Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough are locked in a close runoff for Denver mayor. Ballots go out beginning May 15 and must be returned by election day, June 6. On May 10, it was announced that four more candidates in the mayoral primary have endorsed Johnston, Ean Tafoya, James Walsh, Terrance Roberts, and Al Gardner. …
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On April 5, business lobbyist Micki Hackenberger, who has been covering the general assembly for 24 years, had the unenviable task of telling Arapahoe County Republicans meeting at Maggiano’s DTC that the last time their party “had a place at the political legislative table” was 2017, when they had a U.S. Senator and held three …
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On April 23, former Denver mayoral candidate State Rep. Leslie Herod, who came in fifth out of 17 candidates with 11% of the votes cast in the April 4 primary, endorsed Mike Johnston in the runoff with former mayoral chief of staff and Denver Metro Chamber CEO Kelly Brough. Herod said, “I shared countless debate …
A question-and-answer forum for candidates for Denver mayor sponsored by the Intermountain Jewish News (IJN) and held at the BMH-BJ synagogue in Denver on March 16 drew eight of the remaining 16 contenders (Kwame Spearman dropped out earlier that day). Candidates participating were Kelly Brough, Lisa Caldéron, Chris Hansen, Leslie Herod, Debbie Ortega, Terrance Roberts, …
On November 7, all eight seats in the four city council districts of Greenwood Village will be up for election, as will the office of mayor. In GV, city council terms are only two years long. Council terms for every other city in the metro area (e.g., Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Englewood, Littleton, Lone Tree, …
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On March 1, Greg Lopez, who sought the GOP nomination for Colorado governor in 2018 and 2022, appeared at a gathering for Arapahoe County Republicans, where he announced he had recently been elected president of the Colorado Hispanic Republicans. He told the members of his party, “Hope is not lost. We can turn Colorado red,” …
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At the March 1 meeting of the Arapahoe County Republican Breakfast Club at Maggiano’s DTC, Ben Murrey, fiscal policy director for Jon Caldera’s Independence Institute, used a historical quote from James Madison in, “The Interest of the Man,” as an analogy for today’s Republicans and Democrats. He told the group that when the question was …
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