The magic of Denver’s Mayor Hickenlooper

In his rise from quirky outsider to one of the most watched political figures in the West, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said he has tried to govern the city the way he ran the restaurants that made him rich.

"In the restaurant business, we spend our whole lives trying never to have an enemy," he said. "You’ll do anything – even to the point of going above and beyond what you think is fair – to make sure that relationship continues in a positive way. It always struck me that that was a more useful paradigm in politics."

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