Researcher blamed for plagiarism says McInnis 'responsible for it'

[HighPopalorum]

I'll repeat. This guy is a walking corpse. Sooner or later he will drop out. I bet sooner.

[cologrower420]

I'll repeat. This guy is a walking corpse. Sooner or later he will drop out. I bet sooner.

I agree that he probably won't survive this. With the mcinnis camp sending the prepared letter to the researcher calling bullshit, the whole thing just reeks.

[denverbear]

I was listening to the radio yesterday afternoon and the local talk show had the auther of the plagerism on and he said he gave the info to the campain to use...he said it was not plagerism...from the horses mouth.
still do not want to see him run but this reason is a no reason.

[cologrower420]

I was listening to the radio yesterday afternoon and the local talk show had the auther of the plagerism on and he said he gave the info to the campain to use...he said it was not plagerism...from the horses mouth.
still do not want to see him run but this reason is a no reason.

Read the article in the denver post or westword and come back. You really should get your info from somewhere other than koa or the radio.

In part:
Cut to this morning's McInnis salvo, "McInnis Lying, Says Engineer." The article leads with an amazing interview between researcher Fischer, who's in his early eighties, and Channel 7's John Ferrugia. In it, Fischer says he thought he was doing research McInnis might draw from in a 2008 Senate run. According to him, he never knew the material would be published. Moreover, he says the McInnis camp tried to get him to sign a letter taking responsibility for accidentally committing plagiarism. The letter reads:

Dear Scott:

I am writing to express my sincere apology for failing to provide appropriate attribution for the research I provided for the water articles we collaborated on. While my mistake was not intentional, it is nonetheless clear that this material needed footnotes.

This mistake was solely my own and I recognize that my work fell short of the expectations you had when you included me in this project.

Again, please accept my deep apology.

Sincerely,

Rolly Fischer

It's shocking stuff that makes McInnis look even worse than he already did -- as does the visual image of Fischer tottering around on a cane as he tries to figure out how he wound up under a bus. But after this info, the Post article delved into a debate over the Plunk matter with this clunky, out-of-the-blue transitional paragraph:

[denverbear]

Read the article in the denver post or westword and come back. You really should get your info from somewhere other than koa or the radio.

In part:
Cut to this morning's McInnis salvo, "McInnis Lying, Says Engineer." The article leads with an amazing interview between researcher Fischer, who's in his early eighties, and Channel 7's John Ferrugia. In it, Fischer says he thought he was doing research McInnis might draw from in a 2008 Senate run. According to him, he never knew the material would be published. Moreover, he says the McInnis camp tried to get him to sign a letter taking responsibility for accidentally committing plagiarism. The letter reads:

Dear Scott:

I am writing to express my sincere apology for failing to provide appropriate attribution for the research I provided for the water articles we collaborated on. While my mistake was not intentional, it is nonetheless clear that this material needed footnotes.

This mistake was solely my own and I recognize that my work fell short of the expectations you had when you included me in this project.

Again, please accept my deep apology.

Sincerely,

Rolly Fischer

It's shocking stuff that makes McInnis look even worse than he already did -- as does the visual image of Fischer tottering around on a cane as he tries to figure out how he wound up under a bus. But after this info, the Post article delved into a debate over the Plunk matter with this clunky, out-of-the-blue transitional paragraph:

I know what you are saying buttttt if the author of the artical from years ago gave it to the campain like he stated on the Caplis and Silverstien show and the auther had no problem then where does all this mumbo jumbo come from...just keeping an open mind here.

[cologrower420]

I know what you are saying buttttt if the author of the artical from years ago gave it to the campain like he stated on the Caplis and Silverstien show and the auther had no problem then where does all this mumbo jumbo come from...just keeping an open mind here.

I'll even link the article I'm trying to discuss.

Scott McInnis, Rolly Fischer and the more dubious part of the Denver Post scoop - Denver News - The Latest Word

Read that, and tell me if your opinion changes.

[denverbear]

I'll even link the article I'm trying to discuss.

Scott McInnis, Rolly Fischer and the more dubious part of the Denver Post scoop - Denver News - The Latest Word

Read that, and tell me if your opinion changes.

I do see where you are comming from and if Scott had acknowldged he was not the true author of some of those writtings then he would not be in the spot he is in now...on the flip side how can you take 300.000 dollars and not give some of it to the man who wrote the piece...typical congressman BS...

[copobo]

the Republicans are talking about running Tom Tancredo instead of McInnis or Maes!

Post poll: McInnis losing support, Republicans like Tancredo - The Denver Post

and Tancredo beats Hick in the legalization dept:

Tom Tancredo wants to turn marijuana into the toke of the town - Page 1 - News - Denver - Westword

[copobo]

Opposing Views: Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo Questions War on Drugs

Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, a conservative Republican who made cracking down on illegal immigration the main theme of his campaign for his party's 2008 presidential nomination, says it's time to think about calling off the war on drugs:

"I am convinced that what we are doing is not working," he said.

Tancredo told [the Lincoln Club of Colorado, a Republican group,] that the country has spent billions of dollars capturing, prosecuting and jailing drug dealers and users, but has little to show for it.

"It is now easier for a kid to get drugs at most schools in America that it is booze," he said.

He said the violent drug battles in Mexico are moving north.

Last year Tancredo and Ron Paul were the only Republican candidates to receive an A+ grade from Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana. During an August 2007 visit to Londonderry, New Hampshire, Tancredo said the federal government should stop interfering with state policies regarding the medical use of marijuana:

It's not about marijuana, it's about states' rights. The federal government has no right to interfere when a state makes that kind of decision...The federal government should stay the hell out of it.

That much ought to be a perfectly respectable federalist position even among conservatives who support drug prohibition. When the New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy examined the presidential candidates's broader drug policy views, Paul retained his A+, but Tancredo's grade sank to a C. "Although he does not advocate changing drug laws and says he voted against medical marijuana in the Colorado legislature," the group reported, "he insists that the federal government's role in drug enforcement is strictly limited by the Constitution." Taking that idea seriously, of course, would mean rejecting national drug prohibition, for which (unlike alcohol prohibition in 1920) there is no constitutional authority. Maybe that helps explain how Tancredo arrived at his current position, although his comments suggest that his second thoughts about the war on drugs stem mainly from its ineffectiveness and unpleasant side effects.

Addendum: On the same day that Tancredo, a conservative Republican who says he has never used an illegal intoxicant, questioned prohibition, the drug czar appointed by Barack Obama, a liberal Democrat whose autobiography describes his own extensive illegal drug use, declared "legalization isn't in the president's vocabulary."

[HighPopalorum]

I'd rather have McInnis than Tancredo. Or Maes. Tancredo would be a disaster for this state.