools officials are ready to back the bus over the district’s growing budget woes. Seems APS folks have agreed to start selling ad space on the side of school buses as a way of making cash for kids. Selling out schools is, of course, nothing new. For years, school districts have been selling ad space inside school gyms and handing over the future buying habits of generations of kids to Coke or Pepsi. Quid suggests that if APS is going to profit on kids, that it make the most of the situation by selling high-priced political ads and cashing in on our community suffering. Your loyal hack has taken the liberty of providing the first few moveable feats:

From the Romney campaign: President OBAMA HOPES to drive this government bus up your assets. Help me stop him.

From the Obama campaign: BELIEVE that ROMNEY will have 47% of the kids on this bus assigned to only the back seats or tied to the top.

From the Amendment 64 campaign: Just say “now” to keeping the wheels of this bus going ‘round and ‘round with new tax dollars from legal kush. Vote YES on 64.

From the Joe Miklosi for Congress campaign: Mike Coffman thinks that most of the kids on this bus shouldn’t be.

From the Mike Coffman for Congress campaign: Joe Miklosi has to drive this bus from Denver to get to your congressional district.

And advertisements from local businesses? Try these:

From Romantix: Doing all we can to keep this bus full.

From Chick-fil-A: We respect everybody on this bus and all bus drivers, except our own, who happens to be an idiot and doesn’t speak for the stockholders or the franchise owners. So really, we mean it. Please come back. Please.

McDonald’s: If you really cared about your kid you’d get him off this bus and make him walk home so he could have fries with his Happy Meal instead of our lame fruit option.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that Romney did not build his own campaign for president here in Aurora. Karen did. At least that’s the message your loyal hack takes away from a recent visit to Romney campaign headquarters in our very own burg. The “Aurora Victory Center” has set up shop in a vacant storefront at 479 Sable Blvd. The windows of the center are plastered with Romney for prez stuff, but above the storefront is the glowing standard, announcing what’s inside is Creaciones de Karen. Draw your own conclusions.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that Aurora has made clear what’s near and dear to its heart-shaped cupcakes laced with wacky weed. Dave Perry, chief hack for your favorite Aurora fish wrapper, penned prose last week about the upcoming election question asking voters to make the evil weed as legal as beer. Talk about taking some big hits — to our website. Internet traffic into and out of Perry’s column rivaled and then surpassed previous favorite controversies from our home town, including angry pit bulls and local breastaurants. Quid knows now what you really want, Aurora, and suggests a new publication just for Aurora Sentinel readers dubbed, “Bongs, Bitches and Babes.”

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS