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Environmentalists blast Colorado’s new drilling task force as Trojan horse

By | 03.01.12 | 10:46 am

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s intervention in the debate over whether the state or local jurisdictions should regulate oil and gas drilling is rankling environmentalists who, two days earlier, called him out for making misleading statements on groundwater contamination.

Arizona guv Brewer stumbles on air; Coloradans think ‘Maes’

By | 09.02.10 | 11:19 am

Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes is a regular guy candidate backed by the tea party, which has no appetite for career politicians and party insiders. But Maes is a pretty lousy businessman and doesn’t know much about

Independent Jason R. Clark woos GOP voters in wake of McInnis nosedive

By | 07.21.10 | 11:32 am

In the wake of the over-the-top plagiarism scandal that is likely to sink the Republican gubernatorial candidacy of former Congressman Scott McInnis and in light of the dissections coming fast of the underwhelming peripatetic career and up-and-down

McInnis paid $300,000 by Hasan family for odd water research project

By | 06.15.10 | 9:00 am

Over the weekend, the Hasan Family Foundation posted a series of articles on its website called “Musings on Water” authored by GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis. These are some of the articles the six-term congressman authored for a hefty $300,000 from the prominent Colorado conservative donor Hasan family for work to be completed in 2005 and 2006. It’s a gig that would make even the few non-struggling writers in the state green with envy.

Maes tops McInnis for governor among GOP delegates

By | 05.22.10 | 3:31 pm

LOVELAND– Both major Republican candidates for governor will be on the August primary ballot. Dan Maes edged out Scott McInnis 1741-1725, taking 49.35 percent of the vote. “Wow,” Maes said after hearing the vote announced. “This is about you. This is about the people standing up and making their voices heard, telling us what is important, telling us what you want from government and not the other way around. We are just getting warmed up,” he told the few hundred people who stayed to the end of the assembly at the Budweiser Event Center here.

Maes: Campaign finance irregularities reflect payment for early expenses

By | 05.18.10 | 8:34 am

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes Monday said all of his campaign expenses are absolutely legitimate. Referring to a complaint filed against his campaign by a Republican activist from Grand Junction, he said, “It is frivolous and it needs to go away.” Maes said the reason his campaign has paid him $33,135 in mileage reimbursement since October is because when he began campaigning in March, 2009, he paid for most of his mileage out of pocket because the campaign had very little money.

McInnis support for Arizona immigration law drawing appalled reactions

By | 04.28.10 | 5:19 pm

Colorado Democratic Party leaders and rights groups are voicing appalled reaction to statements made Wednesday by GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, who lauded Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for signing tough, deeply controversial and perhaps unconstituional immigration laws in the country last week. McInnis said he would seek to do the same thing in Colorado were he to win election.

McInnis now says guarding tax forms to avoid revealing total law firm profits

By | 04.28.10 | 12:42 pm

On Monday, Scott McInnis campaign Communications Director Sean Duffy told the Colorado independent that McInnis’s income from law firm Hogan & Hartson was reported on K1 forms– forms used to report partnership income– and that McInnis would not…

On tour, Hickenlooper touts practical approach to economic recovery

By | 04.13.10 | 11:54 am

On Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper’s campaign across the state, whether in formal settings with industry leaders or at random meet-and-greets in bars and restaurants, one issue cuts across all voter demographics and comes up again and again: the economy.

Hickenlooper email: The tone’s the thing

By | 04.09.10 | 2:18 pm

Denver mayor and gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper sent out an email Friday asking readers to join his campaign. The mail reads like Hick talks: folksy and optimistic. It describes the responses he got when he asked Coloradans to send in…