February 17, 2010 02:45 AM UTC

"McLobbyist Happy Meals" Slam McInnis Hypocrisy

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• by: Alan

(Don’t confuse the Coke and the pesticide – promoted by Colorado Pols)

That’s the word from the Denver Post’s Tim Hoover:

Liberal group delivers treat bags slamming McInnis over opposition to tax bills

There’s a bite-sized “100 Grand” bar, a “Sugar Daddy,” a can of cola and a bottle of pesticide. It’s all inside a McDonald’s “Happy Meal” bag.

The goody bags were delivered to the Capitol today by liberal group, “ProgressNow” Colorado in response to a series of appearances GOP candidate for governor Scott McInnis is making across the state to protest Democratic-backed proposals to eliminate tax exemptions and credits for a variety of industries and products.

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“Scott McInnis has failed repeatedly to identify his own plan to balance the state budget,” ProgressNow Executive Director Bobby Clark said. “Instead, McInnis has shown why he earned the name ‘McLobbyist’ – the only position he ever seems to have is the one that corporate special interests tell him to have.

“Working families, senior citizens and students around the state are making sacrifices to protect the vital public services we all depend on, and suspending a small percentage of the tax breaks for business that cost Colorado billions of dollars every year is not too much to ask for.”

Sean Duffy, a spokesman for McInnis, said ProgressNow is wrong to claim it represents working families.

“With continued stunts that ignore the facts and make light of hundreds of families every day coming home to find out that a breadwinner has lost his or her job, they’re only deepening their own irrelevance,” Duffy said. “Scott McInnis is the only candidate for governor who is out talking to the workers and small business owners who are going to be hit hard by these tax increases.”

So where would McInnis cut? Duffy said the former congressman believes the state should look at efficiencies like merging departments.

Which ones?

“We don’t know. We’re looking at it,” Duffy said…