Denver City Council candidate Sean Bradley said Friday that if he wins a June 2 runoff, he will leave his job as president and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan Denver.
Bradley’s comments to The Denver Post, after declining to answer the question definitively earlier this week, put to rest speculation that he might try to work both jobs.
He started at the Urban League in January. He said Friday that he would not step down immediately, instead making arrangements to help the organization transition to a new leader. He likely would leave the Urban League by the time new council members take the oath in mid-July, Bradley said.
“The reality of it all is, if and when we win this race, there was no way I was going to be able to do two of these jobs,” he said.
Bradley said his plans had not changed, but he decided to speak about his Urban League agreement in more detail because the issue had become “a political distraction.”
He is running against Stacie Gilmore in far-northeast District 11.
On Tuesday, during a Post video interview alongside Gilmore, Bradley referred only to a “transitional process” he had worked out with the Urban League’s board. He would not say if he planned to leave the job if he won. He also referred to Urban League presidents serving as council members in other cities without any problems. Denver’s council members will be paid a salary of $87,623 next term for a job that’s considered full time, though outside employment isn’t barred.
