Denver Mayor Michael Hancock may be a bit biased, but if you ask him — and we did — he because his administration has made progress on all fronts.
Others beg to differ, particularly parks advocates and neighborhood activists wary of the pace of development who have fought against Hancock administration proposals and decisions.
“I think when you look at our administration, you’ll find an administration that has been able to systematically begin to really lift this city up, and have it move toward not just recovery, but thriving in this economy,” Hancock said Wednesday during “On the Spot,” the weekly Denver Post TV political show. “And we haven’t had too many challenges in terms of not being able to recover from them. Those are the things I think a potential challenger would look at and determine this is not the time to take on this administration.”
You can watch the entire On the Spot interview above, or . This weekend, look for my story in The Post looking back at Hancock’s first term and ahead to his probable second term.
In the interview, Hancock says he has learned his administration needs to improve communication on parks issues and brushes off repeated criticism from the police union as unsurprising rhetoric. He also says he’s now reviewing his staff’s research on potential big moves on affordable housing that could lead him to ask voters to approve taxes or fees.
Hancock faces three challengers, with mail balloting underway: Sekú (short for Chairman Sekú, an alias for community activist Stephan E. Evans), Paul Noël Fiorino and Marcus Giavanni. None has reported raising money, but all have been campaigning actively, to varying degrees.
