City Council candidate, who owns a pot shop, is campaigning via pizza box

 

Don’t accuse Denver City Council at-large candidate Kayvan Khalatbari of getting lost in the crowd. If there’s one thing he knows how to do, it’s stand out — this time, on a pizza box.

Khalatbari, 31, has been harnessing the natural delivery system of one of several businesses he co-owns — Sexy Pizza, which has three locations in central Denver neighborhoods — by affixing campaign fliers to pizza boxes before they’re sent out to customers.

Khalatbari says he printed 5,000 campaign fliers for the pizza boxes, enough to last about two weeks at the pizza shops. The piece pictures Khalatbari under the words “I’m a real person.”

He’s running against four others for two at-large seats in the May 5 election — incumbents Debbie Ortega and Robin Kniech, and fellow challengers Jose Silva and Jeffery Washington. (Read Q&As with each candidate here.)

So far, Khalatbari — who also co-owns...

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