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CU Regents urge McInnis to step down

By | 07.14.10 | 5:11 pm

Yet more calls for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to step down are coming in, this time from some of the University of Colorado Regents who affirmed the decision to dismiss Ward Churchill from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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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…

Tancredo’s Turkey Day tale: Multiculturalism sucks!

By | 12.01.09 | 1:19 pm

Colorado’s controversial former U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo spun an edifying Thanksgiving yarn over the holiday week. It was, you might say, an alternative reading of the story of the Pilgrims and the Indians. Among other things, listeners to his show Wednesday learned that, although slavery was not good, African Americans are better off for having been brought out of Africa to live in America and Native American culture is not environmentally friendly, that the trash piled up on reservations tells the real story!

Colo. GOP ‘Platform’ covered by Wall Street Journal, panned by readers

By | 12.01.09 | 10:14 am

The conservative national paper of record, the Wall Street Journal, reported on the Colorado Republican Party “Platform for Prosperity” today, describing it as a “bold move” to win over the “restive tea party activists.” The tea partiers interviewed…

RNC’s Jim Bopp authors purity resolution for Republican candidates

By | 11.23.09 | 1:09 pm

David Weigel at The Washington Independent reports on the latest resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, the Indiana RNC member who admonished Chairman Michael Steele to embrace the word “socialists” in referring to

Udall Takes First Swipe at McInnis

By | 02.01.07 | 11:06 am

The political achilles heel of lawyer-lobbyist and expected U.S. Senate candidate Scott McInnis got tweaked this morning when Rep. Mark Udall (D-Eldorado Springs) announced his support for the Candidate Anti-Corruption Act, a bi-partisan bill that would prohibit the use of…