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July 30, 2010 06:32 PM UTC
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takes money on the implicit condition he is not going to take another job, takes another job anyway, plagiarizes someone elses work and basically does nothing for the money (probably because he’s too busy at his other job), tries to pin his plagiarism on an old man who helped him out with the research, promises he is going to pay back the 300 K after the whole thing blows up and “make it right” then dosen’t.
Could he be any more unethical and dishonorable ? McInnis is disgusting.
And Jason, you missed one little (but telling) slip from McInnis: at the end of this part of the interview, when Ryan Warner reminds McInnis that he’s already vowed to repay the money, and asked him when he’s going to do that, he actually says, “I’ve got to repay — I’ve got to make this right. . .” and then goes on to talk about stuff other than paying them back. What a dishonest weasel. I guess he thinks if he repeats enough cliches about making it right, people will believe it.
Not that I’m surprised — he begins the whole discussion by blaming it all on Rollie Fischer but then says it’s his responsibility. He could not be more disingenuous.
by offering them his valuable services again after he’s laughed off the gubernatorial playing field. Maybe that and a fruit basket? A gift card? Flowers?
He’s going to “take full responsibility” for the plagiarism by attempting to pin it on an 82 year old man who is completely innocent, and now he’s going to “make it right” by not repaying the money he promised he would. WTF.
would consider this a little extreme in terms of creating one’s own reality. The man is a sociopath, a compulsive liar and needs to be on meds in order to keep in touch with reality. But don’t worry righties…Tank is here to save you!
It’s always good to live in Colorado but it’s shaping up to be especially good for Dems in 2010. Thanks, Dick Wadhams. You sure can pick ’em.
Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
http://www.cpr.org/index.php?o…
Ryan Warner: Have you paid back the $300,000?
Scott McInnis: No, we have not. But we are going to do what it takes to fix it.
Warner: My understanding is certainly that the Hasans want the money repaid, and I thought you agreed to that.
McInnis: Well, I have. I mean, I’ve got to make it right. That’s my point. What shape that takes, whether it’s the funds or whatever it is, it’s going to have to be done. I have got to make it right.
In this CPR interview, Scooter indicates a couple of times that the fundamental problem with his having palmed-off stolen water-law analysis was the failure to have provided “footnotes,” presumably ones referencing Greg Hobbs’ original source. He also indicates that one (or possibly now the preferred) way to now “make that right” would be to retroactively supply such footnotes.
It is of course impossible to tell if he really is that stupid (or that ethically bereft) to believe that one can rectify massive plagiarism merely by sticking on a footnote referring to the original author, of if that’s just the best talking point his handlers devised once he balked at the prospect of actually signing a $300,000 check.
… and will say “Except it’s not.”
Scooter does not have $300K cash on hand to send to the Hasan Family Foundation.
Since what he’s “paying back” (if he ever gets around to it) was income run through his LLC.
… so I can’t see any way Scooter could use campaign funds to pay a liability he incurred (a) for a wrong he committed as a person rather than as a candidate (b) at a time when he wasn’t running for anything. Scooter paying this 300K liability with campaign funds would be legally identical to Scooter paying 300K in liability for a car accident with campaign funds. No way, no how.
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after he shuts down his campaign, Scott will give $500 to the Norton Campaign, if she’s the candidate, and the rest to a Colorado-based charity.
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Charity gives $300K to McInnis which he pockets. McInnis reimburses the charity with campaign funds.
In New Jersey, where I come from, we called that money laundering.
That’s a pretty big assumption that McInnis intends to pay it back out of campaign funds. Let’s get some indication that’s going to happen before drawing these conclusions.
People see that McInnis is well off and assume he’s got a spare 300K. But well off in most cases still means cash poor. Paying that much could be very painful or even impossible.
I don’t buy the Hasan’s story. This whole deal was never meant to be public, and was understood by both sides to be a payoff-for what, we may never know with any certainty. Maybe favors past, and certainly favors in the future. When McInnis wouldn’t even endorese Ali,the Hasans hung him out to dry. Makes sense to me-any criminal, especially one with a law degree, ought to understand that a deal’s a deal. When you’re operating outside the law, you need to keep your implicit word. McInnis thought that he could both screw the Hasans out of $300K and disrespect their son. They took him down, which should be lesson to all of us in politics. Never welsh on a deal-you’re never as powerful as you think.
Power is where the money is.
You are as despicable as the candidate for whom you shill.
But hey, you McInnis trolls are entitled to your own version of the truth.
I hate having to type something in from a scanned PDF.
The point is, McInnis was told IN WRITING that the documents he was to produce were for the public.
That’s a whole lot different than what you said, H-dog.
Scooter will scoot out of returning the money. If he stiffs waitresses out of tips in Glenwood Springs, he certainly is not giving up $300,000. Maybe Mrs McDrill will try her hand at writing about water….it’s ok to pay her with campaign funds, right?
He’s going to ‘make it right,’