…Lori Winner, that is. Make that Lori Lively Winner, which is what she goes by on Twitter. The community activist and former Pueblo City Council member – she’s also a nurse and a pilates/yoga instructor – became the sixth Puebloan last week to enter the running for that city’s newly resurrected post of mayor.

You’ll recall the citizens of the Steel City passed a ballot measure last fall reinstating the position after at least a half century and endowing it with superpowers that promise to be the envy of the City Council. Notably, the mayor gets to run the joint as the city’s full-time chief exec, replacing the city manager. It’s a “strong mayor” form of local government – the kind implemented long ago in Denver and adopted by voters in Colorado Springs in 2010.

Winner isn’t the only non-establishment contender in the running, but given her two-year tenure on council and her social media presence, she does seem to be the populist with the highest profile. Reports the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper:

Two years ago, Lori Winner was elected to an at-large Pueblo City Council seat after being a thorn in the side of the city administration with her social media posts about dilapidated houses and trash-filled yards the city should fix.

She spent her time on council pushing for tougher code enforcement and even getting the city to put nearly $700,000 in uncollected property liens onto the property owners’ tax bills for timely collection.

Winner tells Roper:

“I’ve heard some people say that I was only about code enforcement … But I was out there campaigning for hiring more police last year, paying for yard signs and getting the (public safety) ballot question passed.”

The other declared mayoral candidates are:

Pueblo voters will pick their new mayor in next November’s general election – unless a second, runoff election is necessary. The mechanics of that process haven’t yet been decided by the City Council; it’s kind of a work in progress. You can read a recap of that issue here.