yemi mobolade
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Mayor Mobolade responds to Trump’s social media post, drawing thousands of reactions
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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade responded Friday to a video posted on President Donald Trump’s social media account depicting Democratic former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Trump condemned the video, after it drew widespread criticism — including from some Republicans — for dehumanizing people of African descent. The president also…
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Denver, Aurora and Colorado Springs mayors list competency, AI among priorities for legislative session
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The mayors of Colorado’s three largest cities — representing a combined population of about 1.5 million — are urging state lawmakers to tackle some of their communities’ most pressing challenges in the upcoming legislative session, notably in the areas of crime and regulation. In a letter to Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado General Assembly,…
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Combat veteran, author Matt Cavanaugh launches independent challenge to Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th CD
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Army combat veteran and author Matt Cavanaugh on Tuesday launched an independent bid to challenge first-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, predicting that its voters are hungry for an alternative to what he termed the “broken two-party system.” “I’m as unhappy with this same old, broken Washington as everybody else…
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Colorado Springs will challenge state law on accessory dwelling units
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The City Planning Department is drafting an accessory dwelling units (ADUs) law that works for the city and is best for the city and pays less attention to state requirements for ADUs enacted by the legislature earlier this year. According to City Planning Director Kevin Walker, the city planners had been working hard to make…
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Lawsuits accuse Colorado Springs mayor, business partner of non-payment for goods
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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade has been named as a co-defendant in two lawsuits alleging he and a former business partner owe a food distributor nearly $100,000. Phoenix-based Shamrock Foods, a food distributor with six warehouses in Colorado, including Colorado Springs, alleges in separate lawsuits filed earlier this year that Mobolade and Russ Ware, Mobolade’s…
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Lawsuits accuse Colorado Springs mayor, business partner of non-payment for goods
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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade has been named as a co-defendant in two lawsuits alleging he and a former business partner owe a food distributor nearly $100,000. Phoenix-based Shamrock Foods, a food distributor with six warehouses in Colorado, including Colorado Springs, alleges in separate lawsuits filed earlier this year that Mobolade and Russ Ware, Mobolade’s…
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Colorado Springs mayor’s race: 5 factors that influenced Yemi Mobolade’s historic victory
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In his effort to win the Colorado Springs mayor’s seat in Tuesday’s runoff election, entrepreneur Yemi Mobolade had to overcome a blank political resume and grab voters on both sides of the aisle, as well as somewhere in between, to earn their support and drive them to the ballot box. Yemi Mobolade makes Colorado Springs…
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NEWS | Yemi Mobolade to become 42nd mayor of Colorado Springs
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Highlights from Yemi Mobolade’s watch party on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at the COS City Hub in Colorado Springs. According to preliminary, unofficial results, Mobolade defeated Wayne Williams by about 15 percentage points, becoming the city’s first elected Black mayor and the first Colorado Springs mayor who isn’t a registered Republican in the more than…
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Watch party crowd applauds Mobolade
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The crowd at Yemi’s Mobolade’s watch party cheered him on as the first unofficial runoff election results came in. (Video by Breeanna Jent)
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Campaign confusion: former Sheriff Elder acknowledges earlier ‘support’ for Williams, despite endorsement of Mobalade
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One of El Paso County’s formerly highest-ranking officials was seemingly caught between two Colorado Springs mayoral campaigns over the weekend after questions arose about whom he supported in the city’s upcoming mayoral runoff election. Former El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder this weekend formally endorsed Colorado Springs mayoral candidate Yemi Mobolade in the race, about…