{"id":2280,"date":"2009-12-16T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/democrat-gov-of-colorado-who-steered-stimulus-to-his-law-firm-badly-losing-reelection-bid\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:11:02","slug":"democrat-gov-of-colorado-who-steered-stimulus-to-his-law-firm-badly-losing-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-gov-of-colorado-who-steered-stimulus-to-his-law-firm-badly-losing-reelection-bid.php","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Gov. of Colorado who steered Stimulus $$ to his Law Firm badly losing Reelection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/SybcmmI-pSI\/AAAAAAAAIqI\/jIHr0hDEaKY\/s1600-h\/ScottMcInnes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d81ac_ScottMcInnes.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>LR FOLLOW-UP STORY<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Republican Scott McInnes now leads Ritter by 8<\/strong><\/p><p>Tea Party supporter and backer of Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) Scott McInnis now holds a comfortable lead in the Governor's race over embattled Democrat Bill Ritter.  McInnis is a former 4-term Congressman who represented the Western Slope (Grand Junction). <\/p><blockquote><p>GOVERNOR &ndash; COLORADO (Rasmussen)<br>Scott McInnis (R) 48%<br>Bill Ritter (D-inc) 40%<\/p><\/blockquote><p><strong>BACKGROUND: Original LR Story from July 11<\/strong><\/p><p>Hogan &amp; Hartson is Democrat Governor Bill Ritter's former law firm. They specialize in governmental and environmental litigation. Now, the Denver Post has learned that the Governor awarded a no-bid contract made available by Obama stimulus money to his former law partners. <\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/SybZ-tdPm-I\/AAAAAAAAIqA\/5ybJohB70Wo\/s1600-h\/BillRitterCOGov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d81ac_BillRitterCOGov.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From CBS News 4 - Denver: <\/p><blockquote><p>Gov. Ritter Steered Stimulus Money To Ex-Employer <\/p><p>Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has awarded some of the state's first stimulus money to his former employer in a no-bid contract. <\/p><p>Ritter hired his former law firm, the Washington-based Hogan &amp; Hartson, in a no-bid contract to review stimulus spending, The Denver Post reported Friday. It said the firm was paid $40,000 in stimulus money through June.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The firm has responded to the allegations. Continuing:<\/p><blockquote><p>Many of Hogan's lawyers are Ritter supporters, and two who work directly on the state's stimulus issues are contributors. <\/p><p>A managing partner for the firm, Cole Finegan, told the Post that the work was of \"tremendous importance.\" Colorado was due to receive about $3 billion in stimulus spending. <\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d81ac_7828681836623105417-2369827026778257139?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LR FOLLOW-UP STORYRepublican Scott McInnes now leads Ritter by 8Tea Party supporter and backer of Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) Scott McInnis now holds a comfortable lead in the Governor's race over embattled Democrat Bill Ritter. McInnis is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-gov-of-colorado-who-steered-stimulus-to-his-law-firm-badly-losing-reelection-bid.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}