January 06, 2010 10:31 AM UTC

Hickenlooper Truth Movement

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• by: Skip Tracey

You elevated John Hickenlooper to political sainthood in Ritter Ends Re-Election Campaign. The HickTruther movement starts now.

1. He has pissed off city law enforcement. Recent raise reductions aren’t sitting well with the DPD. The sheriffs don’t like Hick after clashing over pay, firings and arrest powers. Police are the most powerful union in the city, and McInnis is a former cop. Who do you think will win support of Denver law enforcement?

2. You think Hick’s contempt for unions will attract support from Republicans, unaffiliateds and business community. Will they support him when they see how liberal his record is? He spends more on services for the homeless while cutting back on public safety. He spends more on publicizing green initiatives while cutting back on street repair and snowplowing. On his watch, Denver has become the capital of cannabis. He’s Obama’s biggest fan, forever the mayor who oversaw Obama’s coronation at the DNC. Hick’s administration brought you the Demon Blue Horse at the airport and the bloody penis-bag sculpture at the Highlands bridge. He’s hosting the Biennial of the Americas this summer to change the debate about illegal immigration into a conference of cultural sharing. You think that makes Hick more appealing to voters who lean conservative. Good luck with that.

3. Hick is not a fiscal conservative. He is a habitual tax raiser. Hick won major new taxes in Denver, a preschool tax, millions$ in the Alphabet bond campaign, along with support for statewide tax hikes. All that happened in better economic times. Now, his administration is planning for city taxpayers to back bonds for an extra billion $$$ to reconfigure DIA. Hick has been spending millions in stormwater tax funds to pay for projects unrelated to stormwater. Hick is not a fiscal conservative. He is a tax-and-spend-and-tax-again liberal.

4. Don’t think you can count on the enthusiastic support of liberal Denver voters, either. Hick plans to privatize public recreation centers in poor neighborhoods, sell out the public parks to event promoters, including turning civic center park into a private movie theater for a month this summer. Concerns about contaminated water in public parks go unheeded, lake ducks die by hundreds but all Hick cares about is fixing the light-up fountain so he can show DNC delegates. He’s a mayor of the rich and powerful, not the ordinary people.

5. Hickenlooper is the epitome of the hollow, hopechange, corporate, liberalguilt Democrat Party, more so than Ritter ever was, wanting to be liked and never risking to make a principled stand. Outside the downtown beautiful people circuit, he has no base.

Truth hurts.