September 02, 2009 02:58 AM UTC

Colorado Pols in the News

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• by: Colorado Pols

Sean Duffy, spokesperson for the Scott McInnis campaign for Governor, gave Westword a call yesterday and tossed in a few shout outs about Colorado Pols (this post by a Pols user no doubt had something to do with that). From the Westword blog:

Got a call moments ago from Sean Duffy, spokesman for Scott McInnis’ gubernatorial campaign, responding to a post about what I consider to be the candidate’s two latest mistakes: complaining in writing about an impending Republican Party straw poll that he could well lose and then declining to attend the gathering at which the survey will take place. During the subsequent conversation, Duffy not only defended these moves, but he also discussed other perceived McInnis gaffes to date, including a website botch and a heated appearance on the KHOW talk show co-hosted by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. In addition, he contrasted criticism coming from the political blogosphere with the concerns of the average citizen.

“We’re not saying this chatter is irrelevant,” Duffy stresses. “But we’d be abjectly insane to live and die by the folks at Colorado Pols running weird pictures of Scott. [Pols emphasis] That’s important, but a lot of times, it can pull you off the fact that it’s only August. Most people are focused on getting their kids back to school right now. There’s .1 percent of us who are banging around about these things.”

We’ve been posting weird pictures of Scott McInnis? Really?

Duffy would know, since he apparently reads Pols:

How to counter such attacks? By McInnis taking his message directly to the people. “Scott talked to the South Metro Chamber of Commerce a couple of weeks ago,” Duffy allows, “and we went down there thinking people would be talking all about the Caplis thing. But what they really wanted to hear about were jobs and how to keep their small businesses going and what the heck Ritter is doing with unions. That was a pretty good lesson. If you jump in and out of Colorado Pols three or four times a day, you’d think everyone is fascinated by Caplis and so on. [Pols emphasis] But when you get down into Arapahoe County and Douglas County and Jefferson County, people want to know, ‘What are you going to do to fix the economy?’ That’s why, even though we play in both sandboxes, we’re much more focused on the one outside — the one that’s not within five or six blocks of the Capitol.”

Thanks for the shout outs, Sean.