runoff election
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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 3’s Jamie Torres
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Jamie Torres, councilwoman-elect for Denver’s District 3. District 3, the West Denver area that Jamie Torres was elected to serve on the City Council, is a bit different from some of the other districts that chose new council members in the June 4 runoff election. As with all those districts, the issues of housing and…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 10’s Chris Hinds
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Newly elected Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds won’t have to wait until he is sworn in on July 15 to bring about change at City Hall. It’s already happening. Hinds, who defeated incumbent Wayne New in a June 4 runoff election, believes he will be the first-ever city councilman who uses a wheelchair to get…
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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 mayoral rivals spar over familiar issues in final runoff debate
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Like two fighters who’ve sparred so long they anticipate each other’s moves, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and challenger Jamie Giellis ended their series of mayoral runoff debates Tuesday with a flurry of jabs over issues of race, sexual harassment and homelessness. Not much new ground was broken during the hour-long debate, hosted by The Denver…
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Denver mayor candidates swap sharp exchanges in Aaron Harber Show debate
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock accidentally dropped a drinking glass that shattered at the beginning of a Denver mayoral debate with challenger Jamie Giellis during the taping of the Aaron Harber Show on Friday afternoon. One shard caused a slight cut to Giellis’ foot and host Harber handed her a tissue. And plenty of verbal sharp…
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COPO PODCAST: Denver mayoral race comes down to how choice is framed, say experts
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The runoff for Denver mayor is coming down to a question of who can best frame the race in the closing days of the campaign, according to two experts on local politics. If challenger Jamie Gillies can portray the vote as a referendum on residents’ anxiety and concerns over how Mayor Michael Hancock has managed…
