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Not My Job: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets Quizzed On 2020 Hickenlooper came to Colorado to work for an energy company but opened a brewpub instead. The beer must have been pretty good, because he was elected mayor of Denver and later governor of the state.

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Not My Job: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets Quizzed On 2020

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Not My Job: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets Quizzed On 2020

Not My Job: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets Quizzed On 2020

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.
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John Hickenlooper came to Colorado to work for an energy company. But he promptly got laid off and needed something else to do — so he decided to open a brewpub. The beer must have been pretty good, because he was elected mayor of Denver and, in 2010, governor of the state.

We've invited Hickenlooper to play a game called "Somebody has plans for 2020." Three questions about exciting things scheduled for the year 2020, that definitely aren't the next U.S. presidential election.

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