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Totally Reasonable UFO Ballot Initiative Rejected by Cheerless Denver Voters

by Amar Toor on November 5, 2010 at 07:20 AM

hippie alienWhat the hell, America? First, your stupid voters deny Massachusetts women the right to go topless in public, and now you've crushed the hopes of space aliens who might, just might, have wanted to drop by Denver for some Rocky Mountain hospitality. The Colorado city has overwhelmingly rejected Initiative 300, which called for the establishment of an Extra Terrestrial Affairs Committee. The initiative's supporters were hoping that the committee could help attract sci-fi tourism to Denver, in the same way that UFO mania has turned Roswell, New Mexico into a mecca for mega-geeks and conspiracy theorists. The rest of the population, however, thought it would just make Denver look stupid. As if!

Initiative 300 may have failed, but that hasn't dampened the ebullient optimism of Jeff Peckham, who organized the citywide campaign for craziness. "It took, what, 18 years for health-care reform to happen," Peckham said. "And how many years for women to get the vote? So some big things take a while to get going." Hear, hear! We want to believe.

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