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  Denver Mayor's Race: Return of the Twenty-Year Bitch
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Last EditedBrentinCO  Jan 27, 2023 07:10am
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News DateFriday, January 27, 2023 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionEvery twenty years, voters like to surprise this city with a call for real change. It sounded in 1963, five years after the city celebrated its hundredth anniversary, with a barrage of boosterism, when incumbent Mayor Richard Batterson lost to City Auditor Tom Currigan, a solid numbers guy who'd promised to clean up the Denver Police Department scandal that ultimately sent thirty cops to prison for crimes ranging from gambling to prostitution to burglary.

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Once again, it could be time to scratch that twenty-year bitch.
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Jan 27, 2023 07:00am Analysis Brimming ballot of Denver mayoral candidates approach itchy electorate   Article BrentinCO 

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