Millions of dollars in tax-payer-provided campaign funds are helping drive a stampede of candidates into the Denver mayor’s race ahead of the city’s April 2023 election.
Other factors beyond public financing are likely contributing to the ever-growing field. It is the first time there will be no incumbent running for mayor since Hancock, now term-limited, was first elected in 2011. That year, 10 candidates were certified for the ballot, the most in any municipal race since at least 1975, city election officials confirmed. That group was whittled from a list of 20 people who filed candidate paperwork, according to the elections division.
Terrance Roberts has a higher public profile than many of the outsider candidates in the mayoral field. “I still chose to run because of the fair elections process,” Roberts said. “We felt, even though ranked-choice was not implemented, the Fair Elections Fund would help get me enough capital to compete with establishment political candidates and it’s doing just that.”
That cycle, Calderón raised just over $166,000, city records show . Hancock meanwhile raised more than $2.9 million. Fundraising has typically taken up at least half of a candidate’s time in Calderón’s experience. While still time-consuming, the promise of public matching dollars means she can spend more time talking to constituents, attending forums and otherwise meeting with voters. The fund not only gives her a better chance to spread her message across the city but it also gives her supporters more of a sense they are on an equal playing field with donors capable of giving thousands, she said.
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