Reply #2: As Always, the Most Interesting Parts of the Article are at the Bottom

[NashVegas]

Aspen's wars were strictly cultural.

"The freaks - us - we weren't welcome here," recalled Bob Braudis, who moved to Aspen in 1969, leaving behind corporate New York to ski.

Now the Pitkin County sheriff, Braudis reflected: "There are an awful lot of graduates of the freak movement making decisions in government today."
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Erhard - now retired in Dean's adopted home state - recalls nearly falling out of a ski-lift chair when she learned that the same Howard Dean who had cleaned dishes for her in Aspen more than a decade earlier had become the lieutenant governor in 1986.

"Several years later (after leaving Aspen), he did write a letter to my husband and me thanking us," she said. "It was a touching letter about how we helped him reach for excellence the year he worked for us."

She resented, however, that in all of his years in Vermont politics, Dean never came to visit the couple at their new restaurant, also called the Golden Horn, which she said was a political hangout for state elected officials.