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Runoff for Denver Mayor will divide city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
When Democratic state senator Chris Romer launched his campaign for Denver mayor last year, it was immediately clear that he would have the support of the Mile High City's upper class.
Now Romer will look to exercise his competitive advantages in a runoff election versus Denver City Councilman Michael Hancock. Seven other candidates were eliminated from the mayoral field in voting that ended Tuesday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most notably James Mejia who trailed Hancock by just over 1,000 votes.
After all, Chris is the son of former governor Roy Romer. He is a sitting senator for Colorado's 32nd Senate District,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and he led a once packed mayoral field from day one.
Romer had plenty of cash to hire the Chicago-based political marketing firm that kick-started Barack Obama's campaign for President in 2007 and carried Rahm Emanuel's campaign for mayor of Chicago to victory last year. Chris attended Stanford, worked most of his professional life as a public finance banker moving tens of billions of dollars,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and was arrogant enough to (twice) suggest charging a toll for drivers using I-70 to reach mountain getaways on weekends.
Chris Romer, no doubt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], has long been able to afford an expensive small aircraft flight from Denver's DIA to the Eagle County Airport near Aspen. We can hardly blame him for assuming that the rest of us could as well.
But represented in Romer's opponent for Denver mayor is a drastically different story. The disparities between the two candidates are certain to divide Denver sharply by class and race delineations.
Denver City Councilman Michael Hancock raised just shy of $800,000 in campaign donations through April compared to the $1.4 million accumulated by Romer. That near-doubling by the Romer campaign (which included surprise donations from a variety of Republican sources) speaks volumes about two very different paths to the runoff.
Hancock was born into an African American military family in Fort Hood, TX. He moved to Denver at 10 months old with his parents and siblings, but his family was soon left to fend for itself when Michael's father returned to Texas. Michael, his mother, and his 10 siblings were forced to move into public housing in a poor Denver neighborhood where food was stretched thin and heating was a luxury not afforded every night during Colorado's frigid winters.
Hancock lost a brother to AIDS in 1996 and his sister was murdered by an ex-boyfriend in 2002. He has said that his advocacy for victims of violent crimes and the underprivileged derives from his rough upbringing and family tragedies,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
So it was that Michael Hancock began a path upward through civic institutions that lend assistance to Denver's poor. At Denver's Manual High School Michael was class president for three years. He became the youngest CEO of an Urban League branch in America,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
This rags-to-semi-riches story culminated with Hancock's election to the Denver City Council in 2003, and he was selected as City Council President in consecutive unanimous votes from 2006-2008.
If Denver's upper crust is nervous about Hancock's rise,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], perhaps they should be. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], their selection of a Denver aristocrat in Chris Romer may not have been the best choice to disrupt Michael's rise. Romer has had serious image issues, and public trust in an affluent banker/politician is at the heart of all of them.
By comparison to the bootstraps story of Hancock,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Romer has been handed his livelihood as well as his lead in this election.
Worse, Romer's strength to date has been a perception that he is fiscally conservative and capable of managing the city through continued economic instability. But a spend-happy voting record in the state senate contradicts that perception. More to the point, a candidate that raised nearly double the funds of his nearest competitors had to loan his campaign $131,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 at the end of April just to maintain his lead in the polls.
Romer spent his way to a strong victory in Round 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Now the real fundraising war kicks off as we enter Round 2.
At the end of April, Hancock garnered donations and endorsements from Denver Broncos VP John Elway and new head coach John Fox. Michael knew Elway from the Broncos' 1987 run to the Super Bowl. Not because Hancock was a football player, but because he played the Broncos' mascot that season.
Elway's high-profile support was matched by an endorsement from former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, and may have swung the momentum in Hancock's favor despite Romer's slim 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],600 vote lead in yesterday's polling.
The endorsement by Webb was particularly fitting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as Wellington put in a workmanlike effort to win his first election for Denver mayor. Webb famously bronzed the shoes he wore walking every district in Denver, and proudly hung those sneakers on the wall of his office at the Denver City and County Building. They hung soles-out so that you could see the deep holes worn through the bottoms.
Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, laid out a template that Hancock would do well to follow - be the candidate of the people and walk with pride all along the way. Hancock received the ceremonial gift of a pair of sneakers from Webb on April 16th.
The Romer Campaign may have already tapped most of its local large donor sources, and that could leave Chris in an awkward new position. Romer may be forced to do more advertising with less money. (Or loan more personal funds to his campaign.) Meanwhile Hancock's messaging will get easier now that he has no competition behind him for funding or for Denver's ample grassroots support.
Golden boy Romer will go a-begging while the formerly impoverished Hancock thrives. An ironic endgame setup for a mayoral race that will pit rich versus poor - affluent white banker versus self-made black advocate for Denver's downtrodden,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
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