WI: Hunter Thompson elected Sheriff of Aspen, Joe Edwards elected Mayor

So, as he recounted in The Battle of Aspen, Hunter Thompson ran on the "Freak Power" platform that Joe Edwards ran for Mayor of Aspen with, for Sheriff. They lost to a coalition of Democratic and Republicans dedicated to not giving them the office, but the margin was fairly close. What if they had won the election? Would they be able to take Freak Power statewide? Country wide perhaps?
 
They could take it county-wide, perhaps.

I think this would make Aspen a "hippy haven" in a time when hippy culture was in decline, but any real change other than some loosening of drug regulations is impossible.
 
I think this would make Aspen a "hippy haven" in a time when hippy culture was in decline
Yeah, that might be. Aspen is in the mountains, so it could an ideal counterculture location away from more mainstream. Sort of a "Woodstock of the West."

Thinking about it, this might make a good TLIAD or TLIPOT. Just a short timeline discussing the rise of Freak Power. I might do something like that. I just need to read "Battle of Aspen," and do some research.
 
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