Plagiarism charges dog Colorado gubernatorial candidate (R - Rick Perry endorsed)

[sinkingfeeling]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/14/plagiarism-chargers-dogs-colorado-gubernatorial-candidate/?fbid=Y09lShoamaG#more-112996

(CNN) – The leading Republican gubernatorial candidate in Colorado apologized Tuesday for lifting passages from the writings of a state Supreme Court justice without attribution and is now staving off calls to quit the race.

Republican candidate and prominent Colorado lawyer Scott McInnis privately apologized to Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs Tuesday for using several passages of Hobbs' work in producing a series of essays for which he was paid $300,000 to write, according to the Associated Press.

When the Denver Post first reported the instances of plagiarism earlier this week, McInnis, a former U.S. congressman and current partner of the international law firm Hogan Lovells, said the error was primarily the fault of his then-research assistant Rolly Fischer.

Meanwhile, the Hasan foundation is pledging to launch an investigation into the charge and possibly demand McInnis return the $300,000 he was paid.

But several state Democrats are calling on McInnis to quit the race, as is the Denver Post in an editorial Wednesday.

"The lifted work, examined in The Denver Post, constitutes inexcusable intellectual thievery. It is so damaging that we believe McInnis ought to drop out of the race," the Denver Post's editorial states. "Colorado's next governor should be a person of integrity, a trusted hand to lead the state through difficult times."

[DevonRex]

1. He should quit and return the $300,000. He has always been a nasty

jerk, even without this new information. This is excellent news for Colorado.

[livetohike]

2. A common problem in the GOP - they are devoid of

original thoughts. Hope this sinks him.

[DevonRex]

4. You have that right. I'll never forget listening to an economics professor

from the University of Denver on Channel 9 News. They wanted an expert opinion on the stimulus package. He called it economic child abuse. I sat there stunned, not believing that this supposed expert couldn't do better than using GOP talking points.

I had hoped to hear what a conservative expert had to say. Instead I got talking points that I could have heard from Pat Buchanan or any other talking head. :shrug:

[livetohike]

5. Most of the thinkers in the GOP died years ago and they are

lost and dependent on their sound bites. The dumbing down of America. It's really sad that politics has denigrated from healthy discussions on topics and policy to a he said/ she said gotcha atmosphere. Anyone wanting to debate issues is not taken seriously. They nominate clowns like Sarah Palin who can't even construct a basic sentence, let alone think.

[LWolf]

3. Awkwardly worded title, lol.

I spent about 30 seconds trying to figure out why the Colorado gubernatorial candidate was a dog, and what it could have plagiarized.

Then I realized "dog," in this case, was a verb.

:rofl:

I hope he drops out. I don't think Republican voters will care that he plagiarized something; only that he is a republican.

[Loudmxr]

6. He should do the right thing and cut Hobbs in for a percentage.

You know its like lifting a sample for some rap. OG Steele would be down with that. Fee plus royalty plus 10% for the agent. Everybody gets some. Everybody's happy. No problem.

[surrealAmerican]

7. He's blaming it on a "research assistant"?

That would only be credible if the "research assistant" did the actual writing, in which case the entire series of essays would be plagiarism ...
... or is that just "ghost writing"?

[damntexdem]

8. Plagiarism charges dog a GOP candidate?

Don't they constitute a sign of qualification to BE a GOP candidate?

;-)

[sinkingfeeling]

9. LOL!!