Commentary: I'm Voting, however Not for Either Denver Mayoral Candidate

I'm truly dissatisfied in the mayoral overflow prospects this year. The two effective prospects combined received less than 45 percent of the votes during the April election.

I was respectable at arithmetic, and I am struck that more than 55 percent of the city did not elect more Hickencock. They voted for modification.

I presume that the successful candidates had more cash than all the other prospects combined. They each had a money source that has business with the city.

The donors are people who are developers of this which. My experience with abundant donors is that they view their "contributions" as their civic duty and as a financial investment. As I understand financial investments, they are based upon a concentrated interest in more money.

I highly think the "Let's-all-run-for-mayor!" election is a disappointing failure. None of the subsidized prospects had anywhere close to the amounts invested by the successful prospects.

That was an election on the auction block. The two prospects are shoveling their positions out of the Hickencock workbooks ... in unison.

For the very first time in my life, I don't care which candidate wins. I do not desire anymore meaningless densification and the damage of low-income neighborhoods that have survived by virtue of the community that served its citizens. A neighborhood that discovered ways over the decades to make it better when neighbors needed assistance. A community that was then blown up throughout the city by densification.

I'm not going to enact the mayor part of my tally. I'm going to send my message by becoming an "under-vote," which is what the Denver Elections Division calls the absence of a vote on any prospect or concern when a ballot is kipped down. They are counted as votes and their number published.

I will be counted by the Denver Clerk and Recorder as someone who could not vote for either prospect. The last vote count will note me as a citizen who cared enough to vote, however not for more Hickencock.

Join me if this makes sense to you. If you have an option between the prospects, by all mean, vote for your preference.

Otherwise, tell the winner that the 55 percent of us who didn't vote for more Hickencock do not support the brand-new mayor.

Tom Morris is a longtime area leader and civic activist.

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