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I’m in Denver, Colorado, which I’ve not visited since my climbing days in the Rockies 25 years ago.
Colorado is considered by many to be a “liberal” US state, especially for the Mountain State area. It just elected the first openly gay governor in US history, the Democrat Jared Polis, who also happens to be Jewish. Polis will be the second Jewish governor after the 2018 midterms, the other being JB Pritzker, the billionaire Clintonite Democrat whose family founded the Hyatt hotel chain, who will become governor of Illinois.
Colorado was the first state to legalize marijuana. Alas, due to my asthma, I can neither smoke nor inhale.
I wondered if I’d come across that famous “non-inhaler” Bill Clinton on Denver’s streets exploring its marijuana shops while I was here, but this closest approximation to a presidential lounge lizard (among other things), was possibly “cavorting lewdly”– a phrase used by the late Alex Cockburn to describe Bill’s trysts at the nightclub of the Little Rock Hilton when he was governor of Arkansas—somewhere else.
Or else Slick Willy is currently doing more or less serious prep for the fatuous nationwide-tour Hillary and he are about to embark upon, intended to signal her Sisyphean entry into the 2020 presidential race.
As one of the larger US cities, Denver is fairly impressive.
Its mayor Michael Hancock is African-American, the second African-American to hold this post, in a city that…