November 12, 2009 07:30 PM UTC

What McInnis might say

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• by: Alan

(Let’s roll! – promoted by ThillyWabbit)

At the ProgressNow Bat Cave yesterday (also known as my co-worker Jen’s teeny windowless office), we got to talking about Scott “McLobbyist” McInnis and the coup recently scored on his behalf in the Republican gubernatorial primary. It’s really odd that Josh Penry left the race so suddenly, isn’t it? And most media reported that a big reason Penry left the race was an “independent committee” set up to fight off any challengers to McInnis.

This immediately got us thinking about our call last May for an investigation of McInnis after he left a voice mail message, leaked on the internet subsequently, describing in detail ‘his 527’–inviting questions about illegal coordination between McInnis and ‘his’ so-called “independent committees.” What happened this week to Penry could be seen as a confirmation of our worst fears.

What we at ProgressNow would really like to do is talk to McInnis about this, get his response to these potentially serious allegations on the record. Unfortunately, McInnis doesn’t grant very many interviews. And some of the interviews he has granted haven’t gone so well.

But then we remembered, we’ve got McInnis on the record addressing these very questions: the voice mail! If Scott McInnis were to come clean about his questionable campaign activities as we’ve called for over and over again, here’s how we imagine the interview going. Not a real conversation, obviously!

It would be nice to have this kind of candor in the non-parody world, wouldn’t it?

Posted at ProgressNow Colorado