Doris Beaver’s
EYE ON GILPIN COUNTY . . . 			
December 26, 2011  
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL! 
   For those missing last week's edition, in retrospect, it seemes worthwhile to say it again!!!
Voters in Colorado have their say in the voting booth, but it seems the ink on the certification of the results is hardly dry before legislators or the powers that disagree with the vote are out to do an end run around what voters voted against. 
   In 1976, voters wisely rejected a bond issue to fund having the Olympics in Colorado. Now, an exploratory committee is looking at reviving that idea. 
   Very little if any progress has been made in solving the massive congestion problems of I-70 that growth has brought since that date. Obviously, those stoking the idea of the Olympics are clueless of just how precarious Colorado’s transportation routes through the state are.  Basically, there are two:  one east-west known as I-70; second, north-south known as I-25.  Even if a miraculous cure is delivered from on high, the problems could not be solved by the opening date of the 2022 Olympics. 
   How will they get around bringing the idea to a vote of the people of Colorado – people whose lives would be totally disrupted? What else, by going after private funding. Thus you, ordinary Colorado citizen, will have no say in such an undertaking – an undertaking that only furthers the careers of that very small elite segment of the athletic world that can afford to train full time and do not have to work for a living as ordinary Colorado citizens do! Of course, there’s also those ever-sought tourist dollars.
   The hair-brained idea should be shot down before it takes flight!!! 
Mark Twain once said:  “The rule is perfect – in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”  
Doris Beaver