UPDATE: The focus of today’s Statesman story is the money raised by Rick Perry in Aspen last week, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge this fascinating quote from his speech:
“When it comes to economic growth, I know this,” Perry added. “The answer is not trickle down stimulus coming from Washington, D.C. but is truly up to freeing up those individuals unleashing corporate growth and the investment on Wall Street freeing them up from over taxation, over regulation and over litigation.”
“Freeing up…Wall Street?” Probably not coming to a bumper sticker near you.
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Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry banked $175,000 for his campaign in a fundraising trip to Aspen last Thursday. And as The Colorado Statesman reports, the money came with the help of two high-profile Colorado Republicans, Marc Holtzman and Scott McInnis:
Perry’s short side trip to the mountains that day netted the conservative candidate $175,000 for his campaign coffers – the most lucrative such event in the history of Republican politics in Pitkin County, according to a local and national source – and put him in front of a well-heeled Aspen crowd, many of who said afterwards that the prospect of a Perry presidency truly excited them. There were numerous pledges of support from the approximate 60 people there, including promises of additional financial backing in the future, and a general joy at having rubbed elbows with, as Holtzman proudly announced more than once that afternoon, the next president of the United States.
That’s a lot of money for Perry, but perhaps more significant is the commitment he has received from Holtzman. While his 2006 campaign for Governor fell apart when he — shockingly — failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the primary against Bob Beauprez, fundraising was one area in which the wealthy Holtzman had little trouble. Holtzman raised nearly $2 million despite basically ending his campaign in June, nearly two months before the Republican primary. If Holtzman is going to be bundling money for Perry, which we would assume to be the case, then we’d assume a fair number of Colorado Republicans are going to be getting phone calls very soon.
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Colorado has truly missed his leadership. If only we had elected him Governor and got that billion dollar tax cut he campaigned on, think about what a much better financial position our state would be in today.
If only.
Good times those, but it looks like he’s found his niche.
And would you LOOK at Perry, so – unafraid! – of being seen in public with shamed, shamed I say Scott McInnis. Amazingly, the Colorado Pols court of pajama wearing opinion is not the final arbiter of a man’s career. Why no snarky comments about this?
Secretary of the Interior McInnis, indeed!
If he’s looking for a job, you know? If plagiarism isn’t enough to end a career, maybe at least it reduced his fee per page.
But since McInnis was cleared of plagiarism, what you’re basically saying is nobody should hire an innocent man. Now why would you say a thing like that?
I’m sure your side will be eager to relitigate the matter. I’ll offer a draft slogan: “Scott McInnis–He has a really good excuse.”
How could he be guilty of plagiarism when his airtight defense was that he didn’t write, check or have anything to do with producing it accept for taking credit under his own name and all the pay. Guess you have to actually write something, at least touch touch a keyboard, in order to plagiarize. What McInnis did seems more along the lines of fraud, getting his friend to do all the work without cutting him in on any of the profit and then throwing him under the bus. But not plagiarism, by God!
Sorry, too late. They cleared him.
Don’t get too uptight, or I’ll have to bring up Marion Barry.
They said he didn’t do anything worthy of yanking his law license.
That’s a damned signt different than clearing him.
Sorry about our long drawn out disagreement.
Ralphie?
Apparently Holtzy threw a bash for Tipton with Boehner in attendance as well.
Noble, indeed.
But unless you’re talking about a Democrat bundler of max donations from immigrant laborers, political donations are voluntary.
illegal, job killing, terrorist, drug mule etc. etc.? Losing your focus?
I believe the 2008 Democrat bundler scandal involved legal immigrants. Too bad.
It dosen’t matter if you’re a complete douchebag like McPenis, if you’re writing Perry a check, you’re good ! Look for lots of principled stands like this from the GOP in the near future.
I read the whole story, mostly hoping to learn at least one of them was eaten by a bear during their time in Aspen.
Sadly, I was disappointed.
Honestly there was no bombshell in that quote…he’s a corporatist…he’s going to talk about how the big mean government is hurting companies’ ability to create jobs. So we are left with “national candidate holds fundraiser with the wealthy in richest town in Colorado.” Eh.
Freeing up Wall Street is exactly what we need. It ought to be a bumper sticker!
Did you miss virtually EVERY analysist who explained that Wall Street was TOO FREE to exercise their GREED insstincts, resulting in a complete VALUE BUBBLE and COLLAPSE when NO MORE MONEY could be stolen?
Free up Wall Street, Buddy. Greed is not a winner.
Let me repeat, GREED is not a winner.
We need to free up Wall Street like you need another clod in your noggin’ . . . wait?!?!
Even Ethics watched said:
http://www.denverpost.com/reco…
Now back to the original subject….
Let me know when tea-wingers like A-GOP accept that exoneration by SIX outside review panels means there is no evidence of misconduct.
At that point I will start to entertain the concept that McInnis’s submitting someone else’s work (whether Justice Hobbs’ or Roland Fischer’s) as his own is evidence of professional ethical behavior.
Oh really?
(No slam against you, Ellie, I’m really responding to ArapGOB. Everybody deserves a friend like you, even those of us with less than completely stellar backgrounds.)