STOP cheering about the Colorado Springs election
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217922988Yeah, Wayne Williams is a piece of garbage, but Yemi Mobolade might be worse. He is an openly homophobic religious bigot. CS might not be as racist as the rest of the country, but they do LOVE their religious zealots who hate--and I mean HAAAAATE--LGBTQIA+ people.
Read the comments!
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My second interview was with Yemi Mobolade, an immigrant from Nigeria who moved here when he was seventeen to go to a liberal arts college, which he described as similar to Colorado College. Mobolade is an independent who believes strongly in progressive social policies, such as supporting non-English speaking populations, making Colorado Springs more diverse, and supporting and uplifting the queer community.
Mobolade is socially liberal but stands in the moderate to conservative zone of fiscal ideology. He said he would take after Theodore’s Roosevelt’s “bully pulpit” and lead by example, as opposed to making laws to deal with developers and other similar situations in the Springs. He said he would bring organizations run by the LGBTQ+ community, communities of color, and general diversity to the table so that his mayoral office represents everyone.
mega church as far as I can pick up that huge building and throw it.
standard bios, and his name is not mentioned in the middle article, in good part because it is 11 years old (2012), before he ever worked there (2015-17, as an outreach director).
Also, in rebuttal to the OP, others have already posted actual evidence that seems to possibly contradict the charges, and at least it is closer to actual evidence than what you put up:
defeating whoever the Democratic candidates were...
As for this thread, I hope it's very overstated for CS's sake. We do often get excitable and run off cliffs here with bits of what we like to think are information. Amaf, the "Nigerian prince" comes to mind... 
I hope he'll be a good one.
This man's 45 years old -- mature with a history. It should be available and examined, but if his representations aren't compatible with and supported by his history...vote for someone else. Kind of late for that, though. And, of course, "mayor" is no job for amateurs.
Imo, it's not necessarily a tragedy if he turns out to be more conservative (just not hard core) than those on the left were lead to believe and/or just hoped. That's actually a fairly common outcome. Many in minority factions especially are typically thrilled to have a viable candidate of "their own" to vote for, don't require proof of positions, and are fairly often disappointed after electing whoever's been schmoozing them to discover they've been mislead.
If he can be a good mayor for the whole city, it'll work. It's an intensely practical job, good performance by most measures pretty much ruling out serving any ideological extreme, neither "hate city" nor unrealistic goals for any narrow issue, but rather improving, developing, meeting common needs.
One thing about this guy is that he apparently drew from across the electorate -- farther left, liberal left/Democrats, indies, Republicans, so he obviously projects the leadership he says is very important. He says he wants to make the city as fine as its setting.
