40% Off SPRING! Sale All Back Issue Comics Imperial Court Election News
Howdy!
I want to begin today's newsletter with some news from the comics world, and then move on to a
personal request. I will start off, however, by letting you know that our
exclusive Mile High Comics variant edition of STAR WARS (2015) #45
will be releasing next Wednesday. As has always been the case, you can advance order up to three
copies at only $19.95 each. Once the issue is actually in-house, the price rises to $24.95. The print
run on this exclusive variant is limited to only 3,000 copies worldwide, which makes it one of the scarcest
STAR WARS comics ever published. We are also very proud of the fact that our
STAR WARS (2015) variant series
is now the longest-running group of variants ever created in the history of comics. Woo!
Exclusive Mile High Comics variant edition of STAR WARS (2015) #45
My second bit of comics news is that we have how worked through about half of the huge backlog of orders
that we accumulated through our big sale at the beginning of the month. Once that we break through the last
of that backlog, we will be quickly catching back up. If you do have an order upon which you are still awaiting
shipping confirmation, please be patient for a little while longer. We should be caught up soon. In the meantime,
we do have a very generous 40% off SPRING! codeword sale in effect for you on all ten million of our
back issue comics and magazines
that we offer on our website. Only new issues, a few variants, and our professionally-graded comics are excluded
from this annual sale to celebrate the return of warm weather. Will and Pam have been adding a slew of great
back issues into
New-In-Stock
and
Premium New-In-Stock
this week, with an especially dynamic list of new arrivals scheduled to be uploaded on Friday morning.
Princess LaShay DiMarco
Leaving the comics world now and getting much more personal for the rest of this newsletter, I would request that
anyone living in Colorado north of Castle Rock (who is 16 years old, or older) please set aside a few minutes
on Saturday morning, March 24th (a week from this Saturday), to cast a vote in the
Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire annual election of Monarchs. I was originally an aspirant to become a
candidate for this year's Emperor title, but last month by a vote of 11-2 the ICRME Board of Directors deemed
me to be unfit to represent the Court, and thus denied me the right to even have my name printed on the ballot.
I could go into excruciating detail about the motivations behind this denial, but none of that information would
be either productive, or kind. Suffice it to say that I love the ICRME as an institution, and regardless of the
shabby way in which the BOD has treated me as an aspirant for Emperor 45, I will continue to actively support
our group's mission.
All of the above having been said, there are two compelling reasons for you to visit the voting center in
Denver's Cheeseman Park on March 24th. The first is that my partner from Reign 42, Princess LaShay DiMarco, was narrowly
allowed by the BOD to run for Empress 45. I worked very closely with LaShay for all of Reign 42, and I will guarantee
you that, if elected Empress, she will work tirelessly over the next year to help the poor and disadvantaged of Colorado.
Even during her busiest moments LaShay has continued to work for the past two years as a volunteer for
"Feeding Denver's Hungry",
helping every two weeks with our food distributions, rain or shine. The ICRME truly needs a reigning Empress for
the next year who understands that leading a 501-C3 charity means sometimes getting your hands dirty in order to help
the poorest of our citizens. I believe that LaShay DiMarco is the perfect person to reign as Empress 45.
Chuck in his Emperor 45 campaign T-Shirt
The second reason for you to show up at the ICRME voting on the 24th is to help me to show the BOD that a
significant number of people in our Community are upset by the fact that their unilateral actions denied so many
people in Colorado the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. By restricting this year's election for
Emperor 45 to only one hand-picked candidate favored by the Board, the BOD has effectively wiped out the voting
rights of every person in Northern Colorado who does not favor that same person.
What makes this blatant exclusion of anyone but their hand-picked candidate even more egregious is that the
candidate that the BOD (unanimously) approved has not served the ICRME in a line capacity in 25 years, raised
any money for charity but the absolutely minimum required to run, has not given hardly any theatrical performances
in our charity functions, and has only traveled to a handful of the Coronations of the 69 other Courts that constitute
the International Court System.
Meanwhile, I served the ICRME tirelessly over the last seven years formally becoming a line member first as a
Citizen of the Realm to Reign 40, Don and Czar to Reign 41, and Prince Royale to Reign 42.
During those Reigns, I
personally put on charity events that raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000.00 for the numerous 501-C3
organizations that rely upon the ICRME for funding. I have also traveled to nearly 40 out-of-realm Coronations,
including 16! out-of-realm Coronations during just this past year. In addition, I have performed dozens of times to
help ICRME to raise money for charity, both in my primary role as a male performer, and also once a year as Bettie Pages,
my drag persona. Simply put, I could not have given any more to help ICRME, and yet the Board of Directors still chose
to deem me to be unfit to lead them as Emperor 45.
Setting the remarkable inequity of what they have done to me aside for a second, the single most important reason
for you to visit the ICRME polls on election day is to let them know that you will not quietly lay down and accept
their banning you from voting future ICRME elections. As crazy as this sounds, the ICRME Board of Directors has
recently floated the idea to the ICRME College of Monarchs that they which to consider a motion at the next Board meeting
to stop letting anyone vote in ICRME elections for Emperor and Empress who is not a paid dues member. This is not to
say, of course, that they will not still actively solicit everyone in the Community to donate money and attend charity
events put on by the ICRME, but rather that they just don't want non-members to ever again have a voice in how the
organization is run, regardless of how much work that they have done, or how much money that they have contributed. I
don't know about you, but I find this proposal quite upsetting.
Chuck's Emperor 45 campaign button
So what can you do to stand with me? If you live outside of Colorado, or south of Castle Rock, I would ask that you
please print out a color copy of my
Emperor 45 campaign button,
and have someone take a picture of you with it pinned
to your shirt or dress. Then forward that picture to me at chuckrozanski@gmail.com. I will be inserting all of those
photos of my out-of-realm supporters into a special Facebook post on my personal page. If you do live in the Northern
Colorado area, please stop by our
Jason St. Mega-Store,
and pick up one of my free campaign buttons. Not only are they
cool collectibles, but if you go to vote, your wearing my button would send a symbolic message to everyone at the polls
that excluding me from the ballot did not silence my supporters.
Here is how you vote:
Voting is 11 AM - 6 PM on March 24th at the
C.H.U.N (Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods) Community Center,
13th and
Williams St. Denver. The C.H.U.N. Center is tucked away on the Cheeseman Park side of 13th, but still easy to find.
To vote you only need to be 16, or older, and have a picture I.D. that shows that you have a home address north of
Castle Rock. Voting typically takes less than five minutes, and the
White Rose Scholarship
Committee runs an awesome
bake sale each year for voters.
Because parking can be a difficulty near Cheeseman Park on a Saturday, I have rented a 30-passenger shuttle bus to
transport folks who want to vote over to the C.H.U.N. center very quickly and easily. Driving time will depend on traffic,
but I am guessing that a shuttle will leave
Jason St.
for the polls every 40-50 minutes. If you come to vote, please
bring family and friends! While my name will not be on the ballot (nor will they allow me to be written in...), at least
we can get LaShay elected, and show the BOD that the Community cares.
Happy collecting!
Chuck Rozanski,
President - Mile High Comics, Inc.
March 15, 2018
Chuck's Emperor 45 campaign T-Shirt
P.S. Anticipating that a few folks may want to own one of my cool campaign shirts, or a spiffy
Avanyu button,
I have
asked Will Moulton to create inventory records on our website for this items . Shirts are available in sizes from
Small - XXXL
for $20 postpaid, and
buttons
are $5 postpaid, both of which are close to my exact cost. Please bear in mind,
however, that my candidacy is officially over, so the shirts and buttons are purely symbolic. Also, I will only have just
as many manufactured as I get requests over the next week. Thank you very much for all your kindness, and all the support
that you have given me in my charitable efforts of the past seven years. You are wonderful!
Current Newsletter
|