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12 years in City Hall: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s triumphs and failures
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Outgoing Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, sits down with Denver Gazette for exclusive interviewTom HellauerTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g Denver Mayor Michael Hancock knows what he’ll regret most from his three terms as the most powerful elected leader in Denver: Thanksgiving, 2020, when Hancock was caught traveling in the thick of a raging pandemic despite having urged the public to…
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Denver’s party chairs: 2 women, 2 directions, 2 very different roles
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They are two very different women who hold somewhat similar jobs. One is a former information technology executive who has brought those skills to bear in her role as chair of the Denver Democratic Party. The other is a former conservative radio talk show host who is trying to make the Denver Republican Party relevant…
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Denver’s Mayor Hancock, new council members sworn in
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock vowed on Monday to build a more equitable city after he was sworn in to his third and final term in office. Under a blazing mid-morning sun, Hancock was sworn in along with the 13 City Council members, including five new members. Hancock began his inaugural speech with a line of…
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Ex-Denver mayoral candidate Calderon to be top aide for Councilwoman-elect CdeBaca
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Lisa Calderón lost her bid to become Denver mayor. But she will have a city hall office after all. Calderón announced on her Facebook page Wednesday that she will be working as chief of staff for Candi CdeBaca, the Denver City Councilwoman elect representing Council District 9. “I’m excited to work with Councilwoman-elect CdeBaca to…
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Former Denver mayoral candidate Jamie Giellis undergoes ‘intense’ surgery
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Jamie Giellis, a political newcomer who ran for Denver mayor in the city election this year and in the runoff that followed, underwent surgery Tuesday to correct a tracheal condition that has made breathing difficult. Her former campaign spokesperson Meghan Dougherty said it was understood during the campaign that the surgery would be needed once…
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COPO PODCAST | The inside story of the fierce battle for Denver mayor
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Here’s how the fierce battle that was the Denver mayoral campaign looked like on the inside as told by two of the campaign managers. Sheila MacDonald, who managed the Jamie Giellis campaign, and Jake Martin, who managed the campaign for Mayor Michael Hancock, talked about the campaign on June 5, the day after Hancock prevailed…
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Inside the race for Denver mayor: The campaign managers share perspectives
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The two people who ran the campaigns of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and challenger Jamie Giellis say they went into the runoff election night not knowing if their candidate would win. Hancock’s campaign manager Jake Martin said he had a good feeling based upon the field work that day. But he said the campaign has…
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DENVER RUNOFF 2019 | Hancock says he’ll talk to challenger Giellis about her ideas
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Now that his third and final mayoral election is behind him, Mayor Michael Hancock said he hopes to have a beer sometime soon with his runoff-election challenger Jamie Giellis to talk about some of the ideas she raised during a tough and often intense campaign. “We agreed we’ll sit down and have a conversation when…
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DENVER RUNOFF 2019 | Nearly 24% percent of ballots cast already; heavy last-minute voting possible
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Nearly 24% of the registered voters in Denver had turned in their mail-ballots by late Monday afternoon as a competitive mayoral runoff campaign and several other races drew to a close before Tuesday’s 7 p.m. voting deadline. But Alton Dillard, a spokesman for the Denver Elections Division, cautioned that Denver voters are well-known for casting…
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DENVER CANDIDATES’ SPOUSES: Mary Louise Lee, city’s first lady, on the toll the campaign takes on family life
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Shortly after Mary Louise Lee’s husband, Michael Hancock, was elected mayor of Denver in June 2011, the couple had dinner with former Mayor Wellington Webb and his wife, former first lady Wilma Webb. It was a direct and intimate conversation in which the Webbs, who had lived through 12 years of Wellington as mayor, let…
