Mike Johnston is leading Kelly Brough in the runoff race to be Denver’s first new mayor in a dozen years, according to early returns.
, the runoff featured two of the more moderate contenders — Johnston, a former state legislator and nonprofit leader, and Brough, a former top aide in the Denver mayor’s office and then leader of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.
If Johnston’s lead holds as the rest of the ballots cast in the runoff are counted, Denver will still have never elected a woman mayor. The two have sparred over the potential conflicts of interests represented by donors feeding their outside spending groups — a river of cash that has benefited Johnston by $3.5 million over Brough. They have policy differences when it comes to homelessness. Both intend to keep enforcing the city’s urban camping ban, but Brough has said she would use arrests as a last resort to clear homeless encampments when Johnston said he would not incarcerate people.
The Brough campaign sought to paint that idea as a pie-in-the-sky overpromise. Relying on a combination of one-time federal stimulus funding, dedicated sales tax revenue and money from Proposition 123, a statewide property tax redistribution measure Johnston championed while running Gary Community Ventures, he’s stood fast by that goal.
Mayoral candidate Kelly Brough meets with the members of the press at ReelWorks Denver, her campaign’s watch party headquarters, before numbers start to roll in on June 6, 2023. Brough is running against Michael Johnston in Denver’s Mayoral race.
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