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.
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