EDITORIAL: Reelect Mike Coffman as Aurora mayor
Aurora has never before had a mayor quite like Mike Coffman. And it's not just because of the lifelong Auroran's extraordinary resume: U.S. Marine ...
Aurora has never before had a mayor quite like Mike Coffman. And it's not just because of the lifelong Auroran's extraordinary resume: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve officer; longtime state legislator; Colorado state treasurer; Colorado secretary of state; five-term U.S. congressman. It's also because he speaks his mind, does what he thinks is right and blazes his own trails — whether or not it's popular with the press or the political class. Like the time a couple of years ago when Coffman, two years into his first term at the helm of city government, went undercover for a week among Aurora's substantial homeless population on the streets to do some investigative reporting of his own.