McInnis accused of plagiarism

Portions of essays on water submitted for publication by gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis are identical or nearly identical to work published years earlier by now-State Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs.

“There are definite similarities,” Hobbs said in a statement released through the court after he reviewed examples provided by The Denver Post. “I would expect there would be some attribution.”

McInnis refused to comment for this story. His campaign’s spokesman, Sean Duffy, acknowledged the similarities between the work of Hobbs and McInnis, and blamed a researcher who worked with McInnis on the articles.  – More -