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  Tuesday, May 13, 2003



2003 Denver Municipal Runoff Election

Coyote Gulch is sitting in the front row at the Downtown Denver Resident Organization forum. It'll get started around 6:00PM or so I think. Dennis Gallagher and Ed Thomas go first.

Update: The forum was for Mayoral, Auditor, and Council District 9 candidates. Time was short so they skipped questions from the audience. Best line was from Dennis Gallagher. On the subject of campaign financing, raised by Ed Thomas, Gallagher said, "So many things are being said about me that I haven't done I wonder if I'll know myself at the end of the election."

We're here to ask tough questions of the two mayoral candidates if the opportunity presents itself. Tonight I hope to ask the candidates about the environmental effects of infill development on water quality, urban flooding, trash and household chemical disposal and how they plan to shield these important services from the vagaries of politics and budget problems.

So here's an invitation to our readers. Send me e-mail at the link on the left side of the page and I'll try to get your question asked. Post a comment and I'll ask it the next chance I have. I plan to attend most of these get togethers until June 3rd. Right now I have connectivity but these things can be flaky.
5:42:28 PM     



2003 Denver Municipal Runoff Election

Here's today's link to The Stump from the Rocky Mountain News.

Short opinion piece from the Rocky on the election.
5:46:37 AM     



2003 Denver Mayoral Runoff Election

Update: CD 104 reports this morning that Penfield Tate has called a press conference for 11:45AM to announce his endorsement. The radio station thinks he'll back John Hickenlooper.

Don Mares kicked off the runoff by jogging through Northeast Denver while John Hickenlooper started out by walking in Five Points according to the Denver Post. No surprise here. Penfield Tate carried Northeast Denver and both candidates want to pick up his voters. Voters in Northeast Denver generally turn out for elections. The Post quotes political science professor, Dan Smith as saying, "While Hickenlooper tries to work on voters who didn't support him last week, Smith said, Mares will benefit most from generating high turnout in areas where he already has strong backing." Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News on Don Mares running and John Hickenlooper buying flowers.

The Rocky Mountain News has an article explaining the financing arrangements about a LoDo project that John Hickenlooper was involved in. They point out that negative information about the project is not coming from Don Mares' campaign but that one negative ad that ran before the general election uses some of the same allegations that Mares' has talked about. From the Rocky, "Mayoral candidate John Hickenlooper has been accused of snagging millions for a real estate deal, of getting rich off taxpayers and of failing to deliver promises made in a development deal ... But an examination of scores of documents don't back up the charges that Hickenlooper failed to deliver or benefitted unfairly from government subsidies. And DURA officials question the allegations as well."

The Rocky has another story defending John Hickenlooper, this time against Don Mares' charge that he's really a Republican not a Democrat. Mares is quoted again yesterday saying, ""Look at budget cuts, the first words out of John's mouth were cutting employees and looking at employee benefits. My first words were examining lawyers and lobbyists' contracts." The Rocky lists a few Democratic supporters for both candidates.

Mayor Webb has not endorsed a candidate but people close to him keep taking jabs at Don Mares. The Denver Post quotes Andrew Wallach as saying, "The concern is he's leading people to believe that reductions in compensation and benefits is an arbitrary decision, that we're inflicting unnecessary pain on city employees." Counters Mares, "You owe an obligation to the taxpayers and the workers to go after these (outside) expenditures first." It's not fun being a city employee these days.

The Rocky continues it's editorial campaigning for John Hickenlooper. Here's the link to Vincent Carroll's editorial that appeared in the Rocky last Saturday.
5:19:49 AM     



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