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…
Denver Post editor Greg Moore defends a story about an alleged second example of plagiarism by Scott McInnis, as well as the decision to deal with questions about it in an article that began with repudiations of McInnis by Rolly Fischer, the candidate’s designated fall guy. But a writer McInnis…
How is Scott McInnis responding to pressure that he drop out of the governor’s race due to plagiarism problems? Via his Twitter feed. That’s very Paula Abdul of him. Trouble is, the second he shared his intention to stick around, a well-known progressive wondered if a certain someone had actually…
For the past three days, the Denver Post has run big stories about guv wannabe Scott McInnis. Day one’s offering, about apparent McInnis plagiarism in lousy water articles, was a slam dunk — and likely dooms his campaign, with even the likes of Dan Caplis turning against him. But day…
As Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems worsened, Republican power brokers began to consider what to do should he drop out of the guv race. And while there’s plenty of debate about who the best candidate should be, there’s wide agreement among such folks about who it shouldn’t be: Dan Maes, the…
Anyone who thought Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems might not kill his campaign prior to yesterday’s Caplis & Silverman show on KHOW likely reconsidered afterward. That’s because Republican stalwart Dan Caplis joined the Denver Post is calling for McInnis to give up the ghost and let another Republican with a better…
The Scott McInnis plagiarism brouhaha has been a gift to the Colorado Democratic Party, which has had trouble whipping up the faithful of late — and they’re taking advantage of it. The latest broadside: a statement from two CU regents, Michael Carrigan and Stephen Ludwig, who voted to fire controversial…
Is Scott McInnis’s plagiarism controversy really a “non-issue,” as he claims? Not to Lu Busse, chair of the 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition, and a leading voice in the state’s “liberty movement,” which includes Tea Party groups. Below, she explains why…
The plagiarism controversy plaguing Scott McInnis is only getting uglier, and his awkward attempts to make it go away are doing nothing thus far to tidy up the mess. The problem is exacerbated by both substance and style. McInnis’s official statement on the issue — read it below — doesn’t…
Last Wednesday, Alan Prendergast wrote about a potential fine against Dan Maes for campaign-finance violations involving mileage reimbursements. The penalties could have exceeded $27,000, but Maes bargained down to $17,500. And now, according to him, it’s all over. Or so he would like it to be…
