Mike Johnston is promising Denver voters big changes including an end to homelessness and a return of neighborhood beat cops if he is elected mayor.
At a retirement home in southeast Denver, Johnston didn’t shrink when a collection of seniors peppered him with pressing questions.
Former Denver Mayor Federico Peña is a fan of Johnston, endorsing him in April. Johnston, he said, is “intelligent, thoughtful, caring and he gets things done,” but may appear overbearing at times. For Johnston, that has meant an embrace of teaching and the mechanics of education policy, especially where it intersects with the needs of students of color. It has also meant a stint in the state Senate and at the helm of a large Colorado philanthropy.
An indefatigable campaigner, Johnston is personable and engaging, often employing tactile emphasis with his audience by lightly gripping a shoulder here and patting a back there to make a point. He rattles off facts and figures with ease and speaks in rapid cadence, as if the thoughts in his head can’t pass his lips fast enough.
“We never had a state senator have a community office like that,” Roberts said. “One thing I do know is that Mike will listen.” “After coming to this event, there is no doubt in my mind I am voting Mike Johnston,” 46-year-old Denverite Salil Parikh said after hearing the candidate speak in the backyard of a Park Hill home on a recent Saturday. “I wanted to get a sense of who he was as a person and he seems like a really genuine and caring guy who is empathetic.”Like several recent Denver mayors, including Wellington Webb and John Hickenlooper, Johnston is not a native of the Mile High City.
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