I woke up this morning to find a friend had sent me an email that hell has frozen over: Colorado Springs has elected a liberal*, black immigrant as mayor in a run-off election. There were a lot of candidates in the original election, including some who could give Lauren Boehbert a run for her money for far-right lunacy. I was pleasantly surprised when Yemi Mobolade, who is politically unaffiliated, made it to the run-off, but attributed it to the nut job Republicans beating on one another in the original race. Wayne Williams, the runner-up is a "traditional" Colorado Springs Republican, but is widely viewed as in the pocket of real-estate developers, which is not a good place to be right now.
Yemi Mobolade, a Nigerian immigrant and businessman with no political experience, will be the first elected Black mayor of Colorado Springs after he defeated Wayne Williams on Tuesday night in the city’s runoff contest.
Mobolade had received 57% of the vote to Williams’ 43% as of 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. Williams conceded at about 7:30 p.m. When the second batch of results was released shortly before 9 p.m., the percentages hadn’t shifted.
Mobolade will succeed Mayor John Suthers, a former federal prosecutor and Colorado attorney general who was term-limited, to become the city’s 42nd mayor.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/16/yemi ... ngs-mayor/
*Williams labeled Mobolade as a liberal in the commercials that were running on local TV.
Avatar was a photo I took by Killary Fjord in 2005. Killary Fjord is in Northern Connemara, Ireland.
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