A new sheriff in town — almost? Hunter S. Thompson’s longtime friend selling campaign poster

A new sheriff in town — almost? Hunter S. Thompson’s longtime friend selling campaign poster

After spending most of the 1970s in Aspen during the peak of the counterculture movement, Ross “Jagmo” Honhart found himself in Jimmy Buffet’s apartment in Key West, Florida, meeting someone he’d heard of for years: Hunter S. Thompson. It was 1977.  On Christmas Day in Aspen, 1993, Thompson signed and gifted a “Hunter Thompson for Sheriff” poster to Honhart, which he now looks to sell. “Now that it’s over 30 years later, I guess it’s time for me…