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Former Rep. Scott Mcinnis has joined the Hasan Family Foundation as a senior fellow, it was announced Wednesday. McInnis, a Colorado Republican, retired from the 3rd Congressional District and will work on natural resource issues for the Pueblo-based foundation, which was established by Dr. Malik and Seeme Hasan. \"When Rep. Mcinnis retired, we were concerned that Colorado would lose a strong voice on water and natural resource issues, so we asked him to serve as a senior fellow with the foundation,\" said Mrs. Hasan, who is chairwoman of the foundation. \"Because the foundation is committed to promoting education, we want Mr. McInnis to be available to any group wanting to hear his expertise on these issues.\" As a senior fellow, Mcinnis will make speaking appearances around the state as well as write about water and natural resource issues. Mcinnis said he was honored to be named to the two-year position of being a senior fellow. \"1 have great respect for the Hasan Family Foundation and its mission to educate the public on the importance of balanced natural resources utilization in Colorado and the West,\" he said. McInnis is the former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health and wrote the Healthy Forest Restoration Act which President Bush signed last year. He also played a leading role in the establishment of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. He currently is a partner in the law firm of Hogan and Hartson and serves on several corporate boards, including KSL Resorts and ING.
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Anyone interested in having McInnis speak to their organization can contact the Hasan Family Foundation at 1607 N. Elizabeth St., Pueblo, 81003 or send e-mail to [email protected] .
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DENVER - Calls for Republican Scott McInnis to abandon his run for governor coold come as early as Tuesday afternoon from Democrats in the wake of the (ilndidate's apparent plagiarism and fraud.
The Denver Post was the first to discover that essays submitted for publication by GOP Mcinnis appear to include passages that were plagiarized from another soun;e Without attribution. Mcfnnis received $300,000 from the Malik and Seeme Hasan Foundation to author a series of articles on water as part of a two-year fellowship from 2005-06.
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"I was thrilled to do it. I got paid to do it," ~1cInni5 told KHOW's
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Now, with the governor's race tumlng Into a dogfight, the deal has tumed sour tor McInnis as various news agencies have uncovered that McInnis's writings include word-tor-word passages lifted from an original article printed in 1984 by now Colorado Supreme Court Justice GI'egory Hobbs in the periodical Colorddo Water Rights. Compare Hobbs' article, linked here with McInnis's, linked here.
The Denver Post's Karen Crummy has a statement from Hobbs expressing coneen] that he was not cited.
McInnis' campaign admits he should have cited Hobbs, but did not; and his c.ampaign spokesman, Sean Duffy, has not responded to multiple phone calls. Monday night, the l'lasan foundation released a statement.
"I am shocked, angry and disappointed," said Seeme Hasan. " Any work related to the fellowship that Mr. McInnis submitted was always represented as final. At no time, whatsoever, did Mr. McInnis communicate that any of the work were 'rougtl drafts.' Any representation that they were submitted to the Foundation as 'rough drafts' is absolutely
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"In addition, there were never discussions nor any knowledge by the Foundation that Mr. ~lcInnis was working with a "research advisor." If indeed Mr. McInnis was working with a "research advisor," it was never brought to our attention, nor aU~lorized. The work that the Foundation hired Mr. McInnis to do was to be done solely by ~lr. Mcinnis, and oot in concert with anyone else. "The Hasan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely seriOUSly. At no time was it brought to our altention that Mr. McInnis used information not Cited or unethically lIsed work that was not his own. All work was represented to be o11glnal and final. We will conduct an independent, internal investigation and if the allegations are proven to be true, we will demand Mr. McInnis retum all monies paid to him by the Foundation."
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Although GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Mcinnis presented his "Musings on Water" for publication as original works, portions are identical and nearly identical to an essay on water written 20 years earlier by now-Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs. A Clemson University expert who reviewed Mcinnis' work next to Hobbs' essay called it a clear case of plagiarism of both words and ideas. Mcinnis' water articles were a required part of his two-year fellowship at the Hasan Family Foundation In 2005 and 2006. The former congressman, Who left office in 2004, 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."
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Totaling 150 pages over 23 installments, the articles discussing stale water policy are devoid of footnotes, endnotes or other forms of attribution. In at least four of those articles, Mcinnis' work mirrors Hobbs' 1984 essay published by the Colorado Water Congress, "Green Mountain
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Reservoir: Lock or Key?" In one of his installments of the musings, titled "Pump backs and Roundtables," Mcinnis uses four full pages that are nearly reprinted verbatim from Hobbs' earlier work. The justice reviewed examples of his work and Mcinnis' essays provided by The Denver Post and released a statement through court spokesman Rob McCallum. "There are definite similarities," Hobbs said. "I would expect there would be some attribution." Mcinnis, a lawyer and partner at Hogan Lovells, refused to comment. His spokesman, Sean Duffy, said Mcinnis acknowledged the similarities but blamed a researcher. Rolly Fischer, a Glenwood Springs engineer who worked at the Colorado River Water Conservation District, Duffy said, was the one who handled the portions that used Hobbs' work without attribution. "It should've been attributed properly and it was not," Duffy said, "(Mcinnis) relied on the research and expertise" of Fischer. Fischer did not ratum calls late Monday, His name appears nowhere on the work Mcinnis submitted as his own for publication by the Hasan Family Foundation. Duffy said he did not know how much Fischer was paid as Mcinnis' assistant but was looking into it.
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Copies of his work provided to The Post by the Mcinnis campaign were stamped "DRAFT" by a campaign lawyer, but the campaign acknowledged that the newspaper's copies were the final versions Mcinnis submitted to the Hasan Family Foundation as part of his fellowship, "Deeply disappointed" In a phone interview Monday night, Dr, Malik Hasan said he hired MCinnis as a fellow because of his work on the House Natural Resources Commillee and his expertise on water issues, He said he expected it would be a full- or substantlal-tlme job because the project included educating the public on Colorado water uses and how the state could be more diligent in protecting fts rivers, But soon after he started his fellowship, Mcinnis took a Job at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), leaving lillie time for the project, Hasan said, Speaking only for himse~ and not for the foundation board, of which he is a member, Hasan said he was "deeply disappOinted by the quantity and quality of Mcinnis' work, "I am doubly disapPOinted since learning of the plagiarism," he said. "I'm going to suggest (Mcinnis) return a substantial amount of the money to the foundation." The chairwoman of the foundation released
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"In light of the accusations against Scott Mcinnis regarding plagiarism of articles to the Hasan Family Foundation, I am shocked, angry and disappointed," the statement from Seeme Hasan said. "Any work related to the fellowship that Mr, Mcinnis submitted was always represented as final. At no time, whatsoever, did Mr. MCinnis communicate that any of the work were 'rough drafts.' Any representation that they were submitted to the Foundation as 'rough drafts' is absolutely incorrect. "In addition, there were never discussions nor any knowledge by the Foundation that Mr. Mcinnis was working with a 'research advisor: .., The work that the Foundation hired Mr. Mcinnis to do was to be done solely by Mr, Mcinnis, and not in concert with anyone else, "The Hasan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely seriously, At no time was it brought to our attention that Mr, Mcinnis used Information not cHed or unethically used work thai was not his own. All work was represented 10 be original and final. We will conduct an independent, internal investigation and nthe allegations are proven to be true, we will demand Mr, Mcinnis return all monies paid to him by the Foundation." Mcinnis' articles were not posted to the foundation's website until he began his run for governor, and media inquired about what he did to earn $300,000. Duffy said thai when he submllled each installment of his musings, Mcinnis did not intend the articles to be published as submitted by him. He expected to edit them when the foundation decided to publish, In 2005, Mcinnis wrote a memo to Seeme Hasan, the chairwoman of the foundation, updating her on his fellowship program, Noting his series of articles, Mcinnis said: "All the articles are original and not reprinted from any other source," At the end of his fellowship, he wrote Seeme Hasan a memo dated Feb, 10,2007, saying the foundation had in "its custody the final form of the series."
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"I am very pleased with the articles and am confident thai they will service the public Interesl for some time as well-researched, easy-read and on-point articles," Hobbs' essay on Ihe Green Mountain reservoir addressed the intricaCies of a proposed water exchange project that involved the reservOir, the Colorado..Big Thompson Project and Denver, MCinnis makes reference to the years of history surrounding the reservoir in a number of articles. At times, he uses identical, complex phrases also employed by HObbs, such as "constant vigilance" and "key 10 a complex interlOCk," And entire sentences - even paragraphs - are identical but for a synonym or two and tense change, Same words, Ideas Teresa Fishman, director of Ihe Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University, said plagiarism comes in two forms: ideas and words, "In this case, It looks like plagiarism of bolh - words and ideas lifted from an original source," said Fishman, who compared Hobbs' work with that of Mcinnis at the request of The Post. She said that if Mcinnis were her student, she would give him an "F" and "report him to the academic dishonesty council." For instance, at the end of Hobbs' 3D-page essay, he writes, "It is said that Wayne Aspinall, shortly before his death, cautioned western Colorado water leaders against giving up Green Mountain Reservoir, the key to the Colorado River which the Western Slope Protective ASSOCiation fashioned forty-six years ago."
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Mcinnis, who also used the Aspinall quote near the end of an article, wrote: "The late Wayne Aspinall, who had been Colorado's 4th District Congressman ", admonished western Colorado water leaders not to ever give up Green Mountain Reservoir, the key to the Colorado River, which the Western Slope Protective Association had forged so carefully In the lale 1930s," In recent years, allegations of plagiarism have become regular features in campaigns, Most notably, now, Vice President Joe Biden was forced to drop out of the race for president in 1987 after it was revealed he had appropriated an anecdote from a British politician in a speech and had been accused of plagiarism in law school.
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"fhe man who recommended Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis for a $300,000 fell0'Nsl1ip to sort out Colorado water issues said it was a ~d()uble disappointment" to ream r-londay that McInnis stands aWJsed of plagiarizing large sections of the artides 11€ claimed to tlave written for a nonprofit foundation. And ttle woman who heads the foundation that fUr1(led !'ldnnis said late Monday night that if the alienations against the fanner congressman prove accurate, she wants him to return the money. Dr. Malik Hasan told The LoioTIJ(jO Statesman In an Interview Monday night that Mcinnis taHod to perform the work the Hasan family Foundation antiCipated when Mclnnis ac,cepted what I:h~l philanthropic body considered a two-year commitment to help protect the state's water Interests. McInnis was awarder] a fellowship in 2005 <liter ret1ring from Congress, where he represented the Western Slope and southern ColorMo for six terms.
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Soon after ilc<:eptlng the fellowship, McInnis informed the foundation he had also taken a full time job with the Washington, I),C. -bilsed law firm Hogan 8< Haltson (renamed Hogan Lovell. earlier this year after its merger with a giant British law firm), Hasan said he "was not particularly thrilled" with I:he news but I:hat McInnis assured him he wouldn't "notice any ctlange in (his) enthusrasm" or his work 011 the fellowship devoted to water interests.
"But to tell you the truth," Hasan said, '1 was disappointed both with the quantity and the quality of work he put into it. Now that I'm hearing even the small amount: of work Ile put in the I11:\WS seems tIe may have plagiarized It _.. that's a (louble disappOintment."
Hasan said r'lcInnis was supposed to "provide a sort of forum" where various Interested parties could come together to make sure Colorado (lets 11:5 fal' share of water.
[nstell,i, ~lclnnis penned roughly two dozen articles tItled "~lusil1gs on Water" and delivered talks based on the essays to a handful of community groups.
POItions of ttle essays ~lclrmls submitted to the. foundation appeal' to echo a 1984 artlde written for C()/()rado Water Rights, a pllblicatlon of The ColQrado Water Congress, by Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, who was then a lawyer with the Denver firm Davis, Graham & Stubbs, file Denver Post and 7News reported r""ond~y night A spokesman for tile ~ldrmls campaign admitted to 7News reporter John Farrugia the water artides Induded passages copied from Hobbs' article but blamed a researcher hired by MCinniS. Mcinnis told the Hasan family Foundation he did the work tlimself. TIl« researcher, identified by the Mclnnls campaign as Glenwood Springs reSident RQlly Fischer - wllo for 28 years headed tile Colorado River Water Conservation District - could not be reached for comment ~tonday night.
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In il statement issued late Monday by the Hasan Family Foundation, chairwoman Seeme Hasan said she was "shocked, angry and disappointed" to learn Mdrmis might have plagiarized material during his fellowship with the foundation, She 1IIso said the foundation had been unaware McInnis hired a "re&<!arch advisor" and that such activity ~was never brought to Our attention, nor authorized" LInder the terms Qf his $300,000 fellowship.
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"My understanding is Scott was allowed to hire a research assistant at his expense, which he did," r'lcInnls strategist and longtime political ally Mike Hesse told The Statesman lal:e Monday, "And the gentleman who did the research, I think, will have a statement on ttl at tomorrow,"
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McInnis campaign spokesman Sean Duffy said he wanted to talk to the candidate iJefore commenting on Hasan's charlie, that McInnis fell short ()f expectations during "is two-year fellowship, Dan Maes, the Republican facing ~lcInnis in the August 10 primary, said the buck stops wttll Mcinnis, "I think It's Important thilt we fond the truth out, and if the truth reveals (tile articles were) indeed plaglilrized, it ultimately Is ti,e congressman's responsibility no matter who did it," M"es told 'Tile Statesman, 'He can try to lay It on someone else, but ultimat.;ly, it's his responsibility," Maes ._, who has had his own run of bad press recently over campaign finance aliegatlons " .topped short of condemning his opponent. But tllat didn't stop him frol11 tweaking McInnis: "Maybe he isn't as well versed in water as he leads everybody to believe he Is."
If tile artiCles w{'re plagiarized, t'lclnnis might have to refund the money he was paid to write them, Miles S(jgg€~i:e(l
"I thinK he should be subject to whatever laws 0" polides apply In this situation if indeed he did plagiarize," t~aes said, "And if retuming the money is one option, it sl>ould certainly be
considered, " The wornan who runs the foundation that paid for the articles sounded more certain. "TIle Hilsan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely serIOu!ily," Seeme Hasan ((,lid. "At no time was It brought: to our attention that Mr. il'lcl.nnis USE'd information not Cited or unethically used work that was not his own. All work was represented to be original and final, We will conduct an independent, intemal investifJation and If the allegations are proven to be true, we will demand Mr. Mcinnis return all monies paid to him by the Foundation," Nalik Hasan said the fellowship comp<lnsated McInnis so w<;1\ _. $300,000 over two years because the foundation believed It was competing with oUler potential fllll~time ernployers seeking to hire the SOOf}"to···be former congressman. TI1(~ pay came Close to matching what Mclnnis would have made if he'd taken a Job runnin\! a (:ollege, Hasan said, citing as an example one position ~lclnnls was rumon,d to be mnsidering, r<1c[nnis' background in Congress, including 11 seat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, made him ideally suited to tackle problems surrounding Colorado's water interests, Hasan t{aid.
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original Idea was that he would create an awareness in ColoradO of the \~hallenge posed by tl'e distribution of the water rights from the Coloraelo River and the water that flows (other direttions) from Colorado," Hasan said, In ilddition, r1cInnis would spend time "organizing anel helPing keep more of the water in Colorado," Wl'lich had 'ended up getting the short end of the
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Q good pro.ject: for Scott with his background:' he said, addinfj that the foundation intended to 'fund him almost at the I,wel of a full-time person. That: was the idea going Forward,'f
However, after Nclnnis took an additional full"tirne job with Hogan & Hartson, )-Iasan said it became apparent: he wasn't doing ttle work tile foundation had expected, Hasan said his wife, in her capacity as the foundation's chairwoman. 'wrote hirn a very nice letter saying, tilis Is what the foundation expected to 111m to do, and baslcally telling Ilim tllat l1e needed to do more." in 2006, when it carne time to consider renewing Mcinnis' fellowship, Hasan said the former congressman'" .job performance made the foundation's deCISion an ellsy one. "The feeling waf" if he did a good job, we would review It ilno (!xtend it: for another year ()I two," Hasan said, "Aft.,r two years, Scott called and asked if it would be extended. ! said, 'In good faith, :I. cannot recommend that to the foundation board. m The fellowship terminated after running out Its original perlod l Hasan said, Earlier this year, when press inquiries raised questions about the work r-1cInnls did for the foundation. Hasan said his wife approachecl t'lesse and suggested It was up to Mcinnis '"" not the to set the record straight. foundation "She said to bim that there are problems here," Hasan said. "Rather than tile foundation comlnfl in and clarifying, It would be better if Scott !Jut out a statement Indicating what l1e was supposed to do, and what he did, and what he couldn1 do because he was too busy," Hasan said no one heard back from McInnis or his representatives, which is why he wanted to go public with his concerns on ~londay. Hesse disagreerJ with Hasan's version of events, In an interView witll The Stl'lt(,>sman, Hesse said the !-i.sans merely wanted to make sure their foundation was portrayed in a good IifJht as press attention turned to the articles r,1clnnls wrote during hiS fellowship. "TIley expressed to me concern over the fact they have don.; a lot of good things for Colorado, and they were worried hOw this might reflect on the foundation. So they asked me to convey to Scott that I'le emphasize the fact that the foul'lrJation has done a lot of [Jreat things for Colorado and wlil c.ontinlJ(~ to do so, a Hesse said, "That's my recolledion what they asked for," tle added,
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Long-time local resident Rolly Fischer on Tuesday declined to say much about his involvement in a research paper that gubernatorial candidate, and former Congressman Scott Mcinnis wrote to meet a fellowship deadline. "Scott's responsible for " stated Fisher, an engineer who worked for the Colorado River Water Conservation for, when asked whether he was responsible for articles attributed to Mcinnis. Beyond that, Fisher said flatly, "I have nothing to say." Mcinnis, a Glenwood Springs native who is seeking the Republican nomination to become Colorado's next governor, was awarded a fellowship in 2005 and 2006 by the Hasan Family Foundation, a Pueblo-based organization, shortly after he retired from Congress. The fellowship included a payment of $300,000 for speaking engagements and to research and write a monthly article on state water issues, according to a story in the July 13 Denver Post. But shortly after getting the fellowship, according to the Post, Mcinnis got a job with the Denver law firm of Hogan &; Hartson, leaving him pressed for time to finish the fellowship articles. At some pOint, according to the Post, Fisher got involved, although his name does not appear anywhere in the documents. Numerous passages in the articles, which reportedly totaled more than 150 pages in 23 installments, appeared to either exactly replicate or closely mirror passages from a 1984 a essay by now-Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs. The Denver Post reported that a Mcinnis aide, Sean Duffy, told a reporter that Fischer "was the one who handled the portions that used Hobbs' work without attribution." Duffy, who could not be reached for comment, also is quoted as saying the articles were not intended for publication without editing. Mcinnis was quoted by 9NEWS as calling the charges "a non,issue." The Mcinnis campaign late Tuesday issued a statement about the furor, in which the candidate acknowledged hiring Fischer to help with the articles and admitting that "it has now become clear that much of the research was in fact taken from other source material without proper attribution. While I do not believe that this was a deliberate act, it was a serious mistake. I should have been more vigilant in my review of research material Rolly submitted." In a statement from the Hasan Family Foundation, chairwoman Seeme Hasan said of the accusations against Mcinnis, "I am shocked, angry and disappointed. Any work related to the fellowship that Mr. Mcinnis submitted was always represented as final. At no time, whatsoever, did Mr. Mcinnis communicate that any of the work were 'rough drafts.' Any representation that they were submitted to the Foundation as 'rough drafts' is absolutely incorrect." Hasan also declared that the foundation was not told Mcinnis was relying on research other than his own.
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"The Hasan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely seriously," the statement concludes. "All [Mcinnis'] work was represented to be original and final. 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. " A spokesperson for the Colorado Bar Association said there are no rules that address accusations of plagiarism
against attorneys, although if an attorney were convicted of the crime of plagiarism the Bar might take some
disciplinary action.
But Luis Toro, director of Colorado Ethics Watch, said that if true, the charges could threaten Mcinnis' license to practice law in the state. According to an article in the Colorado Statesman, a non-partisan political organ, Toro said that such a finding
would "raise serious questions about Mcinnis' compliance with the ethics rules that apply to all Colorado
lawyers,"
On Tuesday, Colorado House Speaker Terrance Carroll called for Mcinnis, a former six-term congressman, to
withdraw from the gubernatorial race.
"Coloradans deserve better than Scott Mcinnis," said Carroll, a Democrat. In response to Carroll's statement, Colorado Republican Party chair Dick Wadhams issued his own broadside, saying, "I know it must be difficult for Terrance Carroll to understand how irrelevant he is as a lame duck state representative. But while he's on his moral high horse today, maybe he can tell Coloradans if Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper was lying in Copenhagen when he attacked skeptics of global warming or was Hickenlooper lying to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association when he said he himself was a skeptic of global warming." Mcinnis, in his statement, said of the matter, "It's unacceptable, it's inexcusable ... In the coming days, I hope
we can put this matter behind us and focus on solving the many problems that face our state."
Mcinnis will face fellow Republican Dan Maes in the August 10 primary to see who will face Hickenlooper in
November.
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Former Rep. Scott Mcinnis has joined the Hasan Family Foundation as a senior fellow, it was announced Wednesday. McInnis, a Colorado Republican, retired from the 3rd Congressional District and will work on natural resource issues for the Pueblo-based foundation, which was established by Dr. Malik and Seeme Hasan. \"When Rep. Mcinnis retired, we were concerned that Colorado would lose a strong voice on water and natural resource issues, so we asked him to serve as a senior fellow with the foundation,\" said Mrs. Hasan, who is chairwoman of the foundation. \"Because the foundation is committed to promoting education, we want Mr. McInnis to be available to any group wanting to hear his expertise on these issues.\" As a senior fellow, Mcinnis will make speaking appearances around the state as well as write about water and natural resource issues. Mcinnis said he was honored to be named to the two-year position of being a senior fellow. \"1 have great respect for the Hasan Family Foundation and its mission to educate the public on the importance of balanced natural resources utilization in Colorado and the West,\" he said. McInnis is the former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health and wrote the Healthy Forest Restoration Act which President Bush signed last year. He also played a leading role in the establishment of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. He currently is a partner in the law firm of Hogan and Hartson and serves on several corporate boards, including KSL Resorts and ING.
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DENVER - Calls for Republican Scott McInnis to abandon his run for governor coold come as early as Tuesday afternoon from Democrats in the wake of the (ilndidate's apparent plagiarism and fraud.
The Denver Post was the first to discover that essays submitted for publication by GOP Mcinnis appear to include passages that were plagiarized from another soun;e Without attribution. Mcfnnis received $300,000 from the Malik and Seeme Hasan Foundation to author a series of articles on water as part of a two-year fellowship from 2005-06.
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Now, with the governor's race tumlng Into a dogfight, the deal has tumed sour tor McInnis as various news agencies have uncovered that McInnis's writings include word-tor-word passages lifted from an original article printed in 1984 by now Colorado Supreme Court Justice GI'egory Hobbs in the periodical Colorddo Water Rights. Compare Hobbs' article, linked here with McInnis's, linked here.
The Denver Post's Karen Crummy has a statement from Hobbs expressing coneen] that he was not cited.
McInnis' campaign admits he should have cited Hobbs, but did not; and his c.ampaign spokesman, Sean Duffy, has not responded to multiple phone calls. Monday night, the l'lasan foundation released a statement.
"I am shocked, angry and disappointed," said Seeme Hasan. " Any work related to the fellowship that Mr. McInnis submitted was always represented as final. At no time, whatsoever, did Mr. McInnis communicate that any of the work were 'rougtl drafts.' Any representation that they were submitted to the Foundation as 'rough drafts' is absolutely
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Although GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Mcinnis presented his "Musings on Water" for publication as original works, portions are identical and nearly identical to an essay on water written 20 years earlier by now-Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs. A Clemson University expert who reviewed Mcinnis' work next to Hobbs' essay called it a clear case of plagiarism of both words and ideas. Mcinnis' water articles were a required part of his two-year fellowship at the Hasan Family Foundation In 2005 and 2006. The former congressman, Who left office in 2004, 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."
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Totaling 150 pages over 23 installments, the articles discussing stale water policy are devoid of footnotes, endnotes or other forms of attribution. In at least four of those articles, Mcinnis' work mirrors Hobbs' 1984 essay published by the Colorado Water Congress, "Green Mountain
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Reservoir: Lock or Key?" In one of his installments of the musings, titled "Pump backs and Roundtables," Mcinnis uses four full pages that are nearly reprinted verbatim from Hobbs' earlier work. The justice reviewed examples of his work and Mcinnis' essays provided by The Denver Post and released a statement through court spokesman Rob McCallum. "There are definite similarities," Hobbs said. "I would expect there would be some attribution." Mcinnis, a lawyer and partner at Hogan Lovells, refused to comment. His spokesman, Sean Duffy, said Mcinnis acknowledged the similarities but blamed a researcher. Rolly Fischer, a Glenwood Springs engineer who worked at the Colorado River Water Conservation District, Duffy said, was the one who handled the portions that used Hobbs' work without attribution. "It should've been attributed properly and it was not," Duffy said, "(Mcinnis) relied on the research and expertise" of Fischer. Fischer did not ratum calls late Monday, His name appears nowhere on the work Mcinnis submitted as his own for publication by the Hasan Family Foundation. Duffy said he did not know how much Fischer was paid as Mcinnis' assistant but was looking into it.
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Copies of his work provided to The Post by the Mcinnis campaign were stamped "DRAFT" by a campaign lawyer, but the campaign acknowledged that the newspaper's copies were the final versions Mcinnis submitted to the Hasan Family Foundation as part of his fellowship, "Deeply disappointed" In a phone interview Monday night, Dr, Malik Hasan said he hired MCinnis as a fellow because of his work on the House Natural Resources Commillee and his expertise on water issues, He said he expected it would be a full- or substantlal-tlme job because the project included educating the public on Colorado water uses and how the state could be more diligent in protecting fts rivers, But soon after he started his fellowship, Mcinnis took a Job at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), leaving lillie time for the project, Hasan said, Speaking only for himse~ and not for the foundation board, of which he is a member, Hasan said he was "deeply disappOinted by the quantity and quality of Mcinnis' work, "I am doubly disapPOinted since learning of the plagiarism," he said. "I'm going to suggest (Mcinnis) return a substantial amount of the money to the foundation." The chairwoman of the foundation released
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"In light of the accusations against Scott Mcinnis regarding plagiarism of articles to the Hasan Family Foundation, I am shocked, angry and disappointed," the statement from Seeme Hasan said. "Any work related to the fellowship that Mr, Mcinnis submitted was always represented as final. At no time, whatsoever, did Mr. MCinnis communicate that any of the work were 'rough drafts.' Any representation that they were submitted to the Foundation as 'rough drafts' is absolutely incorrect. "In addition, there were never discussions nor any knowledge by the Foundation that Mr. Mcinnis was working with a 'research advisor: .., The work that the Foundation hired Mr. Mcinnis to do was to be done solely by Mr, Mcinnis, and not in concert with anyone else, "The Hasan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely seriously, At no time was it brought to our attention that Mr, Mcinnis used Information not cHed or unethically used work thai was not his own. All work was represented 10 be original and final. We will conduct an independent, internal investigation and nthe allegations are proven to be true, we will demand Mr, Mcinnis return all monies paid to him by the Foundation." Mcinnis' articles were not posted to the foundation's website until he began his run for governor, and media inquired about what he did to earn $300,000. Duffy said thai when he submllled each installment of his musings, Mcinnis did not intend the articles to be published as submitted by him. He expected to edit them when the foundation decided to publish, In 2005, Mcinnis wrote a memo to Seeme Hasan, the chairwoman of the foundation, updating her on his fellowship program, Noting his series of articles, Mcinnis said: "All the articles are original and not reprinted from any other source," At the end of his fellowship, he wrote Seeme Hasan a memo dated Feb, 10,2007, saying the foundation had in "its custody the final form of the series."
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"I am very pleased with the articles and am confident thai they will service the public Interesl for some time as well-researched, easy-read and on-point articles," Hobbs' essay on Ihe Green Mountain reservoir addressed the intricaCies of a proposed water exchange project that involved the reservOir, the Colorado..Big Thompson Project and Denver, MCinnis makes reference to the years of history surrounding the reservoir in a number of articles. At times, he uses identical, complex phrases also employed by HObbs, such as "constant vigilance" and "key 10 a complex interlOCk," And entire sentences - even paragraphs - are identical but for a synonym or two and tense change, Same words, Ideas Teresa Fishman, director of Ihe Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University, said plagiarism comes in two forms: ideas and words, "In this case, It looks like plagiarism of bolh - words and ideas lifted from an original source," said Fishman, who compared Hobbs' work with that of Mcinnis at the request of The Post. She said that if Mcinnis were her student, she would give him an "F" and "report him to the academic dishonesty council." For instance, at the end of Hobbs' 3D-page essay, he writes, "It is said that Wayne Aspinall, shortly before his death, cautioned western Colorado water leaders against giving up Green Mountain Reservoir, the key to the Colorado River which the Western Slope Protective ASSOCiation fashioned forty-six years ago."
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Mcinnis, who also used the Aspinall quote near the end of an article, wrote: "The late Wayne Aspinall, who had been Colorado's 4th District Congressman ", admonished western Colorado water leaders not to ever give up Green Mountain Reservoir, the key to the Colorado River, which the Western Slope Protective Association had forged so carefully In the lale 1930s," In recent years, allegations of plagiarism have become regular features in campaigns, Most notably, now, Vice President Joe Biden was forced to drop out of the race for president in 1987 after it was revealed he had appropriated an anecdote from a British politician in a speech and had been accused of plagiarism in law school.
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McInnis plagiarism charges called 'double disappointment'
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"fhe man who recommended Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis for a $300,000 fell0'Nsl1ip to sort out Colorado water issues said it was a ~d()uble disappointment" to ream r-londay that McInnis stands aWJsed of plagiarizing large sections of the artides 11€ claimed to tlave written for a nonprofit foundation. And ttle woman who heads the foundation that fUr1(led !'ldnnis said late Monday night that if the alienations against the fanner congressman prove accurate, she wants him to return the money. Dr. Malik Hasan told The LoioTIJ(jO Statesman In an Interview Monday night that Mcinnis taHod to perform the work the Hasan family Foundation antiCipated when Mclnnis ac,cepted what I:h~l philanthropic body considered a two-year commitment to help protect the state's water Interests. McInnis was awarder] a fellowship in 2005 <liter ret1ring from Congress, where he represented the Western Slope and southern ColorMo for six terms.
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expectation was, he would work full time or (.it !ea~t a substantial amount of tlme, and the effort was not Just publishing 50l11e a<tides but educating the public/, said Hasan, who mnphasiz€r] he was speaking for himself and not on behalf of the foundatlon, whi~ft is chafree] by his wife, Seeme Hasan,
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Soon after ilc<:eptlng the fellowship, McInnis informed the foundation he had also taken a full time job with the Washington, I),C. -bilsed law firm Hogan 8< Haltson (renamed Hogan Lovell. earlier this year after its merger with a giant British law firm), Hasan said he "was not particularly thrilled" with I:he news but I:hat McInnis assured him he wouldn't "notice any ctlange in (his) enthusrasm" or his work 011 the fellowship devoted to water interests.
"But to tell you the truth," Hasan said, '1 was disappointed both with the quantity and the quality of work he put into it. Now that I'm hearing even the small amount: of work Ile put in the I11:\WS seems tIe may have plagiarized It _.. that's a (louble disappOintment."
Hasan said r'lcInnis was supposed to "provide a sort of forum" where various Interested parties could come together to make sure Colorado (lets 11:5 fal' share of water.
[nstell,i, ~lclnnis penned roughly two dozen articles tItled "~lusil1gs on Water" and delivered talks based on the essays to a handful of community groups.
POItions of ttle essays ~lclrmls submitted to the. foundation appeal' to echo a 1984 artlde written for C()/()rado Water Rights, a pllblicatlon of The ColQrado Water Congress, by Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, who was then a lawyer with the Denver firm Davis, Graham & Stubbs, file Denver Post and 7News reported r""ond~y night A spokesman for tile ~ldrmls campaign admitted to 7News reporter John Farrugia the water artides Induded passages copied from Hobbs' article but blamed a researcher hired by MCinniS. Mcinnis told the Hasan family Foundation he did the work tlimself. TIl« researcher, identified by the Mclnnls campaign as Glenwood Springs reSident RQlly Fischer - wllo for 28 years headed tile Colorado River Water Conservation District - could not be reached for comment ~tonday night.
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In il statement issued late Monday by the Hasan Family Foundation, chairwoman Seeme Hasan said she was "shocked, angry and disappointed" to learn Mdrmis might have plagiarized material during his fellowship with the foundation, She 1IIso said the foundation had been unaware McInnis hired a "re&<!arch advisor" and that such activity ~was never brought to Our attention, nor authorized" LInder the terms Qf his $300,000 fellowship.
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"My understanding is Scott was allowed to hire a research assistant at his expense, which he did," r'lcInnls strategist and longtime political ally Mike Hesse told The Statesman lal:e Monday, "And the gentleman who did the research, I think, will have a statement on ttl at tomorrow,"
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McInnis campaign spokesman Sean Duffy said he wanted to talk to the candidate iJefore commenting on Hasan's charlie, that McInnis fell short ()f expectations during "is two-year fellowship, Dan Maes, the Republican facing ~lcInnis in the August 10 primary, said the buck stops wttll Mcinnis, "I think It's Important thilt we fond the truth out, and if the truth reveals (tile articles were) indeed plaglilrized, it ultimately Is ti,e congressman's responsibility no matter who did it," M"es told 'Tile Statesman, 'He can try to lay It on someone else, but ultimat.;ly, it's his responsibility," Maes ._, who has had his own run of bad press recently over campaign finance aliegatlons " .topped short of condemning his opponent. But tllat didn't stop him frol11 tweaking McInnis: "Maybe he isn't as well versed in water as he leads everybody to believe he Is."
If tile artiCles w{'re plagiarized, t'lclnnis might have to refund the money he was paid to write them, Miles S(jgg€~i:e(l
"I thinK he should be subject to whatever laws 0" polides apply In this situation if indeed he did plagiarize," t~aes said, "And if retuming the money is one option, it sl>ould certainly be
considered, " The wornan who runs the foundation that paid for the articles sounded more certain. "TIle Hilsan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely serIOu!ily," Seeme Hasan ((,lid. "At no time was It brought: to our attention that Mr. il'lcl.nnis USE'd information not Cited or unethically used work that was not his own. All work was represented to be original and final, We will conduct an independent, intemal investifJation and If the allegations are proven to be true, we will demand Mr. Mcinnis return all monies paid to him by the Foundation," Nalik Hasan said the fellowship comp<lnsated McInnis so w<;1\ _. $300,000 over two years because the foundation believed It was competing with oUler potential fllll~time ernployers seeking to hire the SOOf}"to···be former congressman. TI1(~ pay came Close to matching what Mclnnis would have made if he'd taken a Job runnin\! a (:ollege, Hasan said, citing as an example one position ~lclnnls was rumon,d to be mnsidering, r<1c[nnis' background in Congress, including 11 seat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, made him ideally suited to tackle problems surrounding Colorado's water interests, Hasan t{aid.
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original Idea was that he would create an awareness in ColoradO of the \~hallenge posed by tl'e distribution of the water rights from the Coloraelo River and the water that flows (other direttions) from Colorado," Hasan said, In ilddition, r1cInnis would spend time "organizing anel helPing keep more of the water in Colorado," Wl'lich had 'ended up getting the short end of the
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Q good pro.ject: for Scott with his background:' he said, addinfj that the foundation intended to 'fund him almost at the I,wel of a full-time person. That: was the idea going Forward,'f
However, after Nclnnis took an additional full"tirne job with Hogan & Hartson, )-Iasan said it became apparent: he wasn't doing ttle work tile foundation had expected, Hasan said his wife, in her capacity as the foundation's chairwoman. 'wrote hirn a very nice letter saying, tilis Is what the foundation expected to 111m to do, and baslcally telling Ilim tllat l1e needed to do more." in 2006, when it carne time to consider renewing Mcinnis' fellowship, Hasan said the former congressman'" .job performance made the foundation's deCISion an ellsy one. "The feeling waf" if he did a good job, we would review It ilno (!xtend it: for another year ()I two," Hasan said, "Aft.,r two years, Scott called and asked if it would be extended. ! said, 'In good faith, :I. cannot recommend that to the foundation board. m The fellowship terminated after running out Its original perlod l Hasan said, Earlier this year, when press inquiries raised questions about the work r-1cInnls did for the foundation. Hasan said his wife approachecl t'lesse and suggested It was up to Mcinnis '"" not the to set the record straight. foundation "She said to bim that there are problems here," Hasan said. "Rather than tile foundation comlnfl in and clarifying, It would be better if Scott !Jut out a statement Indicating what l1e was supposed to do, and what he did, and what he couldn1 do because he was too busy," Hasan said no one heard back from McInnis or his representatives, which is why he wanted to go public with his concerns on ~londay. Hesse disagreerJ with Hasan's version of events, In an interView witll The Stl'lt(,>sman, Hesse said the !-i.sans merely wanted to make sure their foundation was portrayed in a good IifJht as press attention turned to the articles r,1clnnls wrote during hiS fellowship. "TIley expressed to me concern over the fact they have don.; a lot of good things for Colorado, and they were worried hOw this might reflect on the foundation. So they asked me to convey to Scott that I'le emphasize the fact that the foul'lrJation has done a lot of [Jreat things for Colorado and wlil c.ontinlJ(~ to do so, a Hesse said, "That's my recolledion what they asked for," tle added,
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he thinks they have done a lot of go()d things," Hesse said.
Hasan said recent events have changed his assessment of Hclnnls.
"I always thought In my dealings with him that he was straight10rward ar,d tl0fHlrable, but In
this matter, as 1 s(lld, I was disappointed."
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Foundation responds harshly to questionable essay by Mcinnis
Glenwood engineer linked to writings that earned governor candidate $300,000
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Long-time local resident Rolly Fischer on Tuesday declined to say much about his involvement in a research paper that gubernatorial candidate, and former Congressman Scott Mcinnis wrote to meet a fellowship deadline. "Scott's responsible for " stated Fisher, an engineer who worked for the Colorado River Water Conservation for, when asked whether he was responsible for articles attributed to Mcinnis. Beyond that, Fisher said flatly, "I have nothing to say." Mcinnis, a Glenwood Springs native who is seeking the Republican nomination to become Colorado's next governor, was awarded a fellowship in 2005 and 2006 by the Hasan Family Foundation, a Pueblo-based organization, shortly after he retired from Congress. The fellowship included a payment of $300,000 for speaking engagements and to research and write a monthly article on state water issues, according to a story in the July 13 Denver Post. But shortly after getting the fellowship, according to the Post, Mcinnis got a job with the Denver law firm of Hogan &; Hartson, leaving him pressed for time to finish the fellowship articles. At some pOint, according to the Post, Fisher got involved, although his name does not appear anywhere in the documents. Numerous passages in the articles, which reportedly totaled more than 150 pages in 23 installments, appeared to either exactly replicate or closely mirror passages from a 1984 a essay by now-Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory J. Hobbs. The Denver Post reported that a Mcinnis aide, Sean Duffy, told a reporter that Fischer "was the one who handled the portions that used Hobbs' work without attribution." Duffy, who could not be reached for comment, also is quoted as saying the articles were not intended for publication without editing. Mcinnis was quoted by 9NEWS as calling the charges "a non,issue." The Mcinnis campaign late Tuesday issued a statement about the furor, in which the candidate acknowledged hiring Fischer to help with the articles and admitting that "it has now become clear that much of the research was in fact taken from other source material without proper attribution. While I do not believe that this was a deliberate act, it was a serious mistake. I should have been more vigilant in my review of research material Rolly submitted." In a statement from the Hasan Family Foundation, chairwoman Seeme Hasan said of the accusations against Mcinnis, "I am shocked, angry and disappointed. Any work related to the fellowship that Mr. Mcinnis submitted was always represented as final. At no time, whatsoever, did Mr. Mcinnis communicate that any of the work were 'rough drafts.' Any representation that they were submitted to the Foundation as 'rough drafts' is absolutely incorrect." Hasan also declared that the foundation was not told Mcinnis was relying on research other than his own.
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"The Hasan Family Foundation takes the issue of plagiarism extremely seriously," the statement concludes. "All [Mcinnis'] work was represented to be original and final. 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. " A spokesperson for the Colorado Bar Association said there are no rules that address accusations of plagiarism
against attorneys, although if an attorney were convicted of the crime of plagiarism the Bar might take some
disciplinary action.
But Luis Toro, director of Colorado Ethics Watch, said that if true, the charges could threaten Mcinnis' license to practice law in the state. According to an article in the Colorado Statesman, a non-partisan political organ, Toro said that such a finding
would "raise serious questions about Mcinnis' compliance with the ethics rules that apply to all Colorado
lawyers,"
On Tuesday, Colorado House Speaker Terrance Carroll called for Mcinnis, a former six-term congressman, to
withdraw from the gubernatorial race.
"Coloradans deserve better than Scott Mcinnis," said Carroll, a Democrat. In response to Carroll's statement, Colorado Republican Party chair Dick Wadhams issued his own broadside, saying, "I know it must be difficult for Terrance Carroll to understand how irrelevant he is as a lame duck state representative. But while he's on his moral high horse today, maybe he can tell Coloradans if Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper was lying in Copenhagen when he attacked skeptics of global warming or was Hickenlooper lying to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association when he said he himself was a skeptic of global warming." Mcinnis, in his statement, said of the matter, "It's unacceptable, it's inexcusable ... In the coming days, I hope
we can put this matter behind us and focus on solving the many problems that face our state."
Mcinnis will face fellow Republican Dan Maes in the August 10 primary to see who will face Hickenlooper in
November.
Gov. Bill Ritter is not running for re-election after one term. [email protected]
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