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Jake Browne

For Denver City Council At-Large

Most campaigns spend money telling you about themselves. This one spends it fixing things.

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Jake Browne

Special election
November 2026

$50from you
$450public match
$500campaign budget

Your $50 becomes $500 to spend in Denver.

Denver’s Fair Elections Fund matches the first $50 of a qualifying contribution from a Denver resident at 9 to 1.

I have no interest in turning your $50 into $500 for high-priced consultants, social media spam, and mailers headed for the recycling bin. Denver gets enough of that every election.

We’ll put as much of the match as the rules allow into work Denver can see. Denver people get hired, and the receipt goes public when the job is done.

The campaign takes no corporate or PAC money and answers to Denverites.

Send us a note

Put the campaign budget to work before Election Day.

Tell us what your block needs. We pick work we can finish, hire Denver people, and publish the cost. The first receipt goes up when the first job is done.

Denver skyline, City Park lake, and the Front Range at sunset

One note starts it.

The note counts whether you give money or not.

  1. 01
    Name the block.

    Give us the location and the thing that keeps getting missed.

  2. 02
    We price the work.

    Denver labor and Denver businesses. Paid fairly.

  3. 03
    We get it done.

    Work we accept is finished within the week.

  4. 04
    You see the receipt.

    Who was paid, what it cost, and what changed.

Four promises for a 19-week term.

Each uses a power the seat already has.

01 No city money for wage thieves

A no vote on contracts while a company owes workers an unpaid Denver Labor judgment.

 02 Rules before surveillance

A no vote on surveillance contracts until Denver requires a public impact report and a council vote.

 03 Count the whole contract

Related contracts count together, so a $498,500 extension cannot duck council review.

 04 Show who got the meeting

Lobbyist, developer, and vendor meetings posted within 48 hours.
Jake Browne in Denver
Jake and Sam laughing on their wedding day

Denver since 2002.

I grew up poor in Iowa and landed here at twenty. I started writing about Denver in 2010, then spent a decade running event operations where a bad plan fails in public.

I’m running because City Hall should have to pass the same test.

More about Jake

Or ask for fifteen minutes.

A neighbor and a lobbyist see the same form and the same open times. If you lobby, build, or hold a city contract, our meeting gets published within 48 hours.

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What does your block need?

Give us the address, the corner, or the stretch of sidewalk. Be specific.

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All 78 Denver neighborhoods are in bounds.