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One poll only, but like 6 weeks in advance of the Denver Mayor's election, about 60% of respondents were undecided. Kelly Brough leading this poll with a whopping 7.6%:
https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/02/21/poll-denver-mayor-race-2023
I think I have made up my mind on the mayor's race. Unless he does/says something to turn me off, I'm going with Mike Johnston.
Still clueless about City Council-at-large though.
I'm not from Denver and don't know anything about some of the candidates. The few I have encountered: Penfield Tate is awesome with a world of experience but not exactly a spring chicken; Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez was a thoughtful and effective state legislator and has deep Denver experience; Jeff Walker was on the RTD board, lots of experience in local issues. Guess I like experience!
My only mayoral question is: Who is the tallest woman?
The poll results are a bit suspect, as it was commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce, and the top poller was Kelly Brough, former head of the Chamber of Commerce.
And the follow-up question on how to deal with homelessness is not being asked. Everyone wants homeless people off the streets – but where should they go?
Safe parking places, shelters, jails, across the border to the next county, where?
Candidates should be asked where they want homeless people to go after they are "swept" off the streets. Denver had a successful "permanent supportive housing" program in 2021, according to a Pew study, and confirmed by an Urban Institute evaluator.
The study also found
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and Mental Health Center of Denver were partners in the effort, which still continues on a limited basis today.
So what programs, if any, do these candidates support? And how do they propose to pay for them?
Leslie Herod took second though, not your typical Chamber candidate unless she's changed or I'm mistaken, which certainly happens. I was most impressed, not in a great way, with the nearly 60% undecided with not that much time left in the campaign.
You can get a brief sense of positions on the issues of homelessness in coverage at Denverite:
Lots of proposals, enough to confuse basically every voter. Lots of assumptions of how things COULD work.
I'm pretty certain that this muddle won't win prizes for "best election plan" —
Thank you President Biden for delivering that oh so sweet kick in the nuts to Pooty yesterday. Excellent, excellent work!
Good ol' Uncle Joe is kicking some ass. Way to go, Mr. President!!
Everything you Think you Know about Carter and Reagan is Wrong. Noah Smith.
Very good, non-polemical article looking back at the economics of the 70s & 80s. The whole thing is educationa.
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"In the 70s, Carter’s liberal big-government policies resulted in runaway inflation."
Of course, that was one of the big fat lies that Reagan's campaign told. Ted Kennedy's challenge to Carter should dispel any claim that Carter was some flaming liberal.
Inflation rates were substantially higher under Nixon/Ford in 1974 and 1975 than in the first few years under Carter. Not proud of this, but I remember Ford's campaign Whip Inflation Now (WIN), and he used to wear WIN buttons.
We know that the 1970s inflation came from the oil shock.
The other thing we know is that monetary policy, or any economic policy, but especially inflation policy, has a long lag time.
Republicans did demonize Carter, just as they demonized Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden. It is a scorched-earth electoral strategy.
Republicans just introduced a bill to literally defund the police.
"H.R.374 To abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms."
It's Matt Gaetz's bill, ergo, not to be taken seriously
But keep in mind it is the anti-ATF that is now the majority of GOP in the House. My fear is there is a possibility it could pass. And with Manchin and Siema (sp?) in the Senate, there IS reason for concern.
Biden would never sign it and they've only got, what an 8-vote majority?