Miller Campaign Takes the Gloves Off

The Miller campaign is taking the gloves off – calls themselves “country,” and their GOP rivals, “country club.” The attack is a reference to rival Rick Hill’s career as an Insurance Industry Executive and Neil Livingstone’s bid to get Libyan

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The Assman Raiseth

Steve Bullock blew Rick Hill out of the water this fundraising period, raising almost twice what Hill raised, the Billings Gazette reports this week.  That doesn’t surprise me, because Hill has baggage and GOP activists and donors have steadily been …

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Today’s Must Read Political Blog Post

Is up at the Flathead Memo.  Go there now.  You will not be disappointed.  (Hint: It has to do with one of the most incredible campaign ads I’ve ever seen.)

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UPDATED Analysis: TEA Party Republicans Lose Big in Montana Local Elections

Montanans saw sweeping victories for progressives from across the state today. And while it is yet to be seen whether this will translate into a wave of momentum for the Dems next year, one thing is known. The TEA Party …

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Technology Produces a Frontrunner in the GOP Gubernatorial Primary

In a primary season with few conclusive results so far, the latest ground breaking news in the  Republican gubernatorial primary settled a couple things: Laurel furniture salesman Ken Miller appears to be the Republican front-runner, while the dry-cleaning guy, the insurance executive, …

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The Ground Zero of Slime

City Commissions have been the hot topic in Helena and Great Falls of late, but nowhere are local politics filled with more intrigue, money, and slime than in the Flathead.

A city election would normally be a local contest with …

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This Year’s Worst Political Ad

This is so random, so bizarre. It’s best just to watch.

After watching this, I can’t decide if TEA Party Republican state legislator Derek Skees is running for a statewide office (charged with regulating the insurance industry), or launching a …

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A Rebel Yell for Montana

Creepy photo of Derek Skees with a creepy sign and a woman in a creepy mask.Confirming a story that was first reported here at the Cowgirl blog,  TEA Party Republican Derek Skees, confederate sympathizer who has tried to set up his own Little South amid the ultra-right-wing colony in the Flathead, has announced his

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Political Quick Hits

Mental Limitations

Rep. Champ Edmunds (R-Missoula) has trouble figuring out the difference between climate and weather, but that doesn’t stop him from declaring those more scientific minded than he “mentally ill.” Here’s the screenshot. 

Edmunds writes on his Facebook page …

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Legislator Pens Hilarious Rebuttal Letter

An angry TEA Party state legislator has taken issue with a letter to the editor which criticizes him and lashed out in response with a hilarious rebuttal:  “Derek Skees presentation: Letter riddled with errors.”

The letter writer, in “Skees provided

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Hate Movement “Backed by God”…But Trounced in Elections

Another good article on white supremacy in Montana is out this week.  The independent media outlet In These Times, chronicles the politics of the hate movement in Montana.

Hate-monger Chuck Baldwin says the movement is God’s work:

“I

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Angry Whitefish Legislator: I’m Not Hitler

In a letter to the editor in this week’s Whitefish Pilot, TEA Party Republican Rep. Derek Skees decries the fact that he’s been linked to extremists and tries to say that arguments made against voting for him during the …

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Will Skees Run in Whitefish?

It’s hard to imagine that TEA Party Republican Derek Skees (R-Whitefish Kalispell) could get reelected in House District 4, a moderate democratic district–especially with Tom Muri in the race (Muri doesn’t appear to have a website yet).  The 2010 …

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