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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Scot McInnis</b> is a former five-term Republican Congressman from Colorado who is a 2010 candidate for governor of Colorado.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> While in the Colorado state House of Representatives from From 1983 to 1993, McInnis was elected House Majority Leader and also was Chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993-2005. He is currently a partner in the Denver law firm Hogan Lovells.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></font></font></font></h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#Plagiarism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Plagiarism</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#Sourcewatch_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Sourcewatch resources</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Plagiarism"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Plagiarism</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2005, McInnis accepted what was supposed to be a two-year speaking, writing and educational fellowship at a nonprofit philanthropic foundation in Pueblo, Colorado called the Hasan Family Foundation, that is concerned with water issues in Colorado. McInnis agreed to write a series of essays on water issues for the Foundation. Shortly after accepting the fellowship, McInnis accepted a full-time job with the<b> Washington, D.C.-based law firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hogan%26_Hartson" title="Hogan & Hartson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hogan & Hartson</a>, which was renamed Hogan Lovells early in 2010 this year after it merged with a large British law firm.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July 2010, when McInnis was a Republican candidate for governor of Colorado, the Denver Post and a television station reported that parts of the essays McInnis wrote for the foundation appeared very similar to a 1984 article written for a publication of the Colorado Water Congress called <i>Colorado Water Rights,</i> which were authored by Gregory Hobbs, then a lawyer with the Denver firm Davis, Graham & Stubbs, who went on to become a Colorado Supreme Court Justice. Hobbs confirmed the similarity between the two works for the Denver Post, commenting before he knew who wrote the similar works. Hobbs commented that he would have expected an attribution in the similar work, but there was none.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <i>Denver Post</i> subsequently reported a second instance of suspected plagiarism by McInnis, pointing out strong similarities between an opinion article in the <i>Washington Post</i> and a newspaper column McInnis wrote, as well as a speech McInnis delivered while he was in Congress.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McInnis admitted to the plagiarism, but blamed it on a research assistant, Rollie Fischer, who denied the allegations, saying “Scott’s responsible for it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Hasan Foundation, which compensated McInnis with $300,000 for the fellowship, requested McInnis pay the money back. McInnis agreed to pay it back. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sourcewatch_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sourcewatch resources</font></span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Journalism" title="Journalism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Journalism</a> (What's behind plagiarism?)</font></li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External resources</font></span></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Benen <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_07/024714.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Plaigiarism problem intensifies for McInnis</a>, <i>The Washington Monthly</i>, July 14, 2010</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kristen Wyatt <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cbs4denver.com/campaign2010/McInnis.plagiarism.governor.2.1802195.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Scott McInnis Apologizes For Plagiarism</a>, CBS4Denver.com, July 13, 2010</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Hogan Lovells
Phone: (303) 454-2478
Email: scott.mcinnis AT hoganlovells.com (replace the word "AT" with @)
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clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hogal Lovells <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoganlovells.com/ourpeople/List.aspx?FirstName=Scott&LastName=McInnis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Our People</a> Corporate Web site, "Our People", Scott McInnis, partner</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000477" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Scott McInnis</a>, accessed July 20, 2010</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ernest Luning [<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/991967-mcinnis-plagiarism-charges-called-%3Fdouble-disappointment%3F" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">http://www.coloradostatesman.com/content/991967-mcinnis-plagiarism-charges-called-%3Fdouble-disappointment%3F</a> McInnis plagiarism charges called ‘double disappointment’ GOP Guv candidate casts blame on 'research assistant'], The <i>Colorado Statesman</i>, July 16, 2010</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Patrick Malong <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_5e33b556-915e-11df-966c-001cc4c002e0.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">McInnis asked to return $300,000</a>, The <i>Pueblo Chieftan</i>, July 17, 2010</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles Ashby <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/three_mcinnis_staffers_resign/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Three McInnis staffers resign</a>, The Grand Junction <i>Daily Sentinel</i>, July 17, 2010</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_McInnis#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; 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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Stephen Scott Emory McInnis</b><sup id="cite_ref-CSC01_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-CSC01-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> (born May 9, 1953) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American</a> politician and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lawyer</a> who was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a> member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado</a> from 1993 to 2005. In August 2010, McInnis lost his bid to be<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gubernatorial" class="mw-redirect" title="Gubernatorial" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">gubernatorial</a> nominee after a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism" title="Plagiarism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">plagiarism</a> accusation and apology hurt his standing. In November 2014, McInnis was elected a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_County,Colorado" title="Mesa County, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mesa County</a> Board of County Commissioners—beginning term in office in January 2015.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McInnis_Canyons_National_Conservation_Area" title="McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area</a>, west of Grand Junction, is named for him.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Education and professional history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#Political_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#Colorado_House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Colorado House of Representatives</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#U.S.Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. Congress</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#Campaign_Scrutiny" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Campaign Scrutiny</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#2010_gubernatorial_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010 gubernatorial election</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#Plagiarism_story" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Plagiarism story</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education_and_professional_history">Education and professional history</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_McInnis&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education and professional history" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenwood_Springs,Colorado" title="Glenwood Springs, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Glenwood Springs</a>, Colorado, McInnis graduated from Glenwood Springs High School and attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_State_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesa State College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mesa State College</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Junction,Colorado" title="Grand Junction, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grand Junction</a>, Colorado. He earned a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">B.A.</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lewis_College" title="Fort Lewis College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fort Lewis College</a> in 1975 and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">J.D.</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Mary%27s_University,Texas" title="St. Mary's University, Texas" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">St. Mary's University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio, Texas" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Antonio</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Texas</a>, in 1980. He served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer" title="Police officer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">police officer</a> in Glenwood Springs, worked as a hospital director, and started a law practice in Colorado.<sup id="cite_ref-congress_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-congress-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>McInnis is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) </b>and is an honorary adviser for the National Student Leadership Conference.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He is currently a partner<sup id="cite_ref-HL01_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-HL01-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup> at the law firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan_Lovells" title="Hogan Lovells" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hogan Lovells</a> US LLP.<sup id="cite_ref-CSC01_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-CSC01-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">state house of representatives</a>, where he was elected House Majority Leader and served as Chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-hhlaw_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-hhlaw-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.Congress">U.S. Congress</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_McInnis&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1992, McInnis was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Colorado's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado's 3rd district</a> and served six terms, from January 1993 to January 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-congress_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-congress-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup>Following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy" title="Chandra Levy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chandra Levy</a> investigation, McInnis "proposed that the House of Representatives adopt strict rules prohibiting members from having romantic or sexual relationships with interns they supervise."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup> While in Congress, McInnis held a position on the powerful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Ways_and_Means" class="mw-redirect" title="Committee on Ways and Means" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee on Ways and Means</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hhlaw_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-hhlaw-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Along with former Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nighthorse_Campbell" title="Ben Nighthorse Campbell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ben Nighthorse Campbell</a>, McInnis sponsored legislation to redesignate Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument as a national park in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a></sup> In 2000, McInnis and former Senators <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nighthorse_Campbell" title="Ben Nighthorse Campbell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ben Nighthorse Campbell</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allard" title="Wayne Allard" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wayne Allard</a> authored the Great Sand Dunes National Park Act, and four years later the Great Sand Dunes became the country's 58th national park</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While in office, McInnis received numerous awards. He was named "Person of the Decade" by <i>The Glenwood Post</i> in 1999 and "Best Local Government Official" by <i>The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel</i> from 1999–2003. Other awards Scott has received include the Colorado Association of Homebuilders' Award for Government Service, the Legislator of the Year Award from the Colorado Wildlife Federation, the Golden Bulldog Award from Watchdogs of the Treasury, the National Security Leadership Award from the American Security Council, the Sound Dollar Award from the Free Congress Foundation, the Spirit of Free Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Hero of the Taxpayer Award from The Americans for Tax Reform, the Taxfighter Award from the National Tax Limitation Committee and the Friend of Farm Bureau award from the American Farm Bureau Federation.<sup id="cite_ref-HL01_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-HL01-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McInnis once employed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Penry" title="Josh Penry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Josh Penry</a>, who is now a former Colorado state senator, and McInnis has been described as Penry's political "mentor."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Campaign_Scrutiny">Campaign Scrutiny</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_McInnis&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Campaign Scrutiny" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McInnis's Congressional campaign committee came under scrutiny in 2005 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission" title="Federal Election Commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Federal Election Commission</a> after Democrats filed a complaint alleging that the campaign improperly issued payments to McInnis's wife for her work as campaign manager in 2004 when Scott McInnis was not actively seeking office.<sup id="cite_ref-udall_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-udall-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a></sup> McInnis's campaign explained that Lori McInnis was employed by the campaign committee to maintain campaign archives, direct money to other campaigns, and act as liaison with the accounting firm retained by the campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> McInnis's chief of staff stated that it was "naive to assume that simply because Congressman McInnis is not seeking re-election that we aren't participating in the election."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a></sup> The FEC ultimately dismissed the complaint and found no evidence of wrongdoing by the McInnis campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After being regarded as the early Republican frontrunner in Colorado's 2008 U.S. Senate election, McInnis decided not to enter the race, citing family reasons.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2010_gubernatorial_election">2010 gubernatorial election</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_McInnis&action=edit§ion=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2010 gubernatorial election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_gubernatorial_election,2010" title="Colorado gubernatorial election, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado gubernatorial election, 2010</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Plagiarism_story" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;">
Plagiarism story</span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McInnis had been mentioned as a possible candidate for either the United States Senate or the Colorado governorship in 2010. Although he stated that he was not planning to seek the Senate seat, he did indicate some interest in challenging incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ritter" title="Bill Ritter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Ritter</a> for Colorado's top executive office.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[14]</a></sup> Ritter later announced his retirement.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> On May 21, 2009, McInnis officially announced his candidacy for Governor.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Though he did not gain the nomination at the party convention, he was widely considered the front runner for the Republican nomination until accusations of plagiarism gained attention. In the August 10 primary he lost the nomination by slightly more than 1 percent of the ballots cast to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur" class="mw-redirect" title="Entrepreneur" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">entrepreneur</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Maes" title="Dan Maes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dan Maes</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2005, after leaving Congress, McInnis received a two-year fellowship at the Hasan Family Foundation. He was paid $300,000 to do speaking engagements and "research and write a monthly article on water issues that can be distributed to media and organizations as well as be available on the Internet." Soon after he started his fellowship, McInnis took a full-time job at the firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells).<sup id="cite_ref-20-year-old_essay_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-20-year-old_essay-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2010, McInnis's work for the Hasan foundation, a total of 150 pages in 23 parts, was posted to the foundation's website. Teresa Fishman, director of the Center for Academic Integrity at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemson_University" title="Clemson University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Clemson University</a>, reviewed McInnis's work and called several of the parts a clear case of plagiarism. "Both ... ideas and words [were] lifted" from a 20-year-old essay by now-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Supreme_Court" title="Colorado Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Colorado Supreme Court</a> Justice Gregory J. Hobbs. A McInnis spokesperson said that McInnis "relied on the research and expertise" of Rolly Fischer, a Glenwood Springs engineer who worked at the Colorado River Water Conservation District, and Fischer was the one who handled the parts that were accused of being plagiarism.<sup id="cite_ref-20-year-old_essay_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-20-year-old_essay-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a></sup> "His <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">GOP</a> primary challenger, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Maes" title="Dan Maes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dan Maes</a>, says McInnis should 'man up' about the plagiarism" and "faulted McInnis for blaming a research assistant." Fischer himself rebutted any effort to blame him: 'Scott's responsible for it,' he told the Glenwood Springs <i>Post Independent</i> and would not comment further.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[17]</a></sup> In a televised interview with KMGH-TV investigative reporter John Ferrugia, McInnis was asked several times who actually wrote the articles and he would not give a definitive answer. McInnis continued to evade the question until finally, in a written apology statement, McInnis said "I should have been more vigilant in my review of research material Rolly submitted."<sup id="cite_ref-SM01_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-SM01-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a></sup> The 82-year-old Fischer subsequently told KMGH-TV investigative reporter John Ferrugia he had not known the articles were to be published; had not known McInnis had a foundation grant; had been paid a few hundred dollars for each article; had considered them private communications; and had been asked by the McInnis campaign as the story broke in July 2010 to sign a letter apologizing for his, Fischer's, failure to provide attribution. Fischer said he would never sign the letter, and felt that McInnis had lied to him.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An aide said McInnis had offered an apology to the judge and said McInnis hoped to meet with the judge, and in his statement McInnis apologized to voters for his "mistake.... It's unacceptable, it's inexcusable, but it was also unintentional."<sup id="cite_ref-SM01_18-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-SM01-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AP01_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-AP01-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Hasan foundation chairwoman Seeme Hasan issued an initial statement saying in part, "We will conduct an independent, internal investigation and if the allegations are proven to be true, we will demand Mr. McInnis return all monies paid to him by the Foundation." Hasan's husband Dr. Malik Hasan, a foundation board member, said he had hired McInnis as a fellow. Speaking only for himself, he said he was "deeply disappointed by the quantity and quality of McInnis's work, [having among other things] ... expected it would be a full- or substantial-time job. ... I am doubly disappointed since learning of the plagiarism. ... I'm going to suggest [he] return a substantial amount of the money to the foundation."<sup id="cite_ref-20-year-old_essay_16-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-20-year-old_essay-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a></sup> McInnis's spokesperson said McInnis "was also calling to offer apologies" to the Hasan foundation. This report characterized the foundation as "right-leaning."<sup id="cite_ref-AP01_20-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-AP01-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also in the 2010 election cycle, Dr. and Mrs. Hasan's son Ali failed to receive the nomination for the position of state treasurer, and did not receive endorsement from McInnis in his bid. Dr. Hasan said that "while he and his wife were upset that McInnis refused to endorse their son ..., it had nothing to do with asking McInnis for the foundation's money back."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Jan. 6, 2011, Hogan Lovells confirmed that McInnis would not return to its Denver office.</b><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><b>[</b>22]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of May 20, 2011, McInnis has been cleared of any official ethics violations as an attorney by the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel (OARC).<sup id="cite_ref-LW01_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-LW01-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup> Upon review of the evidence and interviews with key witnesses, the Attorney Regulation Counsel determined there was insufficient evidence to support a claim of a violation of the disciplinary rules.<sup id="cite_ref-JSG01_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-JSG01-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a></sup> Additionally, "Regulation Counsel John S. Gleason says the <i>Denver Post</i> reported erroneous facts. 'While both Fisher [<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic" title="Sic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">sic</a></i>]<sup id="cite_ref-DP01_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-DP01-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[25]</a></sup> and [Hasan Family Foundation Chairwoman Seeme] Hasan provided contradictory accounts to the press at the time this issue was raised by the <i>Denver Post</i>, a more thorough review of their archived materials demonstrates that both had forgotten several specific communications with McInnis that had occurred several years before,' states Gleason."<sup id="cite_ref-LW01_23-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-LW01-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Various correspondences between Rollie Fischer and McInnis demonstrate that in 2005, McInnis instructed Fischer not to plagiarize any work in the articles he drafted because they would likely be published by the Hasan Family Foundation. Moreover, Fischer continues to claim that his use of Justice Hobbs’ article did not constitute plagiarism, because the article was part of the "public domain". Fischer also admits that he did not disclose to McInnis that he had imported the work of Justice Hobbs.<sup id="cite_ref-JSG01_24-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-JSG01-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a></sup> "'Mr. Fischer alone chose to import large sections of text previously written by the Honorable Justice Gregory Hobbs into one of the articles drafted for Mr. McInnis, without credit citation,' states the results of the investigation."<sup id="cite_ref-LW01_23-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-LW01-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, as it turns out, in 2005, McInnis did disclose his retention of a research assistant to Ms. Hasan in writing, contrary to the Foundation's representation in its press release in 2010. Ms. Hasan was responsible for the daily care of her ill mother at the time of the correspondence, and claims she had simply forgotten by 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-JSG01_24-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-JSG01-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"McInnis and the Hasan Foundation last summer reached a settlement agreement to repay the organization, though McInnis maintained that his only error was trusting Fischer."<sup id="cite_ref-LW01_23-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-LW01-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jennifer Raiffie, who served as Tom Tancredo's communications director when he entered last year's gubernatorial race as a third-party conservative candidate, ... believes McInnis has now been publicly exonerated. ... <b>Tancredo</b> entered the race [after the plagiarism allegations were made against McInnis] because he felt conservatives had lost a viable candidate."<sup id="cite_ref-LW01_23-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-LW01-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup> Raiffie suggested that the <i>Post</i> should now subject to an ethics investigation. "I’m happy for Scott and his family that his name can now be cleared," Raiffie said. "The <i>Denver Post</i> did a job on him with this story during the campaign. Their unfair and incomplete/biased reporting cost him personally and professionally. The <i>Denver Post</i> did a disservice to us all in Colorado and should be investigated by Ethics Watch … like that will ever happen." <sup id="cite_ref-LW01_23-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-LW01-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporting on the OARC ruling, the <i>Post</i> detailed how comments from the various parties in 2005, summer 2010 and in depositions with OARC as summarized by OARC varied. Fischer acknowledged his OARC deposition but declined further comment. Hasan and foundation officials questioned some of the OARC assertions and stood by their 2010 comments but also was "ready for the issue to be put to rest. Ethics Watch released a statement saying it considers the matter closed." OARC said it could not release the evidence on which it based its ruling under Colorado Supreme Court rules. McInnis did not return a phone message from the paper seeking comment.<sup id="cite_ref-DP01_25-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McInnis#cite_note-DP01-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Just before leaving Congress in 2004, Scott Mc Innis’ staff said the exiting Republican wanted to use part of the $1.3 million left in his campaign fund to launch a nonprofit political organization that would address education, breast-cancer research and conservation.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Five years later, no such organization exists.</b> Instead, the largest charitable donation McInnis made from his campaign funds was to a wilderness area named for McInnis as he was leaving Congress…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most of the money that has been spent from McInnis’ congressional campaign fund went not to charity but to like-minded candidates and to promote Republican ideals, which McInnis said was always his intent. [Pols emphasis] He decided direct giving would be more efficient than the bureaucracy of a nonprofit, he said…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McInnis instead created the Western Way Political Action Committee and estimates he’s given more than $250,000 through that fund to about 40 candidates over the years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About $96,000 has been given to charities through Western Way. But despite his staff’s singling out of breast cancer as a focus, health groups received relatively little of the money in the past five years. The total was compiled from Federal Elections Commission disclosures.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McInnis gave $51,500 from the PAC to McInnis Canyons, the Grand Junction-area wilderness named for him…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the stories began to circulate last week about Scott McInnis’ heavy use of Western Way PAC in the last few months, clearly as a vehicle to build name recognition in advance of his gubernatorial campaign, one of many questions being asked was “what about the charity?” Liberals had attacked McInnis back in 2007 over the same issue, after all, but nobody paid much attention to his leftover money in the 2008 cycle since it went basically unused after McInnis aborted his Senate run early on (unless you lived in Garfield County, apparently).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now that the facts of the matter are out, there’s really nothing about this situation that makes McInnis look in any way good. The simple fact is, he told the press in no uncertain terms in 2004 that he would give this money to charity and he didn’t. Any personal relationship he may have had to the cause he said he would give the money to is irrelevant, or if anything worse for him now that he’s reneged on his pledge. Bottom line: he used the money he said he would spend on a health care charity to fund Republican candidates, $50,000 for Ego-ponymous Canyons, and a good amount in the last few months to operate his much-criticized “shadow campaign.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And let’s not forget the $5,000 to <b>Tom DeLay’s legal defense fund.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seriously, folks–anybody want to tell us how the optics on this are not absolutely disastrous? How does this not paint a picture of exactly the kind of dishonest, irresponsible “Tom DeLay Republican” opponent Josh Penry rails against in his stump speeches?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/10052/longsimmering-campaign-funds-scandal-explodes-on-mcinnis#sthash.9BZMJEtJ.dpuf</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At a March 7, 2002 conference on "Eco Extremism" co-sponsored by Nichols</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dezenhall and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (a "free market" think tank)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nichols delivered a thinly-veiled marketing pitch for his firm, in an assembly</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">room overlooking the U.S. Capitol grounds. Among the well-heeled, attentive</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">audience members were journalists, think tankers and executives from the paper,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">forestry and plastics industries.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Incidentally, while the conference was open to the public, Barry and other</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">environmentalists were refused admission.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nonetheless, <b>adding gravitas to the event was Representative Scott McInnis</b>,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">R-Colo., who discussed his legitimate crusade, as chairman of the House</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, against actual</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">eco-terrorists, from groups like the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Liberation Front</span>. But McInnis was careful to delineate between extremists who</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">break the law and legitimate environmentalists, who represent "sometimes very</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">sound messages."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"At least three-fourths of the environmental groups in the U.S. hold these</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[extremists] in distain," said McInnis, who compared the extremists to abortion</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">clinic bombers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Free Market Advocates Confront Eco-Terrorism</b> | Competitive ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://cei.org/news.../free-market-advocates-confront-eco-terrorism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mar 6, 2002 ... Groups such as the Earth Liberation Front, the Animal Liberation Front, and Earth First! have intimidated researchers and destroyed ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C., March 7, 2002 — In a Capitol Hill conference today, several experts in security, politics, and communications revealed the troubling rise in acts of violence and destruction being committed by environmental and animal rights activists. The event, “Stopping Eco-Extremism: A Conference on Legislative, Legal, and Communications Strategies to Protect Free Enterprise, Private Property, and American Business,” was sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the crisis communications firm Nichols–Dezenhall.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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