{"id":2440338,"date":"2019-02-08T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/disclosures-and-disclaimers-for-aspen-voters\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:12:01","slug":"disclosures-and-disclaimers-for-aspen-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/disclosures-and-disclaimers-for-aspen-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Disclosures and disclaimers for Aspen voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Maurice Emmer&#8217;s recent letter <a id=\"N0x1ef64a0N0x2066410:N0x1ef64a0N0x1eb7430\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-mayoral-hopefuls-so-far-a-dud\/\">&#8220;Aspen Mayoral hopefuls so far a dud&#8221;<\/a> (Commentary, The Aspen Times, Feb. 7) has prompted me to consider throwing my own hat into the ring. But before officially declaring, there are a few matters I wish to be proactive about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">First, there are undoubtedly records showing that I was once a cis-gendered Boy Scout. And an altar boy. Moreover, there is abundant photographic evidence that I misrepresented myself as a Native American, by means of a makeshift headdress and bow-and-arrow ensemble. Inexplicably, at the same time I also was mimicking the genocidal ways of Hop-along Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I am even more embarrassed by holding degrees in the literature of Western Civilization, without having once attempted to deconstruct all the inherent evils in my ancestral past that this literature reveals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">All I can say by way of apology is that these things do not represent who I am now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Finally, it will quickly be pointed out that I am not now, nor ever have been, a citizen of Aspen, but I know that Aspen&#8217;s enlightened electorate will surely not hold that against me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Chad Klinger<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/disclosures-and-disclaimers-for-aspen-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Emmer&#8217;s recent letter &#8220;Aspen Mayoral hopefuls so far a dud&#8221; (Commentary, The Aspen Times, Feb. 7) has prompted me to consider throwing my own hat into the ring. But before officially declaring, there are a few matters I wish to be proactive about. First, there are undoubtedly records showing that I was once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:13:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}