(It would be funny if it weren't true. No, this is still funny. - promoted by johne)
I've just learned that former Congressman Scott "McLobbyist" McInnis doesn't know Colorado geography, and we're reaching out to our network members to help him.
Last week, McInnis rolled out his new campaign website, "McInnis for Colorado." The headline on the site asks "what do you want for the future of Colorado," with the text displayed on a lovely backdrop of mountains and an alpine lake.
Unfortunately, within a few hours of launch, it was determined by local bloggers that the picturesque mountain peak in McInnis' "future of Colorado" photo is actually a mountain in Canada. (Colorado Independent, 7/2/2009).
That's right, folks, Scott McInnis apparently doesn't know the difference between Canada and Colorado. Now, some of you might be inclined to burst out in hysterical laughter at this news, but as a geography minor at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, this actually makes me very sad. Nobody, certainly not a college-educated former elected official, should be this clueless about the state they desire to serve. And like a good student, I immediately thought of a way to help.
Can you take just a minute right now to donate $10 towards a Colorado geography textbook for Scott McInnis?
Your donation will help pay for a hardbound copy of Geography of Colorado, an excellent college-level primer on our state's fascinating physical and cultural features--as well as help fund other ways we plan to educate Scott McInnis in the coming months.
I admit I was surprised to learn that McInnis needs such a basic textbook on a state he's lived in for so long, especially after all the snarky things he said about GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer's confusion of Alaska's Denali for Pikes Peak in a television ad last May (Grand Junction Sentinel, 5/18/2008). But all I, like any good student, want to do is help: every Coloradan entitled to a good education, after all. Thanks for doing your part.
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