I can’t quite put my finger on why this four-page letter to Whitefish voters from the wife of Republican Derek Skees, tea-party poster boy in the Flathead (profiled here by The Flathead Memo) strikes me as weird. Perhaps it’s the fact that it arrived on pink stationary inside a pink envelope. Perhaps it is because I don’t recall seeing anything quite like this from a legislative candidate’s spouse before. Could it be because she refers to the residents of House District 4 as her “neighbors,” when Skees doesn’t even live in the district, nor even in Whitefish at all? Or maybe it’s the TMI personal references to her past or the “guarantee” that we’ll eventually learn to trust him if we just elect him first.
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Uh – those are pretty common in political campaigns and are called – surprise – “wife letters”. Their purpose is for the wife/daughter/son/spouse to share some personal data so you get to “know” the candidate. They generally do not contain much in the way of political information.
As they are not generally mailed out til just before the election, I assume the one you are writing about was mailed for the Primary? If not, someone jumped the gun.
Looks like someone is giving political advice from the 1950′s. Incredible.
The slant of the script suggests she is left-handed. If so, this is a left-wing endorsement.
First this has happened before this year Representative Lee Randall’s wife sent out a letter during the primary that told about how wonderful her husband was, and over in North Dakota Governor John Hooven who is running for the US Senate his wife is doing campaing commericals so nothing unusual about a spouse campainging for a fellow spouse. But using pink stationary and pink envelopes yea thats a little over the top. Also given the video put out by the campaing of Mr. Skees I do think there is something alittle bit wierd about their marriage or the campaing especially if she wore a mask for one of the pics, so yea I question the whole thing, but Ive never been married before and my longest relationship with a woman lasted 4months. So Im not an expert
It is not surprising that politics transparent. Of course it is. It is that it is so transparent, and yet works.
The pink “harlequin romance” letters by legislative candidates’ wives are quite common among Billings Republicans. In the recent Republican primary in HD 57, candidate Dan Kennedy’s wife sent such a letter to thousands(?) of women – 6 pages with blue ink on pink paper cut to make it appear that it was handwritten on personal stationery. In that particular race, even though Mrs. Kennedy asked voters to vote for her husband, the letter failed to publish a disclaimer, which is in violation of Montana’s weakly enforced election laws. Most of these letters do break the law in that they (a) ask you to support the husband; and (b) fail to add a disclaimer.
Typically the letters breathlessly relate how the couple met, how it was love at first sight, what a wonderful guy the husband is, good father, good provider, person of faith (6 pages worth). This letter has been sent out by numerous Republican wives.
The letters are an obvious and disingenuous, but possibly effective, ploy. If the Montana press would cover this story, it might put an end to it. I think we could find some examples from 2008, or point a reporter to the wives and candidates who sent them. I am sure they still have a copy.
This letter should come with its own BARF BAG! Pew! Church, family, family, church, fellowship, and oh, don’t forget the kiddies! I don’t know about Skees, but MOST men I know “fellowship” at the local sports bar! But the timeline expressed in the letter makes no sense. The met “sixteen” years ago, married seven years ago, and have teenage kids?? Where did the teenage KIDS come from? Is family so important to Skeester that he must have a couple of them? How bout just ONE? Maybe I’m reading that letter wrong, but it doesn’t seem to add up. People do NOT have teenage kids after seven years of marriage! So, apparently these fine, godly, holier than me, kristyeean folks got a DEEvorce at some point along the way. But, wait a minute. What about all that talk about fambly??? Can we add hypocrite to the Skeester?
Well larry it is pretty obvious you are no genious maybe the wife came from a bad marraiage and the church boy Skees rescued her from a bad situation. I could think of about 20 other senerios but they are porbably beyond your intellect.
As for cowgirl what a joke. I wonder who you vote for you are a real impartial gal. oh sorry cowgal
Genious? No, you’re right b man. I’m not NEAR the genius that YOU are, dude! But I’m not INTERESTED in 20 other senerios, just the REAL scenario!
The Skees letter does have a “Paid for by…” on the final page.
The childish scrawl with the backward tilt suggests that Mrs. Skees’ problems are far from over.