QUID HAS HEARD Boys will be boys, and girls will be — different. There was no doubt a collective sigh of relief across the city this week when 13-year-old Lann Alun Boehler was found safe. Seems the lad took off from his mom’s house Sept. 15 in the middle of the night, sending the woman into days of panic when he didn’t come home. Police went public Sept. 18, asking for help, and quickly got it when it was revealed that Boehler had been hanging out at a nearby pal’s house. That brought immediate questions from mom types here and everywhere as to how the boy managed so long without clean clothes and underthings. Blink. Blink. Blink. It was only three days, not three years.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that according to Aurora’s gaggle of grumpy grumpers, there actually is a group of people more lowly than newspaper and government types: bankers.
At least that’s the conclusion your faithful hack draws when seeing Citizens for Responsible Aurora Government’s “No-on-2B” signs cropping up like llamas across the city. Seems that the CRAGy group doesn’t one bit like the notion of the city asking voters to extend a property tax hike to build more roads and road-like things, Ballot Question 2B. CRAG immediately began telling their follower that the question is actually a tax hike in disguise of a tax hike, and that voting for the measure would result in most of the city residents turning into pillars of salt. To convince you of all this, big, red signs, or at least one sign, asks voters to “Stop the Bankers.” Bankers? No one’s sure what that’s about other than nobody likes them these days. Look for future vote-no-on-2B signs to ask voters to “Stop the Soviets,” or “Stop the Mosquitoes” by voting “no” on 2B.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that Mitt Romney’s touchy-steely America is taking hold. Seems a fellow conservative GOPer here in Aurora, state Rep. Cindy Acree, R-Aurora, feels your pain if you’re poor and uninsured — and she kinda likes it. In a post on ColoradoPols, Acree was lamenting the expansion of Medicaid for supposedly poor people, like the ones who make less than $11,700 a year, wanting to get on the country’s medical dole once insurance becomes mandatory. “How are we going to pay for it?” Acree asks, before answering her own question that in her estimation, we can’t. “We can’t be everything to everybody. And we’ve got to tighten our belt, and we’re going to have to cut things that aren’t necessary to the function of general society, and we’re going to have to move on. Somebody’s gonna hurt. That’s just the way it is.”
Quid is happy to take the names of those willing to bear the brunt.
AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.