Tag: Mayoral Candidates
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Aurora holds multilingual candidate forum in nine languages
Aurora candidates for City Council and mayor spoke to a room of people in headsets and nine translators at a multilingual candidate forum Thursday, during which candidates largely addressed issues — like housing prices and resources for immigrants and refugees — that are specific to the Ward I community. The forum, hosted by the Grassroots Leadership…
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Aurora mayoral candidate admits to misdemeanor during debate
One of Aurora’s three mayoral candidates admitted during a debate on Thursday to a misdemeanor charge that occurred in the 1980s. Jeffrey Sanford, who is in a three-way race for mayor with Councilmember Juan Marcano and incumbent Mayor Mike Coffman, said he was young and in the military at the time, and “got out of…
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Denver’s Mayoral race is crowded, but it’s not the only one
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Almost 50 names will appear on the City of Denver’s April 4 ballot across several different municipal offices. The 17 candidates remaining for mayor (there was as many as 26) will be accompanied by nine city council at-large candidates and 23 others in an election…
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Denver mayoral candidate Kelly Brough outlines plans to improve public safety
When mayoral candidate Kelly Brough laid out her “community safety policy” platform at a press conference last week, she purposefully picked two seemingly disparate supporters to stand with her — a former longtime police officer and a police reform advocate who worked at the ACLU. The message she’s trying to send voters is her experience in…
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Denver mayoral candidate Mike Johnston pledges to end homelessness in first term
In an ambitious promise, Denver mayoral candidate Mike Johnston pledged to end homelessness by the end of his first term. Accomplishing that goal, he said, is contingent on a coordinated attack on overlapping challenges that are fueling homelessness. Homelessness has spiraled out of control in Colorado in the last several years. Today, almost 7,000 people are…
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Tattered Cover CEO Kwame Spearman joins packed Denver mayoral race
Kwame Spearman, Tattered Cover CEO and longtime Colorado resident, has filed to join Denver’s packed mayoral race. Spearman’s name is listed on the Denver Campaign Finance Dashboard, where mayoral candidate names appear. Spearman joins a long list of more than two dozen candidates vying for the important city position, including State Rep. Leslie Herod, former…