The Grand Junction Sentinel reports:
The race between two Republicans for the party’s nomination for governor will come down to their differences over the handling of the Army’s desire to expand Fort Carson, Evergreen businessman Dan Maes said Friday.
He and Scott McInnis, the front-running former U.S. representative from Grand Junction, have different views on the issue, Maes said in an interview after he spoke to the monthly luncheon of the Mesa County Republican Party at Two Rivers Convention Center.
Ranchers and others in southeastern Colorado oppose the Army’s efforts to expand Fort Carson’s 35,000-acre training area by at least 100,000 acres.
McInnis “is clearly in favor” of the Army’s plans, Maes said, and “I feel there should be a resolution between the Army and the ranchers.”
The contest, he said, will be decided by the difference between the two on private-property rights…
Maes said he hopes to gain 71 percent support from delegates to the GOP’s state convention this spring, forcing McInnis to make a “hard choice” whether to petition onto the ballot and force a primary election or withdraw.
Maes, 49, said he’ll rely on his business background to persuade voters he has the executive experience needed in the governor’s mansion, and he’ll avoid a destructive primary fight by stressing his strengths and conservative beliefs.
“You don’t have to put a contract in front of me to make me behave like a conservative,” he told the Mesa County Republicans.
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and not Pinon Canyon.
Some people complain that using the accented Г± doesn’t look right on their browser.
Actually, we’re just lazy and were waiting for somebody to give us an example to cut and paste. Thank you.
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Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map
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That solution will work if Windows and soapblox use the same charset, but what if they don’t?
Maybe that’s the problem with the rss feed.
It’s not like anyone will think it isn’t the word with the mark that one needs to contort to produce.
Sheesh.
You just type option-n n and you get Г±.
Is that a Mac thing?
I type alt-n n to get Г±.
for people who grew up in or have lived in CaГ±on City. The group is dedicated to the uniqueness of the town itself, and the Г± in its name is part of that uniqueness. Of course endless numbers of people don’t get it, and refer to it as “Cannon” City.
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Canyon is obviously not an “English” word, but an “Americanism”.
But I do think he could get well over 50%. Here’s why (not because I wrote it, but based on the response it has received from the right).
…wants to weigh in. If you got to select Colorado’s next governor, but could only choose either Scott McInnis or Dan Maes, which would you choose, and why?
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Since this is a fantasy land where Dems would be voting for either of them, couldn’t we have someone like Hank Brown or Don Marostica to vote for?
He brought us C&D – that’s someone I could vote for.
With Maes we know what we get. With McInnis we have no idea what he will or will not do. If left to these two I’m with Ralphie – I wouldn’t vote.
See Quillen’s column in the Post.
Maes has been forthright on where he stands.
Private property Republican vs anti-private property Republican. I can’t get enough of this… McInnis is going to pay for this in the general. With Hickenlooper’s popularity with independents and moderate republicans in the metro area, he needs all of the support he can get from the ranchers
Why does he forsake the area he used to represent? Could it be $$$$$?
He’s just made the bet that he gains more primary votes in the Springs than he loses elsewhere. Once he’s running in the general, he’ll find some way to “modify” his position.
I was at an event over the weekend where McInnis unequivocally stated that he would not support eminent domain or condemnation for any of the areas in SE CO. He did say that it was a private property right and that he would defend an individual’s right to sell just as hard as we would defend an individual’s right not to sell. That seems fair to me. He also said he was not willing to close the door on the issue because willing sellers had been in contact with him. He named names of willing sellers, but I don’t remember the names.
What can a governor do on this issue anyways? It’s really a useless topic at the state level.