mayoral campaign
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Denver’s realtors group grills mayoral candidates on rental home licensure, inspection ordinance
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The Denver Metro Association of Realtors on Thursday grilled seven Denver mayoral candidates about the city’s new rental home registration ordinance, some of whom argued that the new rule has been a disaster and should be repealed. The ordinance, which took effect this year, requires landlords to get a residential rental property license – after…
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Denver City Council considers charter change to create transportation department
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Denver voters will be asked to approve a charter change creating a new Department of Transportation and Infrastructure under a bill to be introduced at Monday night’s city council meeting. The measure would create a cabinet-level position to oversee such things as transportation design, infrastructure project management, right-of-way enforcement and the city’s bicycle network. Under…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 9’s Candi CdeBaca
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Denver Councilwoman-elect Candi CdeBaca, who will represent council District 9, is shown outside The Denver Press Club on June 12, 2019.John C. Ensslin / Colorado Politics Denver City Councilwoman-elect Candi CdeBaca said she believes the five new council members elected this spring have the potential to change the dynamic between the governing body and the…
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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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CoPo interview: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock previews his 3rd term
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Big-city mayors sometimes grow stale in their third term. Policies stall out. Controversies creep in. And before they know it, someone else is running for their job as their term limit approaches. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said Wednesday that he’s determined not to let that happen to him. “I’m a guy who, I promise you,…
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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 | Scenes from the mayoral campaign (GALLERY)
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What a campaign season this year’s Denver municipal election has been. The campaign featured big complex issues like homelessness, affordable housing, growth and development, traffic congestion and, yes, even magic mushrooms. After millions in campaign spending, hundreds of volunteer hours, lots of debates and candidate forums, it all comes down to a very competitive race…
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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…
