Winners:
Giovanna Negretti — first delegate selected (male or female), besting all of the elected officials nominated. Probably the broadest coalition of support in the room, and clearly had done the work of getting her supporters to come and vote.
Brian Corr — though he won’t be representing the District in Denver, he ran hard for one of the male delegate slots against the odds (he wasn’t part of the slate). He won votes with his work on the floor, and garnered the endorsement of Jim Brinning when Jim he withdrew his name. Classy concession speech too. He could be a formidable candidate for office at some point. Remember his name…
Honorable Mentions:
April Taylor & Sara Aviel — both ran good campaigns for the female delegate slots. April was in there until the end for both female delegate and alternate seats. Sara, running in what I think was her first caucus, worked the floor hard and had a smile on her face all day.
Losers:
Mike Ross — helped run the slate, but still took him three ballots to win a male delegate seat. Either his people didn’t show, or the ones who did didn’t vote for him. Or maybe he just overestimated his support in the room. Any way you look at it, not a very good showing for a sitting Councilor. He does get points for bringing water and sandwiches for voters and volunteers. Much appreciated.
Gloria Fox — another elected official that couldn’t win on the first ballot (or second, or…), her slate-mate (Negretti) blew her out of the water on the first and second ballots.
Charles Yancey — what can I say, his vote totals went down on each ballot (I think we did 6 or 7 male ballots), yet he stubbornly kept his name on the ballot even when it was obvious to everyone it would take a miracle for him to win. It was actually getting to the point where he was in danger of not breaking the 15 percent threshold. Sad thing is, he could have thrown his support to another candidate (maybe Corr?) and probably pushed him over the top. Someone should take a long look at his Council seat…
Dishonorable Mention:
Sean Riley — Wasn’t his crowd (he lives in Charlestown), but he was part of the slate and really only won because everyone else withdrew. Again, if you’re running a slate, you’ve gotta make sure everyone is voting the slate. That obviously didn’t happen, and Riley didn’t have his own people in the room to push him over the top. Hey, he’s still going to Denver, but it took an awful lot of ballots to get to that point.
That’s my take. I’d love to hear opinions from others who were there.
…who stay to the end of the meeting.
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