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Democratic legislators concerned by House reapportionment maps

By | 08.02.11 | 7:18 am

Many Democrats are standing behind concerns raised by former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb last week after Webb said that Republican members of the Colorado Reapportionment Commission were playing it fast and loose with constitutional requirements when redrawing the state legislative boundaries.

McInnis says he paid taxes on entire ill-gotten $300,000

By | 07.22.10 | 1:29 pm

One-time Republican frontrunner for governor Scott McInnis told the Colorado Independent he paid taxes on the entire $300,000 he was paid by Hasan Family Foundation to produce a handful of articles that, as has been widely reported, McInnis didn’t write but mostly lifted from papers written years ago by Gregory Hobbs, now a Colorado Supreme Court Justice.

But the money wasn’t all paid directly to McInnis. According to Foundation tax returns, McInnis received the $300,000 in three installments, including one in 2006 for $112,500, which went to Invest 2 LLC, a now defunct limited liability corporation that listed McInnis’s wife Lori as its registered agent.

Wadhams: GOP voters will ‘determine our nominees’

By | 07.15.10 | 5:26 pm

Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams issued the following statement Thursday amid reports the party is looking to replace former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis on the GOP gubernatorial primary ballot against Dan Maes on Aug. 10.

McInnis is embroiled…

Fischer tells Channel 7 McInnis is lying

By | 07.15.10 | 8:27 am

Rolland “Rolly” Fischer, the former head of the Colorado River Water Conservation District now at the heart of the Scott McInnis plagiarism scandal, told Denver’s Channel 7 Wednesday that McInnis is lying.

McInnis, a Republican gubernatorial candidate and…

Ethics Watch asks for probe of McInnis plagiarism reports

By | 07.14.10 | 3:52 pm

Colorado Ethics Watch Wednesday asked the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation to open an investigation into the Denver Post report on Monday that former Congressman Scott McInnis, a Republican candidate for governor, plagiarized articles on water issues that were written…

McInnis says he never signed form saying articles were original

By | 07.14.10 | 1:31 pm

Radio host Craig Silverman Tuesday drilled into former Congressman Scott McInnis for his apparent plagiarism of now Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs’s writing on water issues in Colorado. Contrary to Denver Post reports, McInnis claimed he did not…