LATEST: Brough conceded to Johnston shortly after 10:15 p.m.
, 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.
Referencing Denver’s past voting patterns on Tuesday afternoon, Denver political analyst Eric Sondermann posited that unless Brough was leading by 3 or 4 percentage points in the first batch of results “it’s probably a short night” for her mayoral hopes. “This has actually been, by election standards, a pretty boring election,” said Alton Dillard, a former spokeswoman for the Denver Clerk & Recorder’s office who is now a private consultant. “The two corporatist Democrats pointing fingers back and forth over who has local money vs. national money — but it all spends the same.”, school principal and, most recently, the past CEO of the politically active philanthropic organization Gary Community Ventures.
“It’s very reasonable you could do it in four years,” Johnston said of ending homelessness in Denver. “So I hope that all of his promises and all of his plans will come to fruition,” she said. “I think we’re going to have a great opportunity to get some missing middle — or justwith city operations. Being ready to step into the mayor’s role with no learning curve was one of her central electoral sales pitches.
She rose to the level of chief of staff in then-Mayor John Hickenlooper’s administration, working on delicate projects such as helping to plan for the 2008 Democratic National Convention and renegotiating contracts with the city’s police, fire and sheriff’s department unions amid the Great Recession. Fifteen years later, those unions endorsed her in the mayor’s race.
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