The major GOP races in Colorado don’t want for drama this year — or comedy, depending on your perspective. Tom Tancredo’s high noon ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes was followed by Ken Buck’s “Weld County bullshit” statement and another comment in which he called Tea Party birthers “dumbasses.”…
Out in the real world, “there ain’t so such thing as a free lunch,” but don’t tell that to Denver City Council. Mayor Hickenlooper has asked every department in city government to reduce their budgets by ten percent. City Council has only been able to find a 4 percent savings…
Shocking news: Dan Maes isn’t accepting Tom Tancredo’s ultimatum that he and embattled candidate Scott McInnis pledge to drop out of the governor’s race if they’re not ahead in the polls after the August 10 Republican primary. His statement describes the plan as “arrogant and absurd” — Dick Wadhams uses…
There’s a lot of bullshit in Colorado politics lately. Mere days after senatorial candidate Ken Buck boasted that he wears cowboy boots “with Weld County bullshit, not D.C. bullshit,” Tom Tancredo uses the same word to characterize Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams’ criticism of Tancredo’s ultimatum to severely damaged Republican…
Dick Wadhams, head of Colorado’s Republican Party, doesn’t mince words when it comes to Tom Tancredo’s ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes. Instead, he slices, dices and purées the very notion of a Tancredo candidacy in stronger language than he usually deploys against Democrats…
This past weekend, Tom Tancredo told Patricia Calhoun that with a few days, he’d make some kind of announcement about the governor’s race, which is a mess on the Republican side thanks to Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems and Dan Maes’s assorted challenges. And that’s one campaign promise he’s kept. He…
A few days ago we told you that members of the Hasan family, grantors of a $300,000 fellowship for “water musings” by (or allegedly by) Scott McInnis, are also the largest reported donors to three tax-cutting initiatives on the November ballot. But their $10,000 is a pretty modest gesture compared…
Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems sent his campaign into a tailspin — and with competitor Dan Maes mired in troubles of his own, Colorado Republicans like Senator Greg Brophy are scrambling for a fix. Still, Republican consultant Katy Atkinson believes McInnis isn’t necessarily doomed — although he’s got a big mountain…
After what his critics characterize as a long delay, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has released his tax returns — and they show per annum income as low as $11,000 in recent years. The data prompted the Denver Post, which has never been a big Maes backer, to editorialize against…
There’s no politics like Boulder politics. At last night’s Boulder City Council meeting, Seth Brigham, who’d previously protested a possible nudity ban by stripping to his boxers, ridiculed proposed new decorum rules already facing the ACLU’s wrath by wearing a Zorro mask while speaking. (The rules would nix mask-wearing –…
Who wants to be a coroner? More people than you think, now that CSI and its ilk have made death investigation seem like a hip and even lively career choice. In Colorado practically anyone can apply for the job, which has made for some intriguing races this year. Especially in…
Yesterday, Scott McInnis made his first public appearance — at Adams State College in Alamosa — since word of his plagiarism problems broke. But according to Channel 7’s John Ferrugia, who was there, McInnis treated a subsequent interview like a game of dodge ball, repeatedly declining to answer direct questions…
Musings on Plagiarism If Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis can plagiarize water experts and make the big bucks, then I should be allowed to plagiarize daily cartoonists for a few cheap laughs. Instead of The Simpsons, Dennis the Menace and Pearls Before Swine, I give you The Shamsons, McInnis the…
Earlier today, Patricia Calhoun shared a chat with Tom Tancredo at the Independence Institute’s ATF event this past weekend. But I caught up with him yesterday when he was at an even more unusual place — a fast-moving line at the DMV (and “fast-moving” isn’t a misprint). But he still…
Is Bill Ritter guilty of plagiarizing? That’s what investigative website Face the State seems to be suggesting, having dug up a 2008 Veterans Day commentary bylined by Ritter in 2008 that has more than a passing resemblance to a Veterans Day speech given by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski four years…
Lucky Scott McInnis: Instead of spotlighting McInnis’s plagiarism problems, the latest USA Today focuses its attention on Colorado’s senate hopefuls. Although the Michael Bennet-Andrew Romanoff race earns some virtual ink, the focus is on Ken Buck’s transition from electoral also-ran to front-runner, with the liberty movement given much of the…
Scott McInnis’s alleged plagiarism related to his “Musings on Water,” a series of articles for which the Hasan Family Foundation paid him $300,000 he’s now pledged to refund, has turned onetime political friends into reluctant enemies. Take Senate assistant minority leader Greg Brophy, who encourages McInnis and/or Dan Maes to…
Members of the Hasan family, the wealthy backers of Colorado GOP causes, whose award of a $300,000 fellowship to Scott McInnis erupted last week in a plagiarism scandal, are also the largest single donors to three tax-cutting initiatives on the November ballot. The measures — Amendments 60 and 61 and…
The February arrest of Seth Brigham, who stripped to his boxers at a Boulder city council meeting in reference to a possible nudity ban, has led to proposed rules of decorum that prohibit disrobing and more. To Judd Golden of Boulder’s ACLU branch, the prospective regs represent an “unnecessary overreaction…
Earlier today, we told you about a release from the Hasan Family Foundation, which paid Scott McInnis $300,000 for “Musings on Water,” a series of articles that included direct lifts from Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs’s work. The Foundation demanded a refund — and a release from the McInnis camp…
Update below: This morning, the Hasan Family Foundation, the organization that paid Scott McInnis $300,000 for his “Musings on Water” — the ones that included sections directly lifted from Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs’s work — formally asked for a refund. The organization, whose local face was Ali Hasan, a…
Update below: The headline “Josh Green Thinks Scott McInnis is Sleazy, Should Quit” may come as a shock to locals. After all, that’s the name of a McInnis spokesman. Have his own people turned against him? Not quite. The author is a different Josh Green — a writer for The…
