Arn Menconi is a long-haired,
snowboarding liberal Democrat on the three member Board of Commissioners of
Eagle County, Colorado. He squeaked into office last year, defeating the
Republican candidate by only 39 votes.
In the wake of the
September 11, 2001 terrorism attack, local governments around the country passed well-meaning but meaningless
resolutions supporting and condemning various things. The resolution taken up by the Eagle County board supported the war in
Afghanistan, and Mernconi refused to vote for it because he is an ardent
pacifist. He is now the target of a
recall petition effort spearheaded by a local
Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter.
In
1993, he founded the
Snowboard Outreach Society (http://www.sosoutreach.org/), a non-profit organization which helps at-risk children by steering their energies towards snowboarding.
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