Telluride (CO) adopted a resolution calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

[ProSense]

Impeachment call miffs Telluride skiers

Resort faces ski trip cancellations after town council's action

By Allen Best
Special to The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
July 25, 2007

TELLURIDE — A backlash quickly emerged after the Telluride Town Council adopted a resolution last week calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

“It’s huge, unbelievable,” said Telluride Mayor John Pryor. “Ski groups are canceling for the winter. Hundreds of people are bailing. The (town) website is flooded with people saying they’re canceling their vacations here.”

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If this was a silly initiative, why did he vote for it? The answer would seem to lie in the fact that the council routinely adopts resolutions, on matters both big and small, with nary a further word. Further, such a resolution would be hardly controversial in Telluride, where only 17 percent of voters in the 2004 election cast ballots for Bush.

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But with Internet speed, e-mail protests and cancellations began rolling in, including that of a Florida ski club.

There was also support. “Let ‘em go to Vail,” wrote one Texan named Dan Stewart Olney on a newspaper website. “I will commit to spend more time and money in Telluride now thanks to the initiative.”

Among the community members endorsing the resolution was Phil Miller, a veteran of World War II who was wounded in the Philippines.

“The people have acquiesced too easily because they don’t know the horror that war unleashes,” Miller said of the Iraq War. “I have seen the brutality of war that turns nice young men into barbarians.”

[cosmik debris]

1. The skiers may not like it but

The blue grass fans will love it. I was there last month for the Telluride Blue Grass Festival and it was a distinctly left leaning crowd.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Fuck the Repukes ski group

They don't really ski.. THey just smoke weed and get drunk. It just made Telluride a little safer to ski. I'll schedule a ski trip there! :thumbsup:

EDIT: I'm guessing it's the FoF in Fundyland (Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs) lying to the ski lodge "cancelling" their planned ski trip - which never existed anyway, and what's more, as the 17% proves it, Telluride doesn't like Chimp. (John Salazar, a DINO, is their rep)

[Jack Rabbit]

3. How many of those people telling the Mayor they were cancelling really had a booking in Telluride?

. . . and how many just work for Karl Rove?

[eleny]

4. the fewer repukes coming to colorado the better

we have enough trouble with our air. }(

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Telluride is BEAUTIFUL! I wish I was a skier, I'd go there.

I agree with Dan Stewart! Let 'em go to Vail! Screw 'em.

[ProSense]

6. Kick! n/t

[ProSense]

7. Kick! n/t