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(D) Diana DeGette*
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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July 02, 2009 01:56 AM UTC
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Scott McInnis is obviously trying to make sure as few people as possible know about his campaign.
Well, in any case, the shadow campaign may be over, but the Scott McInnis Bullet in Foot campaign seems to be going strong.
much better than ‘HighSchooler4BroncosQB’
THe offer still stands – I would be happy to interview you to give you equal time with Governor Ritter and Senator Penry.
McInnis has had a golden opportunity to set the terms of the debate and demonstrate to the State’s GOP what a gift he could be to challenge Ritter. What has he done with the opportunity? Squandered every single bit of it. This is a freaking train wreck! Maybe this is how they ran campaigns back in the day (you know, the good old days when Tom DeLay ran the show) but this trickle out approach is just embarassing. The guy can’t even get a website up but he wants to negotiate the state budget?
Scott. Please. Do us all a favor and do like you always do…pull out of this race.
His cmapaign website is up, it just doesn’t have more than the rudimentary content until tomorrow morning.
But yeah, go ahead, bash McInnis. Let’s drum the competent, centrist Republicans out of the party.
Not lately.
If he had the website up on the day he filed the paperwork “cheaters” like you would suggest that he wasn’t working within the guidelines of campaign law.
That’s kinda cool.
Isn’t $8,700 the same amount he ran up the national debt every second he was in Congress?
Perhaps 8,700 is how many days my kids will have to work to pay back said debt.
Republicans eating their own is always good for a laugh.
Especially in light of what the rate of debt being piled up now under a completely Democratic President, House, and supermajority Senate.
Wow, we will have a supermajority next week and already it’s a cause of what has been done?
…all of the responsibility to what’s about to happen economically to our country.
It’s the price of being a Democrat.
The surge in Iraq?
Mmm hmm.
toward making up for a thousandth part of the damage done, including to our economy, by the initiation of the war in the first place and the abject incompetence and shameless profiteering graft that characterized the prosecution of that war for years, courtesy of the worst administration in our history, a Republican administration with control of the other two branches during most of its tenure.
Sorry LB. Your guys take the prize for screwing everything they touched up, a single stumble into a partial amelioration not withstanding. May they forever maintain their rightful place in history as the most disastrous bunch of idiots with which we have ever been cursed. Don’t know that we could survive an administration that could knock their’s from that perch.
Even if the Bush administration was, as you say, a disastrous bunch of idiots, their negative effect was still limited to their ability to plan and execute bad ideas. They certainly didn’t have the sweeping majority that Obama does.
The Obama-led Dems knows exactly how they want to screw up the country, and they’ve got the super-majority and the backing of a starstruck populace to do whatever their little socialist hearts desire.
Real original. You guys really could use some new slurs. But then conservatives don’t like change. The same all purpose talking points last you for decades.
Take a look at California, and imagine that on a country-wide scale. You simply can’t spend this much money on votes (entitlements) and sustain it. For crying out loud, the largest spending bill in our nation’s history was voted on without being read.
First it has the standard issue of people demand more services than they are willing to pay for. But this is the least of the big three problems it faces.
Second it has very powerful interest groups that each demand they get their piece of the pie. And that spans the gamut from public employee unions to the construction company owners doing all the public work.
Third it has a dysfunctional political system with not only the public initiative process gone horribly wrong but where they need a 2/3 vote to pass the budget.
Fourth they have their own TABOR in how property taxes are assesed. This means that taxes are at the breaking point for many – and wy low for others. But they cannot be raised on those who have them set very low. So there is no way to rasie income.
I may not agree with exactly what Schwarzenegger wants to do to fix this but I give him major kudos for having tried to solve the root problems many times and in many ways. But the system is so locked up, people there are not willing to fix it (yet).
If the ultimate goal of Scooter and his leftover loyalists from his congressional staff is to prove how out of touch and out of the loop they are, Check. Why even bother posting the “news” today if all you do is bring up scott’s obvious tendency to getting in a race right before he gets out of it? Adding the comment on to the thread about him running for the Senate in ’08? What the…?
This guy served in Congress for how many terms? Wow. You’d think some of DeLay’s political acumen would have rubbed off on him.
That is why McInnis hired Penry. He needed a human box of baking soda to absorb the DeLay stench. And Penry has proven himself to be that no-questions-asked flunky in carrying on the DeLay way of doing business. Offer no solutions, just throw up obstacles at every opportunity.
“I wish I didn’t have to support guys like Josh Penry.” -MesaModerate
“human box of baking soda to absorb the DeLay stench.”
I think I found myself a new signature. Thanks WST!
All apologies for posting the press release in comments.
Unfortunately, your site mandates a three-day waiting period before submitting original material.
Also unfortunate, there is no contact information on-site for administration, or to submit news tips.
The only option for releasing the information on your site (before next week) was to submit the release as a comment in a place that Pols’ admin was sure to find it; a misleading gossip story from 2007.
This method worked quickly, considering new campaigns are forced to submit breaking news in such a non-traditional fashion. Thanks!
Sure there is, but it is a bit hard to find. It’s the link “Email Pols” directly to the right of your post. It sends an e-mail to webmaster@coloradopols.com — they check it fairly regularly and get back to serious inquiries promptly.
You could also probably reach Pols through Twitter.
It’s also common to post up random announcements in the day’s open thread. Or to sign up more than an hour or two in advance of trying to get your message out.
Of course emailing the “webmaster” was an option, but it offered little assurance that the release would make Pols today. The lingo is a little out-of-date, and the term typically refers to a technical position, not an editor or a member of the core writing staff. I’m sure you can understand the confusion. Check out facethestate’s contact page to see what real site administration looks like.
Pols’ Twitter account does not allow the messaging function, and did not reciprocate a follow from this morning.
Signing up in advance of today would have inevitably started a swirl of rumors before paperwork was properly filed.
Other suggestions? Is anybody interested in discussing the election? Actual issues pertaining to the gubernatorial candidates? I mean gossip is good, but it feels a little hollow.
It was best to post the announcement in a two-year-old thread about something embarrassing to McInnis.
That he formed an exploratory committee and then decided not to run to be with his family? I’m sure he blushed all the way home.
That he was strong-armed out of the race — in favor of a guy he felt couldn’t’a beat the Democrat — in part because of alarming ethical questions? You’re right, he probably didn’t blush one bit, and that’s what’s disturbing.
He left the race to be with his family. Just like every top executive that is booted from a company says he/she is “leaving to spend more time with his/her family and to pursue other opportunities.”
It has been well-documented, here and elsewhere, that Scott McInnis has floated his name for Governor or U.S. Senate virtually every year since he left Congress. Hell, he even once floated his name for Sheriff. He wanted to run for Senate two years ago — he didn’t just walk away because he changed his mind. We all know that. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Cool. You realy know how to relate to people, from the looks of your comments so far. Some prime examples:
Will you be talking down to us for the next year and a half or is this just a once time, really special occasion?
I’ll vote for him if he wears a shirt that says “Mustache Rides: 25 cents” to at least one Lincoln Day Dinner. Those are my terms.
Here’s the full text of Pols’ “misleading gossip story from 2007” –
That’s the whole post. And isn’t that actually what happened?
What so “misleading” about this, or are you just not using the right anti-Pols boilerplate script because you’re a little flustered?
One more thing, dude: your attempt to convolutedly explain away such a simple and obvious mistake is really, really hilarious. Like the Pols said, keep the shit coming.
“decided that he will be a candidate” and “formed an exploratory committee” are two very different actions. Maybe we have a different understanding of the term “exploratory committee”.
It’s fine that you jumped the gun on naming Scott as a Senate candidate. But deciding not to run and pulling out of a race after declaring are not one in the same.
…did Scotty decide to run only 1 day prior to your post? Poor planning = Pols emergency?
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Updating their page…Is liberal funding down so much that they are using three year old quotes…
Where’s the advertising…
How do I post a release? Oh that’s right…go to Face the State…they have a way.
..oh well, better luck on your next attempt
give him a break. Obviously when they dusted off the old press list from the congressional office there wasn’t any contact info for this thing we’ve all come to know as “colorado pols.”
They must have been beating their heads against the wall when no one from the Rocky Mountain News would call them back!
Oh, you’re implying that Pols is a member of the news media. Got it.
Why, what happened to the Rocky? <–dripping with sarcasm
You guys have really got this Internet thing down.
You appear to have gotten a high snark to noise ratio in the posts below. Don’t let it get to you. I for one am looking forward to pounding you over substantial issues of policy instead of when/how you first posted.
It’s never been so refreshing to be called out by the opposition for an issue debate.
I mean that sincerely.
I was beginning to think that nobody here was interested in actual political discussion.
I welcome any honest campaign representation, as opposed to Penry campaigners posing as ordnary citizens (I’m looking at you, Mesa”Moderate”).
we’re all still waiting to “hear you now” on the extremely embarassing fuck up yesterday.
Who’s idea was it to use the canadian pictures?
You all were sure quick to get on this thread and “defend” Congressman McInnis over the first fuck up of the day (reminding people of his cold feet syndrome) so why have you been so absent on the major story?
Is his campaign some sort of class project for some high school students or something?
Glad to see someone decided to make the campaign real, despite where it was posted, which is nit-picking at best. Who cares where it was posted as long as the news was released.
Speaking of news, hearing that Penry moved his announcement date to July 11th. Can anyone confirm this?
Maybe Pols can, then he would be forced to move his announcement date back another few weeks.
Actually, that could be fun. Pols releases the date, Penry states Pols won’t get the news and he continues to move the date,in order for Pols to not have the edge until it’s too late. HA! HA!
where they tie a wallet onto a fishing line and cast it out into an intersection. Every time somebody would reach down to grab it, they’d pull it just out of reach…
OK, so maybe it was youtube, not candid camera…
Scott McInnis was in the big leagues briefly and is now permanently in the minor leagues. Scooter is the Captain of a team of misfits that will never make it to the big leagues.
My Crystal Ball has Penry vs. Ritter in November 2010 with Ritter the early favorite. In October of 2010 Scooter will issue a statement saying how he would have been the stronger candidate.