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Maes says Tancredo’s threat to run just ‘Tom being Tom’

Republican candidates for governor Scott McInnis and Dan Maes today called Former Congressman Tom Tancredo’s bluff. Tancredo announced Thursday that he would enter the race as a third-party candidate if McInnis and Maes don’t announce that they will both drop out after the primary next month.

Republicans furiously reversing themselves in wake of Tancredo attacks

It’s been a flip-flop-athon of late on the campaign trail, and former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo’s been the root cause of most of the...

VIDEO: McInnis muses on his ‘intense background on business and water’

ColoradoBiz TV treats political observers to a perhaps unintentionally comic video of GOP candidate for governor Scott McInnis talking about his expertise on water...

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

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.

McInnis reportedly yet to arrange repayment for plagiarized articles

It has been six days since embattled GOP candidate for governor Scott McInnis said he would repay the $300,000 paid to him by the...

McInnis, Dudley beat the heat in Aspen last week

Apparently Aspen is a great place to escape both the summer heat and the heat of a gubernatorial campaign experiencing some turbulence. Former Colorado congressman...

McInnis closely guarding Hasan Foundation payback arrangements

Journalists may not like to think of themselves playing school teachers to public officials and candidates, but they often serve this function. Are...

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

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...

McInnis poll numbers plummet in wake of plagiarism scandal

Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has tied former Republican Scott McInnis for the first time in the Colorado race for governor, suggesting voters have...

Maes: Post articles have been fair despite GOP attacks on paper

CENTENNIAL - Arapahoe and Denver County Republican leaders railed on the Denver Post Friday night, saying the newspaper has been attacking their candidates as...