Downtown Denver Does Not Have a Vagrant Problem... Really

As I had expected the moment the Democratic National Committee chose Denver for the '08 convention, the city is scrambling to get the unsightly homeless off the streets of downtown to give the Democratic lovers of the impoverished and downtrodden a happy experience in August. They're trying to bait them with big-screen TVs at homeless shelters and free passes to the zoo (where they can annoy the locals) to keep them off of downtown streets and away from the cash cow of wandering liberals. Fat chance. Undoubtedly, if all else fails, expect a repeat of former mayor Wellington Webb's old strong-arm tactic of simply harassing them, such as was done when a container town near the Platte River was torn down to make way for loft construction in Lower Downtown. Expect territorial clashes in Civic Center Park between drug dealers and winos and the Marxist ReCreate 68 interlopers who plan on building an illegal tent city there.

We still haven't heard how the city will handle unwitting visitors wandering into Ted Haggard's old stomping ground, East Colfax. Guard your wallets and guard your loins.



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