From Michael Roberts at Westword:
Scott McInnis has been positioning himself for a political comeback since at least last year. Note that in October, McInnis prematurely pissed on the GOP’s grave by publicly predicting that Bob Schaffer would lose to Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate contest — and adding that he could have won the seat. But his stealth campaign for the 2010 governor’s office brought him into the crosshairs of organizations such as Colorado Ethics Watch, which repeatedly rapped him for refusing to make the run official. He finally did so yesterday, and in the wake of this move, ProgressNow Colorado, another liberal organization, rushed out a press release praising CEW and branding McInnis as “McLobbyist.”
Sound familiar? Republican senatorial candidate Wayne Allard twice beat Democratic rival Tom Strickland in part because conservatives successfully stuck Strickland with the tag “lawyer-lobbyist.” Dems bellyached plenty about that at the time, but it was inarguably effective — just as they hope a variation of it will be against McInnis. Expect to hear a lot of “McLobbyist” yap in the weeks and months to come.
A perennial poll–and by that we don’t mean Scott “McLobbyist” McInnis personally–follows.
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“Boulder Liberal” Mark Udall beat nickname-less Bob Schaffer by 9 points last year. I do tend to think that voters have more of a disdain for lobbyists than for Boulder liberals though–much to Dick Wadhams’ chagrin.
Not like it matters, the way McInnis is carrying himself, he’s more like a caricature of a candidate than a serious candidate. If he doesn’t drop out before next August, Penry is going to mop the floor with him in the primary–much to my chagrin.
“Big Oil Bob” Schaffer?
but I don’t think that one really stuck as much as Udall’s. It certainly wasn’t a required prefix when referring to him like Boulder liberal was for Udall.
At any rate, “Big oil Bob” was just as ineffective as “Boulder Liberal”.
And there was “Shifty Schaffer” among others.
I think far and away the best was “Sweatshop Schaffer.”
Slavery Gets Shit Done Schaffer’s Daddy
And the latest, Bob “Golden Showers” Coyote Gold Schaffer.
But I remember “Water Sports” Schaffer et ux. parasailing in the “Land of Slave Labor and Forced Abortions.”
Courtesy of Westword:
Did our present Gov have the same type of job at the same law firm at the same time….lobbying… as McInnis before he ran? I think he did.
You thought wrong. He was the Denver DA from 1993 to 2005.
I think that’ll be impressive, if Republicans just start running ads claiming Ritter was a lobbyist all that time, doing the exact same job as Scott McInnis.
Some people will claim it’s “not true,” that we “know” Ritter was DA, that it’s part of the “historical record,” and there are “news stories” about it, but Republicans will say it’s just the liberal media shilling for their favorite lobbyist.
And the Colorado media will dutifully report that “questions remain” as to Ritter’s lobbying.
Maybe that’s what GuessWho means
After DA and before Governor, he worked for one of the big law firms. I want to say it was Brownstein, but I don’t remember for sure. He was only there long enough for a cup of coffee and some fund raising.
How about the GOP airbag – Lush Rumball? Lets see if we can make that stick.