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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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April 02, 2011 04:45 PM UTC
24 Comments
Does the run-off take the top 3 or however many is required to get over 50%?
And why not just do IRV so we can have just a single election and save money?
Then the top two go into the runoff. Same with Council elections. . .
If Romer gets 49%, then he and whoever is next go into the runoff.
if it wound up say, 20%, 20%, 15%, 15%, 10%, 10%, 5%, etc., the top two go into the runoff. . .
So great to have you joining us over here.
Over on Denver Pols, a few folks asked you a couple of questions about your “consulting”. For instance, what you had done in your “career” that got you hired as a consultant besides designing some mediocre websites and mostly, trading on your mom’s name and endorsement. You declined to answer me and other posters asking. So here goes nothing, again…
Why are city council candidates paying you? What races have you won? What important roles have you played? What valuable experience do you bring to the table? Basically, why are you being hired for these roles?
As far as I can tell, his mom sells her endorsement and maybe a favorable plug or two in her unfortunately-still-running column in the Denver Post. Can’t see how that is worth it, but whatever.
Does Ben have some sort of history of being the kind of jerk that warrants it, or are you just being rude because he posts under his own name and that means you can more easily find things to criticize?
Ben knows they are, but what is he?
What kind of lamoids stay up late to post about someone’s mother completely out of the blue? Can we expect more “Obomber” and “Lib-yuh” type shit now?
Anyway, their objective has certainly been met. Ben will think twice before answering a simple question every again. (Bwhahaha!)
(Then again, that kind of opinion is why I should not be in charge of COPols.)
I miss the penalty box.
Except for the at-large seats. In that case, the top two finishers win, no matter what their share of the vote.
Forgot to specify that exception. The same runoff principal applies in the other, even less attention grabbing, city wide races though.
the race and serves as a point of reference for future polls. Certainly a PR coup for Colorado’s premier political blog.
The race for second place is wide open but time is running out for some campaigns, like Linkhart’s, as ballots will be mailed on April 14.
I will be voting for Doug Linkhart because of his ideas on fixing the budget and investing in people as a hedge against mushrooming costs for social programs down the road.
It will be interesting to see if can leverage his limited campaign resources to pull off a runoff spot. (Doing more with less.)
No it’s not.
Who do you think places one and two then?
There are six candidates who have no reasonable chance of coming in first or second. It’s not “wide open.”
and nice to see coverage on a local newscast. I did notice that the pay raise was always referred to as a city worker raise while it’s always framed elsewhere as a pay raise for City Council members. Makes the voting themselves a raise aspect just a little less clear.
I’ve seen the Boigon ad they featured and wonder why a Mejia cut out is included with those of her fellow Council members, Linkhart and Hancock, as if he also is a City Council member who voted for the pay increase. Since he isn’t a city Council member at all. that seems like an intentional attempt to create a wrong impression.
Neither Mejia nor Romer voted for the pay raise, though she walks past both their cut-outs. They have identical positions to Boigon’s on the pay raise for elected officials. You’re right, it’s an attempt to create a wrong impression.
yesterday by a major Denver publication comes as no surprise given Romer’s big financial lead and name recognition.
The big media in the city also likes James Mejia and Michael Hancock.
We’ll see, though, if Doug Linkhart can harness his extensive grass roots background to pull off an upset for second place.
The guy with the best name rec followed closely be the guy who does best after that and nods to next up and other candidates the editorial page crowd thinks have a ghost of a chance. Covers all the bases without being terribly helpful to anyone on the fence. Why did they even bother?
Lamest endorsement since the one where they ran an all negative “endorsement” of everything Bush and then endorsed him anyway, in the last sentence or so with don’t change Commander in Chief midstream as the single pro-Bush point, against Kerry. No wonder few take this paper’s endorsements very seriously anymore.
Which was about six paragraphs on what a good Congressman Perlmutter has been and then a tepid “But he votes with the Democrats too much and voters want a change” in favor of Frazier.
They’re so transparent.