Article unclear. Is Tancredo a candidate for governor? Hasn’t filing already come and gone? I know they have either an Aug. or Sept. primary.
We have Scott McInnis, on one hand, that was paid $300K or $150K for two years to write a paper on water for a foundation a few years back. Turns out that the info was partly? wholly? written by an elderly man that didn't cite some of his sources. At the time, the foundation was told that the paper was written by McInnis. Now, McInnis tried to throw the elderly man under the bus, have him sign something that it was all his fault. Rolly Fischer is speaking out:
Rolly Fischer on video and article by 7 News
According to the daughter of the foundation on a local talk show today, McInnis was supposed to do more work for that his fee, but then got another job. That's when they severed ties with him. Now,since all this has come out, they want their $300K back.
Then you have Dan Maes, who is not well known. He's had some of his own problems recently having to pay a large fine for not reporting campaign finance info correctly. I don't think it's clear what exactly Dan Maes does for a living. Neither Maes nor McInnis will release their tax returns.
For Senate we have Ken Buck, running against Jane Norton. He's recently had his own past problems come to light--brought out by Jane Norton in a nasty ad. A lot of people are not pleased with her for running that ad. Ken Buck, speaking about McInnis, came out and said that he needs to do what's best for Scott McInnis which I think is a pretty telling statement.
Tom Tancredo supports Ken Buck and spoke at some kind of rally for him in the recent past. Then Ken Buck says something nasty about what Tancredo said at that rally. Now he's saying Tancredo was right.
It's just all fouled up. A caller or pundit made the point, that without a strong candidate at the top of the ticket for governor, it will likely foul up the chances for the rest of the R's.
Scott McInnis is refusing to exit. People have stated that his ego is pretty big. One person in politics said that he was a McInnis supporter, will still vote for him in the primary, with the hopes that he will knock Dan Maes out, but then quit himself so someone else with a better chance can win. Lots of ifs going on there. At this point, I think we are pretty much screwed here in CO. Still have a little hope that things will get straightened out, but not much.