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  New plagiarism question in Colo. governor campaign
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Last EditedCOSDem  Jul 14, 2010 01:54pm
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News DateWednesday, July 14, 2010 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionA Colorado gubernatorial candidate faced new allegations of plagiarism Wednesday, a day after the Republican apologized for lifting part of a judge's work for a series of essays he passed off as his own.

Parts of a newspaper column Scott McInnis wrote in 1994 and a subsequent speech he made resembled a column that appeared six weeks earlier in The Washington Post.

The earlier column was written by Richard V. Allen, a former national security adviser, and Daryl Plunk of the Heritage Foundation.

McInnis said he isn't sure who on his staff wrote the parts of the column and speech that are apparently lifted from the previous newspaper column.

"In Congress, you have lots of staff. I had hundreds of pages a day go out of my congressional office with my signature on it. We have no idea of the base material," McInnis told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "Of course I had assistants writing that."
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