Colorado has really shaped up to be the most interesting of Republican primary states in the West this year, which is saying a lot when you consider it had to edge out Nevada. I mean, it's hard to beat Sue "Chicken Bartering" Lowden and Sharron "Sent from God" Angle. But Colorado Republicans have an inherent edge in having Tom Tancredo and Dick Wadhams.
The result is very bad news for Colorado Republicans in the gubernatorial race.
With allegations of plagiarism hovering over him, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis saw his campaign contributions plummet in the final two weeks of July, according to campaign reports filed Monday.
At the same time, his Democratic opponent John Hickenlooper's contributions rose to about $203,000 — about $50,000 more than he collected in the preceding two weeks and five times what McInnis raised....
McInnis took in $41,472 in the second half of the month, which was almost half of what he raised in the prior two weeks. However, his primary opponent, Dan Maes, did not appear to get a boost from McInnis' lackluster fundraising. The Evergreen businessman collected $20,338.
Perhaps in a bid to boost his fundraising, Maes pulled out an old John Bircher trick, warning of a sinsister UN plot supported by the Dem in the race, John Hickenlooper.
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes knows you might think bicycles and bicycle riding are harmless, but beware: "That's exactly the attitude they want you to have."
The Denver Post reports that Maes, a Tea Party friendly candidate facing former Rep. Scott McInnis in the August 10 Republican primary, has come out against a public bicycle program run by the city of Denver. Denver's mayor, John Hickenlooper, is the presumptive Democratic nominee, and a cycling supporter.
"This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed," Maes said at a small campaign rally last week, according to the Post. "These aren't just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to."
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"At first, I thought, 'Gosh, public transportation, what's wrong with that, and what's wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? And what's wrong with incentives for green cars?' But if you do your homework and research, you realize ICLEI is part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty," he said.
Ah, beware the all-powerful United Nations and their secret plots to make us all ride bicycles, drink fluoridated water, and surrender our guns.
