By Max R. Weller
Not now, nor has he ever been at any time in the past, despite his status as the Daily [Asswipe’s] homeless pet and the former darling of Carriage House/Bridge House and its benighted leadership, including Joy Eckstine and George Epp. See this article. Quoting from it below:
Budd, a former [Carriage House] employee who had been homeless for 25 years, founded BOHO in 2009 as an alternative shelter to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. But Nancy Brinks, board chairwoman of BOHO, said Budd has not been involved with the program since 2010, and, according to the arrest warrant, Budd is again living on the streets.
About 80% of those who are defined as “homeless” are on the streets no longer than one month. Not 25 years, and not even the 10 years of homelessness chalked up by the Homeless Philosopher himself.
Obviously, Mr. Budd has his own demons which continue to rule his life and cause him to harm innocent people who have the misfortune to cross his path. We can hope that the victim in this case gets all the support she needs in the healing process, and that she will pursue justice to the fullest extent of the law. (Note that I refuse to qualify any statement by referring to “allegations”).
The Daily [Asswipe] also made quite a fuss about the Campsite Crapper, back in 2011 when he briefly ran for Boulder City Council. After I exposed his coprophilia and pathological lying on the community blog I wrote for that newspaper at the time, the editor went so far as to demand that I edit or delete my factual statement that the perv had engaged in his weird behavior at my campsite, to which he was an uninvited and most unwelcome intruder. Yes, I witnessed it. The Daily [Asswipe] didn’t have the integrity to tell the truth about Ron Chase, nor did they wish to stand up to the criticism leveled at me by Chase’s supporters from Carriage House/ Bridge House. That’s the main reason I moved my blog on homelessness to its present website.
As far as I’m concerned, the local media as a whole has engaged in a fraud against the unsuspecting public — attempting to portray both Ron Chase and Jim Budd as homeless men who are representative of the majority.
It’s a damnable lie. We can be thankful that it isn’t true . . . And I don’t want to hear from any apologists. It’s been said of Mussolini that he made the trains run on time — so what? On balance, he was an evil bastard.
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