The Fort Collins Coloradoan’s Bob Moore reported Saturday:
State Rep. Cory Gardner of Yuma triumphed in an early test for the 2010 Republican congressional nomination, winning a straw poll at a shrimp boil fundraiser for the Larimer County Republican Party.
GOP organizers said 340 people attended the Friday event on the shores of Warren Lake in Fort Collins. Straw poll results showed Gardner getting 44 percent, former Fort Collins City Councilman Diggs Brown 34 percent and University of Colorado Regent Tom Lucero 21 percent…
Organizers also conducted a straw poll for the Senate and governor races. In the Senate straw poll, Weld County DA Ken Buck had 49 percent, Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier 47 percent and Denver businessman Cleve Tidwell 4 percent. I would imagine Frazier is happy with his performance, given that Buck is pretty much a known quantity to the Larimer GOP coming from a neighboring county.
For the governor’s seat, fromer Rep. Scott McInnis took 39 percent, state Rep. Josh Penry 36 percent, businessman Dan Maes 24 percent.
We’d say Ken Buck’s performance is heavily overstated by the location, and Scott McInnis’ strong showing is a function of pure name ID–possibly absent widespread knowledge of the “inside baseball” scandals that have shaken his credibility in recent months.
And no, we don’t consider these straw polls useful for anything other than for-entertainment-only speculation–but they are snapshots of a given place at a given time, and it’s the best you’re going to get until folks get back from vacation season.
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McInnis needs all the love he can get right now. Let him believe in this poll like gospel.
Somehow I wound up on Scott McInnis’ e-mail contact list. Last Friday I got a strange, rambling e-mail from him about beaver dams in Pennsylvania. First of all, his story was totally irrelevant. Second, two minutes of googling revealed that his “story” is a common urban legend that somewhat resembles an actual incident that occured in Michigan.
Bottom line…McInnis must be running for story teller in chief. I suppose when you know nothing about Colorado issues all you can really do is resort to telling stories.
The guys is crazy, mark my words.
I’d like to see that email.
It was beyond bizarre. The first substantive thing Colorado voters have heard from Scott McInnis in over 5 years relates to some permitting dispute that may or may not have taken place hundreds of miles away from Colorado.
If he’s running for president of the camp fire tales league, he’s got my vote. As for Colorado Governor? Not so much.
that’s hilarious.
From the desk of Scott McInnis
June 12, 2009
Good afternoon,
It’s too often the case that state bureaucracies act with no common sense; the result leaving people like you and I trying to make sense of their failed logic. This was the case for a Pennsylvania man when he received a letter from the Department of Environmental Quality. Enjoy the following read… I hope you get a laugh!
Have a great day,
Scott
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The Dam Incident
* Letter from Mr. David Price to Mr. Ryan DeVries:
Dear Mr. DeVries,
It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:
Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond.
A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity. A review of the Department’s files shows that no permits have been issued. Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.
The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the stream channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 2009.
Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff. Failure to comply with this request or any further unauthorized activity on the site may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action. We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter. Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
David L. Price
District Representative and Water Management Division
* Response from Mr. Ryan DeVries to Mr. David Price:
Dear Mr. Price,
Your certified letter dated 12/17/07 has been handed to me to respond to. I am the legal landowner but not the Contractor at 2088 Dagget Lane, Trout Run, Pennsylvania.
A couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood ‘debris’ dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natures building materials ‘debris.’
I would like to challenge your department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.
These are the beavers/contractors you are seeking. As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity.
My first dam question to you is:
(1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers, or
(2) Do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request?
If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, through the Freedom of Information Act, I request completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits that have been issued. (Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated).
I have several concerns. My first concern is, aren’t the beavers entitled to legal representation? The Spring Pond Beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said representation — so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer. The Department’s dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event, causing flooding, is proof that this is a natural occurrence, which the Department is required to protect. In other words, we should leave the Spring Pond Beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling them dam names.
If you want the stream ‘restored’ to a dam free-flow condition please contact the beavers — but if you are going to arrest them, they obviously did not pay any attention to your dam letter, they being unable to read English.
In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond Beavers have a right to build their unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream. They have more dam rights than I do to live and enjoy Spring Pond. If the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection lives up to its name, it should protect the natural resources (Beavers) and the environment (Beavers’ Dams).
So, as far as the beavers and I are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more elevated enforcement action right now. Why wait until 1/31/2009? The Spring Pond Beavers may be under the dam ice then and there will be no way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them.
In conclusion, I would like to bring to your attention to a real environmental quality, health, problem in the area. It is the bears! Bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the beavers alone. If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your step! The bears are not careful where they dump!
Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office.
THANK YOU,
RYAN DEVRIES
& THE DAM BEAVERS
This email has been around about as long as the Internet, and actually comes out of Michigan. Not sure why a candidate for governor is FWD’ing chain emails from the 1990’s, but at least this one isn’t of the Jim Welker variety.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/le…
Which makes it better than 99% of the political emails out there.
Does that explain DickWads absence from the news? Oh, and maybe someone should tell Mr. Moore that Penry is a State Sin, not “Rep”.
“Frankly, I have never heard of Dick Wadhams and I may never hear from him again since he obviously is delusional” –Pollster, John Zogby
And yet he’s so young!
Zogby has no credibility:
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo…
Do you mean like the lies Ram2010 spewed?