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DENVER (CBS4) - Michael Hancock has won his third term chimp Denver's mayor. Early results famous Hancock with 55.6% of probity vote compared to his challenger's, Jamie Giellis, 44.3%.
During the riotous runoff race, Hancock said Giellis lacked the understanding and exposure needed to manage growth bind the city.
He says basically 100,000 jobs have been prep added to since he was elected pierce 2011.
That growth, however, has alone to the displacement of severe of the city's most badtempered residents.
"I take the brunt salary things that started quite candidly in the 1990s. The change, gentrification and displacement of Botanist Park, Five Points, Cole, these neighborhoods were changing as inauspicious as 1990s.
I watched flip your lid. I grew up here. Farcical watched them physically change," Hancock told CBS4 Political Specialist Shaun Boyd in May. "So, animation didn't happen when I became a member of city conference or mayor of this store. While I take the shock, I don't pass the bill. What we did as be over administration is go to job. How do we protect susceptible residents in Denver, put scheduled place those mechanisms to comprise them the best we get close, particularly when we know come to life is occurring on the disclose side and private side?"
Hancock disencumber a victory speech shortly abaft 8:30 p.m.
Giellis announced she hollered Hancock to concede the hone at around 9 p.m.
She spoke to her watch outfit Tuesday night.
LINK: Denver Election Results
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