Editor:

To my friends from around the world, to the residents of Aurora‘s Sister Cities and to the folks from every continent who have chosen to settle in Aurora to find a better life for their children—I apologize.

What you heard and saw Friday at the Trump campaign rally is not what Aurora is. I have been in Aurora close to five decades and I do not remember ever the city being the scene of such vitriolic hatred.  A blatantly partisan political campaign event does not represent who we are. 


Local government works because it is non-partisan. In my 16 years as an elected city council member and state representative, I have never met a Republican pothole or a Democratic street sign. 
We have had presidents here before; the horrific theater tragedy brought the president who did not hold a rally to boast about himself and spew lies. No, he went to the hospital, where the victims and their families were, and specifically thanked the medics and emergency responders, community partners, and citizens for their outpouring of care and concern. That is servant leadership! 
What we saw Friday is shameful. It could’ve been accomplished on a zoom call with the new police chief and the former president at much less financial and emotional expense. Who is paying the security bill, by the way?
Mayor Mike Coffman, shame on you! Shame on you for allowing our city, my city, to be played the fool and to hurt the very heart of what we as a city are proud to be, “ the world in a city.”

Molly Markert
Aurora

9 replies on “LETTER: Aurora is nothing like a the hate fomented at the Trump rally”

    1. I so agree! And I’m sure Aurora taxpayers will get stiffed by trump and pay for the high cost of his visit. We should have told him he’d be fact-checked at his “rally” and he would have stayed away.

  2. It was only a political rally, Molly. As far as you are concerned, it wasn’t representative of your personal left wing thoughts so you call it hateful. Like everything else you make it out to be more than what it is/was.

    As a passing thought, “the world in a city” doesn’t make a community better. It only makes a community struggle to figure out how to please many different, prior living styles into one cohesive community force. Almost impossible.

    We all should work on our attitudes about “hatred”, shouldn’t we, Molly. Life is so short.

    1. as usual, Dick attacks the poster rather than responds to the issues and facts. how trumpian of him, already letting trump’s hateful visit influence him.

    1. Thanks for the letter, Molly! We need to recall a time when we didn’t know or care who our neighbors voted for. We could rely on a decent politician to take office and act with dignity, even if we disagreed with those individual actions. Democracy was never at risk! What is taking place in the last 9 years has been hateful and divisive. Using our city as a prop for hateful rhetoric is ghastly, just like all of the lies and rhetoric of Trump’s term as president. The gaggle of wannabes, like Jurinski, Bobert, and Ganahl will quickly be forgotten on the trash heap that is the Colorado GOP. We need two functioning parties again, but the repair process only starts with the acceptance of the truth and the will to work for the people!

  4. Hey Debra MacKillop. I really don’t know how a “hateful visit” can be defined.

    But I envision two two little old lady social workers getting together, maybe with a bit of elderberry wine, discussing how disgusting anyone who likes MAGA Republicans must be.

    Anyway, Debra, thanks for capitalizing my name! I noticed it was the only capital in your comment. And Molly’s not a “poster”, she’s a letter writer. Maybe someday, I’ll understand your secret messages in using so much incorrect grade school grammar. Now that’s attacking the “poster” because there is no, “issues and facts”.

  5. “The World in a City,” eh? Does Molly realize that the world isn’t all that nice of a place, and that safe societies are not the default state of human history?

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