QUID HAS HEARD that the bar is getting much higher for those who wear the most stars at city hall. Seems that the city’s new top cop, the chiefly Nick Metz, not only had interesting and heartfelt things to say when he was sworn into office this week at a city council meeting, he quoted a few lines of poetry. Top Cop quoted Maya Angelou’s famous line, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” It was yet another instance where Aurora’s  4-star cop made it clear that he’s an eloquent, affable  guy. Quid can’t help but note the contrast to the former 4-star New Yorker, who was, well, not.

Quid relishes the idea of public officials quoting poets and poetry at public functions and suggests everyone start.

Mayor Steve Hogan will soon be banging the drum on trying to save the beleaguered Gaylord hotel from going down the road to developer hell.

“Two hotels appeared in a wood, and I   begged and pleaded for the one that drove Denver hotel owners out of their freaking minds, and that has made all the difference.”

Perhaps State Sen. Morgan Carroll, will  wax phonetic about the loss of common sense and deep thought in the grand state Senate chambers, where she was ousted as captain by one Republican senate seat last fall. Few have felt the shot as deeply as Carroll, who must now watch  as bills from the furthest reaches of liberal hell fly from that chamber to the Democratic House.

“O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bills; Bills that put guns in schools, guns in vending machines, guns in cereal boxes.  Rise up, my presidency — for you the PFLAG is flung aside as righty tighties fight to keep gays from eating wedding cake — for you Colorado Springs trills, and actually makes a fool of itself.”

Given that Aurora’s former top cop was so East Coast in telling everyone what he thought, Quid is surprised that former police Chief Dan Oates didn’t part town after parting words from the famous Fred Ebb.
“Start spreading the news…”

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS