'Moving here has also given me a front-row seat for the three-ring circus that is Aurora city politics, with a municipal election approaching that could change how Aurora is governed and which party governs it.'
says Dave Perry, editor of Aurora’s hometown news outlet, the Sentinel. And most Aurora City Council members, left and right, oppose the plan and how it was introduced.
The push for the new system began ignominiously early this year, with backers in the shadows and petitioners asking voters to sign what they pitched as a term-limits measure.
Even some of Coffman’s allies aren’t buying that. Aurora Councilman Curtis Gardner, who like Coffman is a Republican and says he agrees with the mayor on policy “90% or more of the time,” told 9News that voters were “hoodwinked” when they were “told this is about term limits, when it’s really not.” Ultimately, in the quest for a better Aurora, there may be a more important reform to enact than boosting the mayor’s power: Requiring that candidates for city office get at least 50% of the vote to win. Unlike Denver, Aurora has no two-way runoff after the general election. Coffman himself was first elected in 2019 with just 36% of the vote in a five-way race. At-large council members typically win with less than a quarter of the total vote.
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