Hey, Denver. Remember there’s also a Denver mayor’s race.

It’s fair to say, as Donald Trump was preparing to walk into a courtroom to face charges that could someday put the former-and-possibly-future president in prison, that the eyes of the world were not exactly focused on Denver’s mayoral race Tuesday.

That’s hardly surprising, of course, especially since the eyes of a solid majority of Denverites are not exactly focused on the mayor’s race either. As of Friday, voter turnout was running at, um, 13%.

It’s worth asking why, even if most of the answers I’ve heard run from the obvious — there are just too damn many candidates, 16 when the polls closed, and the resulting cacophony made it hard for any one candidate to stand out — to the more serious, that the difficult issues facing the city, many of which range…