January 06, 2011 07:34 PM UTC

And Now, Something Completely Ridiculous

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Don Knox reports that McInnis won’t be returning to his job at Hogan Lovells (formerly Hogan and Hartson), which had been expected by folks familiar with his position there. So…he’s…honestly, we don’t think “available” is the right description.

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We’ll bet money you can’t hold a straight face through this AP report–as you know, the director of Western Slope civic engagement organization Club 20, Reeves Brown, was selected by Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper to head the state Department of Local Affairs.

And so Club 20 has a job opening. Guess who wants to fill it?

Club 20 Chairman Jeff Comstock tells the Daily Sentinel newspaper in Grand Junction that he expects the executive director position to be posted later this week.

Former congressman Scott McInnis of Grand Junction says he would be willing to fill the post on an interim basis. McInnis lost the Republican gubernatorial primary to Dan Maes in November…

That’s right, folks, scandalized ex-gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is “willing” to head the Western Slope’s principal representative group of business and local governments. McInnis said a few weeks ago that he had a plan to “clear his name” at some unspecified point in the future, after revelations of plagiarism in work he did for a local foundation derailed his bid for governor.

We would suggest he, uh, do so before he even thinks about a job like this, let alone publicly float his name. Failing that, McInnis has simply given the world a punchline for yet another joke.