Rise you rapacious greed-heads! It's another trippy installment of Disinformed where we detail the doomed 1970 campaign for Aspen Sheriff of literary lightning-rod Hunter S. Thompson. Hear about Thompson's attempts to mobilize young disenfranchised voters in a quiet Colorado berg, the death of the American Dream, and how one can artfully lose a battle to effectively win the war. Grab your jackhammers, wolverines, tasers and Meat Possum Presses and meet us at Fat City Limits!!! Mahalo! 

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https://lithub.com/when-hunter-s-thompson-ran-for-sheriff/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen

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https://www.freakpower.com/book/freak-power

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https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/18/20963411/weird-old-laws-historical-obsolete-laws

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