Telluride Mayor Speaks Out on Bush/Cheney Impeachment Initiative

"This was a silly initiative".  says Telluride Mayor John Pryor.  That's all that can be said for the big waste of time that was the Town Council Meeting Tuesday.  I wrote yesterday, a blindly naive paragraph, without knowing all of the facts of the Town of Telluride Town Charter.  This charter allows citizens to "force" the Town Council to take action on an initiative, so long as the number of petitioners is at least 5% of the total of the participants in the last election.  In my mind, the Town Council did what they thought was best for the community an voted to pass the initiative right then and there, rather than let this issue take center stage during our next municipal election.  I applaud Mayor John Pryor for his outstanding ability to think on his feet, and for doing everything in his power to get this ridiculous piece of legislation out of sight and out of mind as fast as possible. 

So if you are one of those tourists who is threatening to cancel his vacation, realize that this action was undertaken by a small minority of citizens and is not the sentiment of the Town of Telluride government, not the majority of its residents.  Please come to Telluride!! 

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