( – promoted by Colorado Pols)
UPDATE: I’ve been informed that the Colorado Statesman previously published the fact that McInnis wanted a fellowship extension. The Statesman reported online July 12:
In 2006, when it came time to consider renewing McInnis’ fellowship, [Malik] Hasan said the former congressman’s job performance made the foundation’s decision an easy one.
“The feeling was, if he did a good job, we would review it and extend it for another year or two,” Hasan said. “After two years, Scott called and asked if it would be extended. I said, ‘In good faith, I cannot recommend that to the foundation board.'” The fellowship terminated after running out its original period, Hasan said.
Even if I got it wrong on the Chieftain’s scoop, and I apologize, you’ll still find your perfect Sunday reading material in the Pueblo Chieftain today.
It’s about the relationship between Scott McInnis and Malik Hasan that led to the Hasan Family Foundation giving McInnis a two-year $300,000 fellowship to write and speak about Colorado water issues.
You won’t find too much that’s earth-shattering in the piece, even though a lot of it is illuminating, but one bit of information came out that deserved its own headline: McInnis wasn’t satisfied with his two-year $300,000 deal from the Hasan foundation. He wanted to extend it, according to Hasan.
The Chieftain reported:
“He was interested in an extension” of the fellowship, Hasan said. “So he submitted this flood of articles [at the end of the fellowship] that I believe Rolly Fischer helped with. At that point, we said, ‘Scott, you have got to be kidding.’ “
Other than that news item, today’s Chieftain opens a window on a world, occupied by the Hasans and McInnis, that you know is out there but still you wonder if it really does exist.
I would have liked to have heard from others who knew both the Hasans and McInnis, and different views on the McInnis-Hasan relationship should have been included. But for what this piece is – basically an interview with Malik Hasan-it’s great reading.
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I just finished reading the article.
Malik sticks the knife into Scooter’s chest and then twists it. But, he does it in the nicest possible manner. But, reading between the lines, you can tell that Malik and Seeme are pissed.
This will get zero attention if Scooter loses to Crazy Dan. But, if Scooter is the Repub nominee, then this will doom him.
What a complete and utter sleazeball.
He’d have been perfect for the Mesa State job.
(drumroll please)
Ward Churchill.
I read the story early this morning and frankly felt bad that Mr. Hasan has joined in the ‘take down McInnis at any price’ campaign. If you would like to read a rather lengthy background story that was the beginning of the end for any relationship between the Hasan family and a number of active Republicans here it is.
http://www.westword.com/2008-0…
Of course as Mr. Hasan says:
With shoddy workmanship and finger-pointing.
No one to blame but Scott himself. He got an easy patronage job and blew it.
You know better or you should Ralphie.
If that means “pure” to you, so be it.
McInnis screwed it up. He could have done the work he was being paid for, but he didn’t. Then he put his name on someone else’s work.
No one to blame but himself.
This line from the Chieftan article sums it up neatly and with an ironic bow:
If McInnis had truly devoted himself to his fellowship, it could have catapulted him into the governor’s office instead of becoming the issue that may have driven his campaign off the tracks, in Hasan’s opinion.
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If he’d only kept his word.
Sigh!
Been a long time since I’ve seen your signer here. And you hit it on the head. A thorough exposition of Colorado’s water law and development, which is well within Scott’s capabilities, would have left him well poised to lead a Reublican resurgence. As it is, whom the Gods would destroy, they first give $300,000 no-work fellowships.
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to me, at least, is how the $300,000 figure was arrived at – basically, the foundation gave Scooter a job for two years at the salary he would have made as president of Mesa State.
Just how that figure came out has been the subject of a lot of questions here and in other blogs throughout the summer. Most people would kill for that kind of money to do the kind of work McInnis eventually produced, and many has said they would have done a better job for a lot less.
Good work on the part of the Chieftain reporter.
A better deal than being at Mesa, where he would have had to, like, you know……work.