John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
John Wright Hickenlooper, Jr.is a member of the Democratic Party and the 42nd and current Governor of Colorado. Hickenlooper has served as governor since 2011. He serves as a member of the Western Governors' Association, and was the chairman of the National Governors Association, from 2014-2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 February 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
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Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
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Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
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Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
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You have to recognize that this is the result of the sacrifice and hard work of the employees. In the end, it is the rank and file who find ways to accomplish their tasks with less resources.
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Every single person I talked to thought it was outrageous they would sell the name. We had a poll done in the six-county area paying the tax for the new stadium, and 69 percent of those we asked said they were willing to pay a higher tax if it meant we kept the name.
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Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.
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I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
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Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
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For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.