"It's up for grabs, the power": Denver Mayor Michael Hancock facing 9 challengers in 2019 election

[TexasTowelie]

“It’s up for grabs, the power”: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock facing 9 challengers in 2019 election — so far


One year ago, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock knew that his second re-election run would be difficult.

“You make decisions. You lead. You upset people,” he told The Denver Post in 2017. “I expect it. Anytime you look at mayors who run for their third or final term, it’s usually more challenging than the second.”

How right he was.

In the last 12 months, Hancock’s opponents in the May 2019 election have multiplied: Nine people are campaigning for his job, and the political season is aflame months earlier than usual in Denver. Hancock finds himself challenged from all sides in a race that could be just as busy and contentious as his first mayoral election in 2011.

“The reality is, you have a record, and everybody’s going to take a shot at that record,” he said in an interview last week. But he’s ready, he said: His focus has grown sharper, he has grown accustomed to criticism and he believes that Denver in the last seven years has grown into a “great city” that “cares for her people.”

Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/12/26/denver-mayor-michael-hancock-challengers-so-far/

[Just a Weirdo]

1. I live in the city

Hancock has to go. I am glad there are 9 challengers.