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February 08, 2010 01:28 AM UTC

Scott McInnis is on the beat

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  • by: mikerobinsonpc

You should never annoy a cop.  As a working lawyer in the suburbs with a criminal docket, it has been my sad experience over the years to have clients who insist on going to trial for a misdemeanor crime.  At trial, it is my guy’s word against the cop’s.  The jury hears the defendant’s pitch and then hears from the cop.  The cop is simply doing his duty.  He isn’t out to get anyone.  The client wants to get off of the rap for the crime he has committed.  The party’s motives come into play.

My experience is that the Jury always believes the cop if its one word against the other.  And it’s no surprise.  For juries, cops are usually seen as the good guys.

If you are a cop, you can be in trouble every time you approach someone you pulled over.  Even in small towns.  Even in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.  In 2006, the most recent year with public crime records for Glenwood, seven women were raped, 61 burglaries occurred, 43 cars were stolen and one armed robbery occurred.  

In little old Glenwood Springs.  Fortunately no cops got killed.

Scott McInnis was a Glenwood Springs cop.  As if that weren’t enough, he also volunteered with the fire department.  He later went to law school and became a lawyer in the same town he patrolled as a police officer.  He demonstrates to this day that he never forgot his oath of office.

McInnis ran and was elected as member of the Colorado State Assembly, our state version of congress.  The other Assembly members eventually made him Majority Leader.  He ran for U.S. Congress and became Colorado’s congressman for the Western Slope.

McInnis got us two national parks as a congressman and he always fought to shrink the size and scope of government as a simple point of principal. He went to Washington for 12 years and then came home.

He got work here as a private lawyer and watched the same events transpire in Colorado over the past four years that we all have.  The Democrats became the majority in Colorado government and their new Governor named Ritter brought Labor Unions into the government work force.  The Colorado State Government ran out of money but somehow couldn’t shrink its taxpayer-paid work force to match our smaller state revenue stream.  We got into the hole and the dems tried to raise taxes instead of shrinking the government machinery.  

The majority Democrats passed increased taxes on natural gas production and the oil and gas jobs somehow ended up in Pennsylvania of all places.  Our only local airline got swallowed up by a Midwest concern and all those jobs moved to the Midwest because of tax decisions, including the ludicrous idea to tax software used in making an airline reservation.  The dems have engineered a train wreck since they took over our state government.  It’s enough to annoy a cop.  It’s enough to annoy a jury.  It’s enough to annoy anyone.  Including Scott McInnis.  So he has decided to do something about it.

Scott McInnis is running to be Governor for the State of Colorado.  He knows this place.  It is his home and the home of his family going back four generations.  Right now, it appears that if anybody in Colorado is ready to get us out of the hole we are in, it’s McInnis.  

Last week, Mr. McInnis spoke to the Parker, CO Republicans.  He gave out the sobering statistic that each day 275 more Coloradans lose their job.  He thinks the Dems in charge at the state Capital are “job cremators, not job creators”.   His empathy for these workers is real and profound.  

Addressing jobs in the area of natural gas production, he talked eloquently about the blue collar jobs that have left the state.  “Roughneck jobs are great jobs.  These are some of the good jobs that have left our state.  Grand Junction is now Number One in the Nation in job losses and energy is the reason.  Gov. Ritter put in the toughest anti-drilling legislation in the U.S.  Conoco-Phillips stopped all exploration when the new regulations became law.”

Bill Ritter wisely chose not to seek reelection as our governor.  The Dems have put up Denver Mayor and saloon keeper John Hickenlooper as his replacement after an emergency phone call from Dem President  Barack Obama.  I expect Hickenlooper, after his long tenure as a bartender, to carry the Lower Downtown of Denver by a healthy margin. That leaves the rest of Colorado for him to reach.   McInnis’ opinion – “The Denver Mayor seems to think that Colorado begins and ends at the Denver City Limits.”   McInnis doesn’t think Hickenlooper gets it.  At the Parker meeting he was most incensed by a recent Hickenlooper quote that “the recession is really caused by people’s mental state”.  Spoken like a true bartender.

McInnis told the Parker crowd that he will dedicate himself to restoring jobs.  He used the issue of Fort Carson as an example of what to do and what not to do.  According to McInnis, both Ritter and Hickenlooper are against Fr. Carson’s expansion.  After they made their views public, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchins visited with the Secretary of the Army and got a commitment for the new Cyber Command to move to San Antonio.  This ought to have helped out our “mental state” a lot.

McInnis’ first promise, if elected, is to sign an executive order rolling back the unionization of state agencies.  So long Andy Stern and the SEIU.   Then to rewrite the job-killing oil and gas regulations and get oil companies to come back to Colorado.

In 2006, this writer had the opportunity to see Bill Ritter and Bob Beauprez at a joint appearance late in the campaign.  It appeared that Bill Ritter was ready and prepared to be governor and that Beaurprez wasn’t.   The 2006 election reflected this readiness. What we didn’t know at the time was that apparently Ritter had made his “deal with the devil” with the SEIU and other labor unions that culminated in a late-night executive order unionizing Colorado State workers shortly after his election.  

McInnis has promised to reverse that.  He appears ready to lead and is prepared to be a strong governor.  He promises to fix many of the problems we face in our state and his promise appears real.  

Who are you going to trust with your life, liberty and property, a bartender or a cop?

Mike Robinson is Sr. Partner at Robinson & Henry P.C., a Castle Rock Law Firm.

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14 thoughts on “Scott McInnis is on the beat

  1. So, you don’t consider the fact that the Marcellus Shale play is estimated at 400-600 tcf has nothing to do with industry relocating to PA; don’t mention that nat gas production is increasing, again, in CO or that infrastructure ‘improvements’ have continued over the past year, even as drilling dropped across the West?  

      1. we bury a few hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas in large continuous shale beds in Colorado?

        That’s what we’ll have to do to “mimic PA.”

        After all, it’s in areas with these sorts of shale gas plays (PA, LA, parts of TX) where activity is at or above 2008 levels.

        Meanwhile,

        OK is still down by over 100 rigs,

        TX is still down by over 400 rigs,

        WY is still down by over 40 rigs,

        NM is still down by over 40 rigs,

        UT is still down by over 25 rigs,

        Canada is still down by over 90 rigs.

        PA has gained 40, KS has gained 1 and LA has gained 0 net rigs since their peaks in 2008. Somehow, it doesn’t add up that CO’s loss of 70 rigs BEFORE any new rules were effective has any relationship with “mimicking” anything that the PA governor may or may not do.

        But, ignore all those facts and keep to the talking points. It makes you look really good and intelligent. Really.  

        1. Seriously, I was trying to point out that PA regulation and severance tax is not the reason they have increased production.

          Just didn’t do a good job.

          1. It wasn’t until after I posted and re-read your post that it hit me you might be snarking.

            Anyway, now that the Rocky Mtn Express pipeline is complete, we can run it backwards and ship all the PA gas back here to CO and refill all of our pore spaces. In 20 years Co gas fields will be the next best thing since microwave bacon.

  2. McInnis got us two national parks as a congressman and he always fought to shrink the size and scope of government as a simple point of principal.

    Sounds like he increased the size and scope of government by 2 parks…

    1. it should have been:

      McInnis got us two national parks as a congressman, where he served with corporate lobbyist Majority Whip Tom ‘Abramoff’s Hammar’ DeLay. Still, although he revolved right through the policymaker/lobbyist door himself–presumably to help bring government love and funds to his corporate clients–McInnis has always liked to talk about shrinking the size and scope of government as a simplistic, yet focus group tested, message point.

  3. I was charged with a misdemeanor when I was 19.  And I took it to a trial by judge by myself.  The judge blasted the cop for writing a ticket when there was no offense whatsoever and dismissed it with apologies from the court.  When your clients are innocent, you recommend they cop a plea just so you don’t have to do the work you are being paid to do?  No wonder you would support such a flimflam lobbyist like McInnis.

    “The U.S. economy will bottom in the next two years. It will need 15 to 17 years to recover fully, if past recessions and depressions can be used as guides.”  -Scott McInnis

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    “Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.”  -Scott McInnis

  4. I am trying to think if I have read a more absurd piece of tripe on this site.

    McInnis has promised to reverse that.  He appears ready to lead and is prepared to be a strong governor.  He promises to fix many of the problems we face in our state and his promise appears real.  

    Geez…I think I am going to puke.

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