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GOVERNOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER

In the previous Q thread, the name of John Hickenlooper, Colorado Governor, came up. While he is not referred to by Q, there were some participants of the thread who requested a dive into his background.

This is my attempt to do a cursory search, and mostly was able to do that, but in a few places, the shovel equipment came out.

Because the data kept piling up, I have broken up my report into 7 Parts.

I hope the people requesting this report will find the following helpful.

Gleaned from his Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hickenlooper

John Hickenlooper was born in Pennsylvania. His dad died early. He got his degree in geology. He worked for Buckthorn Petroleum until the days when the oil industry went into a coma.

[The joke at that time among some of my oil patch friends was, “Will the last one leaving Houston please turn out the lights? - It was a brutal time in the oil patch! ]

In need of a different source of remuneration, he started the Wynkoop Brewing Company brewpub in 1988. During that time, it is reported that he made efforts to somehow upgrade and redevelop real estate of the poor neighborhood he was in.

The next major accomplishment listed is that he served as Mayor of Denver. He had been elected for a second term, when he won election for Governor and had to resign that office to take the Governorship. The article lists a number of his positions on various issues, but I’ll spare all of us the enumeration of them. The case can be made that it is all the usual liberal claptrap, on such things as gun control, death penalty, etc., as one might expect.

There was some controversy during the 2008 Convention of Greek Columns fame, which Denver hosted for Obama. It seems he:

“arranged for the DNC host committee members, a private non-profit organization, to get untaxed fuel from Denver city-owned pumps, saving them $0.404 per gallon of fuel. Once the arrangement came to light, the host committee agreed to pay taxes on the fuel already consumed, and to pay taxes on all future fuel purchases. Also, Coors brewing company based in Golden, Colorado, used “waste beer” to provide the ethanol to power a fleet of FlexFuel vehicles used during the convention….”

He had wanted the Senate seat vacated by Ken Salazar, but Gov. Parker appointed Hickenlooper’s former chief of staff, Michael Bennet.

The Wiki article also confirmed that on August 25, 2017, it was reported that Republican Governor of Ohio, John Kasich was considering the possibility of a 2020 unity ticket to run against Donald Trump with Kasich at the top, and Hickenlooper as vice president.

Colorado conservatives are very likely relieved that he is term limited as Governor and cannot run in 2018.

Hickenlooper’s first wife was Helen Thorpe, a writer with credits in The New Yorker and many others. In 2010, he told the press that he and Helen attended Quaker meetings and tried to live by Quaker values. They separated after 10 years of marriage.

He married Robin Pringle in 2016.

What is actually interesting about him are a number of his relatives - and the connections which those relatives have had, and the speculation that arises from “what could those connections have meant, if anything, to John Hickenlooper...and his future?”

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