mayoral election
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Colorado Springs city election: Key dates and a look at what’s next ahead of mayoral runoff election
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About a week after Colorado Springs’ April 4 municipal election, city clerk’s officials are still accepting a small number of ballots before certifying and announcing final results by Friday. The ‘post-election period’ During this “post-election” period, City Clerk Sarah Johnson’s office is accepting, but not yet processing, ballots from military and overseas residents through 5…
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Leslie Herod shares plans to build on 80 city-owned vacant lots in Denver
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As if on cue, a city of Denver pickup truck Wednesday rolled on to an empty, city-owned lot to tell a group of people in a homeless encampment they had to pack up their belongings and move to another location within two hours. The truck arrived during a Rep. Leslie Herod press conference on housing…
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The frontrunners? | 2023 DENVER MAYOR’S RACE
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The Denver mayoral candidates’ latest fundraising reports offered a glimpse into the viability of the two dozen or so candidates hoping to succeed Mayor Michael Hancock, but the race remains incredibly difficult to handicap, including who might be leading the pack, longtime political observers say. That said, a few candidates appear to meet what typically…
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State Sen. Chris Hansen enters Denver mayor’s race
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Colorado state Sen. Chris Hansen is joining the crowded field of candidates hoping to become the next mayor of Denver in 2023. Hansen, D-Denver, filed paperwork Monday morning to enter the mayor’s race. He follows around a dozen other candidates into the race, including state Rep. Leslie Herod, director of Emerge Colorado Lisa Calderón, longtime Denver City Councilwoman…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 1’s Amanda Sandoval
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Denver Councilwoman-elect Amanda SandovalCourtesy Amanda Sandoval for Council Denver Councilwoman-elect Amanda Sandoval remembers a lesson she learned from her dad – legendary North Denver power broker Paul Sandoval – when she was in high school and working in the family restaurant. Back then there was a homeless man living behind the restaurant in Denver’s Berkeley…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 5’s Amanda Sawyer
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Amanda Sawyer, Denver City councilwoman-elect, representing the city’s 5th District.(Courtesy photo) Former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill once famously declared that “all politics is local,” back in 1935 when he first ran for public office. Newly-elected Denver City Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer is a living example of that adage. Sawyer, a 40-year-old lawyer and mother of…
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COPO PODCAST | Denver Mayor Michael Hancock talks about plans for his 3rd term
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On the morning after winning a third term, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock talked about his plans for the next four years during a Colorado Politics podcast interview in his office. Hancock talked about addressing issues such as homelessness, housing affordability, wage stagnation and construction at Denver International Airport. He also discussed how he hopes to…
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Denver mayoral candidate Giellis missed voting in 10 city elections since 2006
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Jamie Giellis, a candidate for Denver mayor, has not voted in 10 of the 22 municipal elections that have occurred since she moved to the city in 2006, according to a Colorado Politics review of city election records. Giellis, a former president of the River North Arts District, voted in 12 elections during that time…
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Candidates, start your engines: Denver ballots head to a mailbox near you
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This is what democracy sounds like: the thrum of engines and the beeping of forklift trucks rolling backward as Denver’s 420,000 mail ballots arrived by the truckload on Monday morning. The ballots – printed by K&H Printing, an Everett, Washington, firm that specializes in mail ballots – glided in the General Mail Facility in Denver…
