Colorado: Mike Saccone

Say what you will about the Grand Junction Sentinel, with their wing-nut columnists (i.e. Rick Wagner and Gary Harmon), tilted editorial page (where George Will is the moderate) or wackily funny You Said It!' comments from readers upset about roundabouts, communists in the White House, or evil Bill Ritter out to tax and destroy all life on the Western Slope...

But the Sentinel has long led Colorado papers in reporting about it's turf...with numerous local reporters covering the Western Slope in the way one or two stringers for the 'state-wide' papers cannot match.

For a few years now, Mike Saccone has led the way in his reporting on Colorado and national politics, and how they might impact or play on the Western Slope.

Mike Saccone of the GJ Sentinel has liftedpicked up a story from the Denver Post Politics West suggesting that former 3rd CD Representative McInnis may be angling for a run at Governor in 2010:
Republican Scott McInnis is starting to sound more and more like a gubernatorial candidate.

The former Congressman hasn't made any official announcements yet, but on Wednesday he talked about his intention to put a poll into the field to take the pulse of state voters on a variety of issues.  And  while he applauded Gov. Bill Ritter's focus on  building a "green economy," he appeared to also chide him for not viewing things through a wider lense (sic).