Mayor Sallie Clark.
It has a nice ring to it, and political insiders and observers have been speculating that El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark will run for mayor in the April 2011 election.
But – the theory went – Clark would only run for mayor if former Congressman Scott McInnis failed to secure the Republican nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary.
We all know how that turned out.
Clark, a former city councilwoman who served as McInnis’ chief cheerleader in the county, was believed to be a possible running mate or in line for a Cabinet position if McInnis was elected Colorado’s chief executive.
Since McInnis won’t even have a shot for an office and desk under the gold dome in Denver any time soon, the question is now more relevant: Will Clark run for mayor?
“I don’t know what my future holds,” Clark said in a telephone interview.
“I’m not saying it’s out of the question,” she said. “But I’m not convinced that it would be the right path for me either. I have two years left beyond this year on my commissioner term. I make a pretty good salary, and I love my job. I think I’m just going to kind of sit back and see what happens.”
In the immediate future, Clark said she’s going to focus on helping fellow Republicans get elected to state office.
“I have some free time on my hands now,” she said, laughing.
If she ran for mayor, Clark wouldn’t have to give up her $87,500-a-year commissioner job.
“I know my name keeps being thrown out there, but right now, I’m just regrouping from” Tuesday’s primary, she said.
“We’ll see what happens in November,” she added.
No, it does not have a nice ring to it.
Can we get some fresh faces in politics, rather than these career politicians?
There must be some intelligent people out there that are interested in improving the community.
I think, way too slowly, the local voters are beginning to realize that we have some really delightful people in local government – really delightful people who are not getting the job done as far as being able to project future needs vs. future revenues and dealing with the fact that this is an ‘anti-tax’ population being led by an ‘anti-business’ group of local amateur career politicians.
The difference in those communities which are doing reasonably well in this down economy and this failing area is the leadership of which we have none. This was brought out in the Project 6035 report and by almost every single local poll. No leaders. No vision.
Those folks, Clark being among them and at the top of the list, may have difficulty getting elected to another office.
Voters will be looking for competence and capability. Not verbosity.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
She’s one of the commissioners who turned a blind eye to the massage parlors. No way does she get my vote.