Spotted at the Colorado Water Congress in Vail Friday: Republican Dan Maes standing near a table where Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs was signing books.
The irony was delicious.
The Water Congress invited Maes to speak at its summer meeting because he is the GOP nominee for governor, which Hobbs inadvertently had a hand in.
Most polls earlier this summer showed Maes losing the primary to former Congressman Scott McInnis. But in mid July The Denver Post reported that water papers McInnis was paid $300,000 to write contained plagiarized passages written by Hobbs before he was a judge. McInnis’ campaign spiraled after that.
Hobbs, an expert on water law and author of several publications, spoke to the Water Congress Thursday.
(Check out what Maes and Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper had to say at the conference by reading Joe Hanel’s account in the Cortez Journal.)