(Let’s roll! – promoted by ThillyWabbit)
At the ProgressNow Bat Cave yesterday (also known as my co-worker Jen’s teeny windowless office), we got to talking about Scott “McLobbyist” McInnis and the coup recently scored on his behalf in the Republican gubernatorial primary. It’s really odd that Josh Penry left the race so suddenly, isn’t it? And most media reported that a big reason Penry left the race was an “independent committee” set up to fight off any challengers to McInnis.
This immediately got us thinking about our call last May for an investigation of McInnis after he left a voice mail message, leaked on the internet subsequently, describing in detail ‘his 527’–inviting questions about illegal coordination between McInnis and ‘his’ so-called “independent committees.” What happened this week to Penry could be seen as a confirmation of our worst fears.
What we at ProgressNow would really like to do is talk to McInnis about this, get his response to these potentially serious allegations on the record. Unfortunately, McInnis doesn’t grant very many interviews. And some of the interviews he has granted haven’t gone so well.
But then we remembered, we’ve got McInnis on the record addressing these very questions: the voice mail! If Scott McInnis were to come clean about his questionable campaign activities as we’ve called for over and over again, here’s how we imagine the interview going. Not a real conversation, obviously!
It would be nice to have this kind of candor in the non-parody world, wouldn’t it?
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I’m not sure why the hell it is that the Republican party is so desperate to clear out primaries for their “selected” candidates. Competition works in the business world and it works in politics. Let’s primary this thing and see who comes out on top. God forbid it’s not that lunatic Tancredo. I’d vote for Ritter before that nutjob.
Anyway, I’m curious as to why the national headlines are showing the Republican party as the party that is trouble with it’s wing elements. I’d say that the same exact fundamental problem exists with the Democratic party as well. If they can’t appease the wing-nuts on the left, then they face the same challenges that Scozzafava faced.
and haven’t paid attention.
Democrats ALWAYS fight like cats and dogs among themselves. Always have, and always will.
Will Rogers said it best: I am not a member of any organized party – I am a Democrat.
And that is true. But the editorial lines every since Hoffman lost have been showing a “civil war” in the Republican party, and that the Republicans are “eating themselves alive”.
Why? Scozzafava was selected and not primaried. I think it’s extremely healthy for the primary process to have it’s role, and then for a candidate that represents the people’s choice to go against the Dem’s choice. I think that 3rd party candidates make elections better. Frankly, I think the nation would be served better if we moved toward a runoff election in Congressional and Senate, and even Presidential elections if the winner doesn’t get 50% of the vote.
is assumed and not fact anyway. Most people assume Penry was pushed out by Republican leadership. They can’t see that maybe his fundraising just wasn’t enough and his ship was running toward dry land or that maybe he talked it over with his very young family and decided it was too much too soon.
Instead it was a mafia type hit, where the Republican “elite” took him out. It’s always made out to be that way and it always will because it’s politics. Even if McInnis did talk to them it would never be a fair interview, just isn’t the way it works, unfortunately.
I’m just repeating what’s been said a dozen times on this website. And it’s true…there could have been 50 million reasons he scurried away like he did, but everyone assumes the worst. Go figure.
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shouldn’t we assume the worst ?
It would do him no good, and these kinds of dust-ups don’t interest the average voter.
You need to craft a story that is both compelling and logical. With that people will read it. Then you need to get it posted regularly and get others to link to those posts. That way it rises in Google over the next 9 months.
This way, come September (if McInnis wins the primary), any Google search on him will bring this up. And that will kill his chances with a lot of independents who use Google (ie most voters under 35) to research the candidates.