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   From: nobody@yamn.paranoici.org   
      
   Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s brewing sexual harassment scandal   
   drew expressions of disappointment from several City Council members   
   Wednesday and raised questions about both his re-election bid next   
   year and any longer-term political aspirations.   
      
   So far, no city official has called for the resignation of Hancock   
   as he navigates the fallout. On Tuesday, he publicly apologized   
   after revelations that, in early 2012, during his first year in   
   office, he sent several sexually suggestive text messages to a   
   member of his security detail, Detective Leslie Branch-Wise.   
      
   But even as some council members ducked requests for comment, others   
   made clear that the text message exchanges — revealed Tuesday night   
   by Branch-Wise in an interview with Denver7 — unnerved them and   
   prompted more questions.   
      
   Branch-Wise left the mayor’s security detail in 2012 after alleging   
   a mayoral aide harassed her; that aide was fired. She said she did   
   not complain at the time about Hancock’s text messages but decided   
   to speak up now after Denver7 investigated a recent anonymous tip.   
      
   She told the station that the mayor’s texts “made me physically   
   sick” and were frightening, since she felt she couldn’t complain.   
      
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