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August 05, 2009 08:46 PM UTC

Good and Bad Attacks from McInnis

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As The Denver Post reports, GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is working on his attacks. Some are better than others:

At a fundraiser in Greenwood Village on Tuesday night, McInnis ripped the governor, saying Ritter was more interested in his re-election campaign than handling delays at the Department of Labor and Employment, which has been besieged with unemployment claims.

“Get these unemployment checks out of the door. It means something to somebody,” McInnis said.

“You know at the department of labor, these people all get their paychecks on the 30th of the month,” McInnis said. “They don’t have to worry if they’re getting their paycheck or not.”

Why McInnis would attack state employees is beyond us, especially since they are all being forced to take furlough days to help with the budget crisis. There are more than 30,000 state employees, and we’d assume most of them vote.

But the messaging wasn’t all bad for McInnis.

McInnis also took a swipe at his most formidable GOP opponent, state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, of Grand Junction, although he never mentioned Penry by name.

“Somebody told me the other day, ‘I kind of like a fresh face,’ ” McInnis said.

“I said, ‘Good, keep that in mind the next time you’re in an accident and they rush you to the emergency room. Say to them, ‘You know, I want the new doctor, the one that just graduated from medical school.’

We’ve said before that we think Josh Penry’s age is an issue that will become more and more of a problem for him as the campaign progresses, and McInnis’ comparison to a new doctor is a great line. Voters across the country have been willing to elect younger candidates to Congress and U.S. Senate, but will they really pull the lever for a young candidate to lead the entire state?  

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21 thoughts on “Good and Bad Attacks from McInnis

    1. Scott “PacMan” McInnis is more like Dr. Gower: Experience doesnt ammount to much if you put the wrong pills in the wrong bottle.

      (Yes. I did indeed use an Its A Wonderful Life Reference)

  1. It’s not just his age, there’s also the fact that he has never actually done anything except be a Republican mouthpiece or politician.  Hmmm … Wasn’t their test for fitness for office that  the candidate had  met a payroll?

  2. that he was insulting the abilities of doctors right out of medical school at an event called Young Professionals for McInnis?  Might there have been a few young doctors in the crowd that were less than ecstatic about this line of attack?

    “Thank you for your money and your support, but if I come to the emergency room I’m going to need someone else for fear you’ll kill me.”

    1. Cheat

      Your video leaves out all the shady McLobbyist business ventures lurking in the margins of the upcoming general election.

      The Campaign money laundering is just the tip of the quickly melting McInnis Ice Burg.

  3. Voters across the country have been willing to elect younger candidates to Congress and U.S. Senate, but will they really pull the lever for a young candidate to lead the entire state?

    Well, Colorado voters were comfortable electing a young man to lead the entire Federal government. Sure, Penry is younger than Obama, but given the nature of the respective offices Coloradoans’ comfort with Obama bodes well for Penry.  

        1. Or are you thinking of GW, who could throw a ball fairly well (not well enough to get on Yale’s team) but couldn’t govern a country?

          Only Republicans could possibly raise some as superficial as this to serious commentary.

    1. Let me know the next time Penry gets 100,000 people to come to listen to him talk at Civic Center Park.

      Once you get past their superficial similarities (age, time spent in the state legislature) the comparisons end.

      The reasons behind the majority of Coloradans voting for Barack Obama in 2008 had nothing to do with his age. It had everything to do with his policies.

  4. but the doctor line is a pretty good zinger.

    As to Penry’s age, is it really going to be an issue with voters or is it just McInnis’s wet dream that it will be because I could honestly care less about his age. What he stands for, on the other hand, counts for everything with me.  

    1. Scott is the more likeable of the two candidates.  Politics is more about running a good popularity contest than it is about actual policies.  The only time policies seem to matter is when we are having to vote for the lesser of two evils.  I’m not sure this race between Penry and McInnis has landed in the “lesser of two evils” category yet.  So far Scott is playing well within the party, but Penry has some major support.

  5. Mike Hesse issues statements on behalf of McInnis For Governor.

    Than it turns out Hesse works for an “independent” Committee.

    Has everyone just forgotten what happened to McInnis pal Marc Holtzman when he used the No on C and D Campaign to benefit his short lived campaign for Governor?  

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