QUID HAS HEARD that both Arapahoe County Dems and some ArapCo Republicans booked rooms next to each other to party down Tuesday night after the elections. Both parties sent out notices to the hacks this week that the Red Lion Hotel in Aurora would serve as some sort of bizarro-world, post-election Studio 54 — except with more politicos and probably the same outdated, disco soundtrack. We can only hope the hotelier booked the party rooms on opposite ends of the hotel so Donkeys and Elephants didn’t have to share the same washrooms, although we hope they didn’t. Like most election parties, the local parties give way to the statewide parties pretty early in the night, so any opportunity for wedgies, noogies, wet willies or arm wrestling was likely short lived. Although the moods were probably decidedly different for the parties, at least they both found common ground on finger foods.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that long political seasons tend to bring out the worst in everyone. That seems to be the case with a man ticketed on Election Day for indecent exposure and then some. Seems the man was in his car near the voting center at CenterPointe in central Aurora when he decided to fulfil the scratching of a sexual itch right then and there, all by himself. Unhappy fellow voters alerted police, who confronted the man and told him it was “Election” day, and that just nice grandpas and grandmas were hanging out at the polling site. The incidence turned out to be just the ticket for the discombobulated voters.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that state nabobs and such need to keep a Colorado exit strategy in mind during the next few months. Seem pollsters snagging voters on Election Day to answer yet even more questions told their questioners some surprising things. Among the answers you might not suspect was that about two-thirds of those who voted want to see that illegal immigrants be offered some kind of program to become a legal resident or citizen. Clearly, that’s not the exit strategy that former Aurora nabob Congressman Tom Tancredo and much of the Republican Congress have in mind. Likewise, voters on the way out were pretty high on the idea of legalizing pot. There are some token exceptions, it turns out, senior citizens being the biggest one. Seems middle-aged men and women alike more than like the idea of creating even more pot shots. The issue clearly calls for marketing folks to get the word out about the benefits of gardening with ganja or how much better lunchtime big-box store samples are after a little red bud for breakfast.
And that’s all the news that fits.