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Editor’s note: Throughout this election season, we will be regularly analyzing campaign claims via our new political polygraph.
Claim: “. . . I created programs for 11,000 inner-city kids.”
Mayoral candidate Michael Hancock in his “Never Gave Up” commercial.
Facts: From 1991 to 1993, Hancock worked for the Denver Housing Authority in the Resident Communities Services department. Part of his responsibilities, says Stella Madrid, the organization’s community-affairs officer, was to oversee programming geared toward all public-housing families.
According to Madrid: “In terms of our targeted goals in reaching children, 11,000 is a realistic number.”
