Hickenlooper Touts Restaurant Experience In Debate. His Restaurant Hired An Illegal Immigrant Who Then Murdered A Cop.

At Tuesday night’s Colorado Senate Democratic primary debate, former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) used his experience in the restaurant business to explain – albeit awkwardly – how he would be able to reach compromised solutions in Washington, D.C.

“I learned in the restaurant business that – you know, I’ve never changed anyone’s mind about anything that mattered by telling them why I was right and why they were wrong. Where you get progress is when you hear people. In the restaurant business, we’d repeat back their exact words when they’re angry, so they feel validated,” Hickenlooper said. “And that’s how we got the oil and gas industry to work with the environmental community to create the first methane regulations in the country, rolled out as national policy in Canada and the United States until, you know, President Trump and Cory Gardner support rolled it back.”