Derek Skees, the House District 4 legislative candidate from the Flathead Valley who was spotted wearing the confederate flag in the Memorial day parade, had to come up with a new word in hopes of conveying how far to the right he really is (as if we haven’t figured it out already.)
On his Facebook page, Skees writes that he is a “RINOtarian,” which apparently means a Republican-In-Name-Only: only because he’s too far to the right to lower himself to being called a Republican (except, apparently, on the ballot in hopes of fooling uninformed rote-R voters).
It remains to be seen whether Flathead citizens, especially mainstream Republicans, will want someone this extreme as their Representative. My guess is that (given that Rehberg’s personal and special interest money means there is no Congressional race) Republicans will cross over and vote for mainstream Democrat Will Hammerquist.
In case you are wondering what the “Freedom Action Rally” might be, Skees himself described it thusly:
“We’re a social group that wears boxing gloves”
No word on whether or not he wears the tin hat in public.
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