John Hickenlooper — American Politician born on February 07, 1952,

John Wright Hickenlooper, Jr. is a member of the Democratic Party and the 42nd and current Governor of Colorado. Hickenlooper has served as Governor since 2011. He serves as a member of the Western Governors' Association, and was the Chairman of the National Governors' Association. from 2014-2015... (wikipedia)

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.