It’s a good thing Congre$$man McScandal raised a hefty chunk of change this quarter. He’s gonna need it.
After a fumbling, bumbling start of his campaign — followed up by his admitted law-breaking on voicemail — then a good ol’ fashioned whoopin’ at the GOP Straw Poll last month, it’s clear the McInnis braintrust (sorry if I just made you spit your coffee out) has decided to petition on to the ballot.
This strategy reminds us of 2006 when Napoleon Holtzman set out to buy his way on to the ballot, just to learn the hard way that money isn’t all that matters.
No one should fool themselves. McInnis spent 12 years in Congress and the last 5 years as a corporate lawyer-lobbyist. He has plenty of favors to call in. The question is: considering it will cost him no less than $500,000 to petition his way on to the ballot next year, where will he go to raise money the next couple of quarters? Can he pay for petition circulators and still keep Hesse, Duffy, Culpepper, Tonner, etc. whole? Will he continue using federal PAC money to pay his staff and family under the table? Enquiring minds want to know…
PS — Wouldn’t it be nice if the media asked questions like: “Congre$$man, are you 100% committed to going through the caucus/convention process next year?” We all assume his plan is to go around the party next year (based on his antics in Keystone) but let’s get some confirmation, eh?
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McInnis has been saying since at least February he’s planning to petition onto the ballot.
Lamborn did the same thing last year — it’s a winning Republican tradition.
then he’ll use $500,000 in contributions to buy his way on?
This is sad, I thought he was a hard worker and fiscal conservative.
Are the people who like to ask questions about “will so-and-so go to the caucus?” Usually those people ask the question because their preferred candidate (like Josh Penry) would perform strongest at the caucus.
Nobody else cares. The caucus is an insiders-insider event that has no bearing whatsoever on what will happen in the August primary. It’s a relic of another era. Many of Colorado’s top politicians bypassed the caucus, including Sen. Mark Udall when he first ran for Congress.
He’ll be let on the dustheap of history for this along with Lamborn, Coffman, Tancredo, and all those other Republicans who tried petitioning on.
Didn’t Holtzy essentially try to get on the ballot both ways (ironic strategy)?
He went to the assembly (which was a nightmare because voting took three days to complete and count), came up short (no pun intended), then tried to petition on but again came up short, went to court, lost and then got hit by the Trailhead lawyers for their litigaton costs?
If things turn out just right, he’ll end up on the ballot next year.