Let's see.
Very publicly exposed in a negative light on inner handling of employee operations. Loss of business, guests and most importantly, community and peer respect.
Deterioration of worker environment to the point that caustic email and dissolving of group relationships are thrust into the public eye, including gossip fodder of the day. Pretty much every day and anywhere.
And those are just the effects the Aspen Ski Corp. and Crown family go through and are responsible for as a result of this 'ban' 'on the infamous Lee Mulcahy'.
And then there's the small issue of literally being mocked in the public eye by their 'landlord':
Scott Condon:
"...Stark said he felt the dispute probably had a simple solution. He didn't see how Skico could prevent Mulcahy from having a friend purchase a day ticket, dress so he couldn't be easily identified then hit the slopes. Skico officials said if Mulcahy did that, they would eventually catch him, according to Stark.
The Forest Service also concluded that Mulcahy couldn't access public lands of the ski areas without crossing Skico's private property at the base areas and private lands mixed in on the slopes.
“I think it's within their rights” to ban Mulcahy, Stark said...." (Read more? Click title)
All this for the sake of bruised egos and continued power over one man who simply desires to ski in his local area.
One has to wonder how much more needs to be given up by Mulcahy. Maybe erecting a set of public stocks somewhere in downtown Aspen (that isn't Crown owned) and placing himself into them.
Maybe that will be enough.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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lol! -looks like i could use a good lawyer... in this legal battle. lone tea partier/whistleblower vs. big $ Chicago General Dyanmics carpetbagging familia. david vs. GOLIATH. in the mean time, here's some comedy:
"Just returned from art class at SAIC. [school of the art institute of chicago]. had brithday breakfast this morning with gal pals dressed as barbie. check out aspen ideas festival...."-tweet, Paula Crown
"Watch out, I'm blogging now. How's your Aspen? @ heidizj: Good move, Heidi."-AspenSnowCEO
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Dear Mike,
Despite our differences, we both love teaching skiing & our community. Although I have to ROFL when local earls & countesses line up to pay $10,000.00 to meet barefoot Michelle Obama at the castle General Dynamics built four blocks from my Communist public housing house. Rome in the 4th Quarter or Versailles?
These days our politicians are just blowhards; whereas, our Revolutionary forefathers deeply respected a good fight: Vice President Burr fatally wounded former Secretary of Treasury Hamilton in a High Noon dueling shootout.
Taking inspiration from the Roger Marolt/Aspen Times and Lo Semple/Aspen Daily News current ski-OFF: Why not a Mulcahy/Kaplan Wild West flip-OFF at the base of Aspen? Set up bleachers & the Old Guard could come…use the Little Nell suite above Ajax Tavern as a VIP section for Heidi’s Aspen Art Museum crowd? Cheerleaders?---would Heidi & Paula bring pom-poms and go all Dallas Cowboys for you?
It’ll be hilarious: CEO vs. peon.
BIG $$$ vs. white trash.
Chicago North Shore vs. Fort Worth, Texas.
Audi driving Master of the Skico Universe vs. pick-up driving Skico whistleblower.
Aspen Institute green “limousine liberal” vs. “Don’t tread on me” NRA/Tea Party occupier.
Castle Creek free market DU MBA vs. Burlingame public housing unionizer Sorbonne-attending PhD.
Ski vs. snowboard.
Elite 1% vs. 99%.
Or a moguls contest on AH’s Scarlett’s instead of all this legal stuff. Man to man. It would be so in line with Aspen's history. But if I win, Skico has to pay more than $9.25/hr. u call a “living wage” here & … I get my job back. Full disclosure: I was freestyle aerial certified. But I'll even flip on a snowboard and u can use those skis Roger Marolt pokes fun of u about.
These protests all over the world have the same message: Hey, 1%! Be fair. Treat us with dignity.
And that's the paradox of the public space, everyone may kind of know something unpleasant, but once someone says it, it changes everything.
Therefore, I cannot resist: Paula Crown, PhD candidate at the Art Institute of Chicago, is on President Obama's arts council; Michelle has lunch at Paula’s palace; General Dynamics, a merchant of death, and Wall Street's JP Morgan Chase are prosperous.
What was the name of that Dan Sheridan song Skico has banned? “Big $”?
28th amendment already?
So back to skiing, AspenSnowCEO, are you in?
This is almost as good of an idea for tourism and economic development as Jeremy Madden's "Running of the Bears" idea last year.
Could even become an annual event that may have to take the place of X-Games if the Skico doesn't pull their head out and get down on their knees and grovel at ESPN pretty soon.
The Kaplan suit is historical. I admire Lee's courage. Kaplan will lose that suit even after he and the Skico try to show all Lee's comments in the public are so-called slander to them. Big, big difference in what Kaplan did and it's called tort liability. As far as I'm concerned, Lee Mulcahy just racked up his second major win against Aspen Ski Corp.
The first was his living wage and all of the NLRB victory that never does get explained right in local press for how significant historic it is.
Let's see what you've got, Mike. Some action where your mouth can't go.
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