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Mayor Hickenlooper...DNC priceless
Some 80,000 people in Invesco for Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech, all televised. An estimated $266 million in regional benefits from the Democratic National Convention, according to a study released last week by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Denver's image boost? Priceless.
And the best take-away from the DNC?
"Civic pride," Hickenlooper said, summing up the biggest plus from the four-day DNC in August.
Chatting briefly after attending Sen. Ken Salazar's speech Friday at the Denver Forum downtown, Hickenlooper noted that while some may quibble about the figures in the study, the positives he's hearing are unassailable.
"We got more media coverage in seven months" than the city normally gets in a year, he crowded. Further, there were other benefits. The millions spent on training police, for example. "Each officer got 30 or 40 hours of training. That's a legacy," he said.
Further, if Obama gets elected, Denver will be looked upon in history as a launching pad. And that wouldn't be a bad legacy for the guy who refers to himself as "the other skinny Democrat with a funny last name."
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