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  by: Colorado Pols March 28, 2023 at 8:07 AM MDT

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

–Upton Sinclair

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  1. 2Jung2Die says:
    March 28, 2023 at 9:18 AM MDT

    Turnout in Denver municipal elections is still less than 6% with a week to go, per this pretty good story from Denverite. On a more positive note, by reading this story I learned of a civic engagement organization called "Warm Cookies of the Revolution."

    • TigerInBlueDenver says:
      March 28, 2023 at 1:54 PM MDT

      Oh, "Warm Cookies" is awesome!  I've been back very infrequently since the pandemic began, but I was a regular before that. I miss that crew…

    • JohnInDenver says:
      March 28, 2023 at 3:31 PM MDT

      As of last night, Denver reported Participation Count: 33,633   % of Total: 7.42% (of active registrations). 

      In 2019, the same number of days from the end of the election, there had been 46,896 votes. the final Monday & Tuesday, abuot 104,000 votes were cast, taking the overall voting to 186,402 … 45.9% of active registrations

      • unnamed says:
        March 28, 2023 at 4:33 PM MDT

        An open Mayoral race with 17 candidates is going to cause a lot of headaches for voters that the 2019 situation did not.  

        What has 4 thumbs and is having this issue?  THIS GUY!!!  AND HIS WIFE!!!

        • harrydoby says:
          March 28, 2023 at 5:50 PM MDT

          I hope this leads to a couple of election reforms:

          1)  Ranked choice voting — take the angst out of guessing who has the best chance of making a 2 person runoff.

          2) Lower caps on Fair Election Fund distributions.  If you are capable of  raising a million dollars for mayor, you probably don't need a half million more.

        • Washopingmylastpostwouldbemylast says:
          March 28, 2023 at 8:13 PM MDT

          This can hardly end well.

          Given turnout, I’m having a hard time understanding how Andy Rougeot, being the only Republican candidate, wouldn’t come out of this first round as the “surprise” top-line winner? 

          He won’t win the runoff, however, because Denver.

          So, I imagine that the second place ballot all-other (i.e., Democratic) winner in this scrum, will be the odds-on favorite next mayor of Denver?

  2. Duke Cox says:
    March 28, 2023 at 9:30 AM MDT

    Todays' quote evokes memories of a revelation I had back in the 1990s, when I spent a few years engaged in "discussions" with the OilyBoyz.

    The suspension of disbelief is fundamentally necessary to working in any toxic, destructive industry. It helps one to rationalize so many things that are demonstrably false.

  3. Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS says:
    March 28, 2023 at 5:08 PM MDT

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  4. westslope says:
    March 28, 2023 at 8:59 PM MDT

    Maybe somebody can venture a guess why I'm seeing campaign ads for Leslie Herrod all over my social media feeds in Grand Junction?

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