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John Hickenlooper for governor
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Oct 01, 2010 03:04pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Denver Post |
| News Date | Friday, October 1, 2010 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Colorado's state budget faces another huge shortfall. Businesses small and large face an uncertain economic environment. Unemployment hovers just above 8 percent. Our roads continue to fall into disrepair. And far too many of the state's children are still stuck in troubled schools.
Colorado's next governor, obviously, faces monumental challenges.
To move Colorado forward, we need someone who can build coalitions, someone with a proven track record of making government more efficient, of balancing budgets and of coming up with creative solutions.
John Hickenlooper is the clear choice to be our next governor.
His background in both government and private business, along with his strong leadership skills, makes him uniquely qualified to lead our state in these troubled economic times.
In the late 1980s, he remade himself into a brewpub owner after losing his job as a geologist and, in turn, helped remake a downtrodden corner of Denver into LoDo. As Denver's mayor, he made government work better and helped Denverites imagine an even greater city.
He came to office in 2003, in the midst of another recession, and quickly balanced the budget despite a slump in sales tax revenues. He then hustled to get voter approval to reform the city's career service system and launched an effort to reform the police department. |
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