http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/12955/breaking-mcinnis-water-articles-massively-plagiarizedA very bad story for GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is in the process of breaking at the state's newspaper of record, as well as at least one television station--all rolling out as we write.
Passages from McInnis' "Musings on Water" articles, for which he was reportedly paid some $300,000 by the Malik and Seeme Hasan Foundation, have been found to be both word-for-word lifted, as well as subject to easily identifiable token changes from an original article printed in 1984 by now-Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs in the periodical Colorado Water Rights. Here's a link to the original article from the CSU library, surprisingly easy to Google:
http://digitool.library.colost... Look at the article to see the comps. Denver Post all over it:
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15502025This is REALLY serious. McInnins could be out. Remember Ward Churchill? The repubs were all over him for - not the freedom of speech issue - but the plagiarism.