Is he a fan of The Secret or a practitioner of The Law of Attraction? Borrowing from the nickname of Jerry Brown, is Hickenlooper Denver's "Mayor Moonbeam"? From "Hickenlooper's take on recession mind-befuddling" (Denver Post):
Buck up, Colorado.
That seemed to have been John Hickenlooper's take last week when he said "a recession like this really is driven by people's mental state."
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Hickenlooper has stepped in it.
His remark on a radio talk show Thursday was not only impolitic for a candidate running for governor during the worst downturn since the 1930s. It was remarkably tone deaf on a day when stocks and commodities were plummeting. It was also out of touch with hundreds of thousands of people he's already governing as Denver mayor.
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AM 760 radio host David Sirota reminded the mayor on- air that former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas was ousted as top economic adviser to John McCain in 2008 for remarking that "this is a mental recession."
"No, I'm not saying that," Hickenlooper backtracked, only then to step even deeper into his psychobabble and flip-floppery.
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