Public Outcry Over GOP Hypocrisy, Lack of Focus on Jobs, Increases

This weekend, letters to the editor appeared in Sunday dailies across Montana decrying the focus of Montana TEA Party Republicans in the legislature on frivolous, anti-worker, unnecessary and hypocritical bills instead of jobs.

In Billings, Republicans raise hypocrisy to art form

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So Stupid

Creepy photo of Derek Skees with a creepy sign and a woman in a creepy mask.Let’s face it.  Sometimes politicians do stupid things.  And yesterday, Derek Skees, R-TEA-Whitefish Kalispell, may have won first prize in this category with his bills to to kill green energy jobs.

In 2004 there was not a single megawatt …

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Courage Under Fire

Three cheers to Flathead County Commissioner Joe Brenneman for not taking the bait offered to him by Chuck Denowh’s Better Government PAC. When Denowh paid close to $5000 to five different Flathead Valley radio stations to attack Brenneman in his …

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Kharacteristicly Klassy Komments

Kristi Allen-Gailushas, the GOP candidate for legislature who made the Montana TEA Party famous for her crusade against health and nutrition, has issued a statement of support of the misconduct of the Montana Shrugged TEA Party, who are subject …

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The Montana GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award Goes to…

…a trifecta of  legislators: Representative Pat Ingraham, State Senator Greg Hinkle (both R-Thompson Falls) and Representative Gordon Hendrick (R-Superior).

Recently, as a writer to the Clark Fork Chronicle explained:

Republican state representatives Pat Ingraham and Gordon Hendrick and state senator

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Isn’t “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” One of Those Ten Commandment Things Joanne Blyton?

Joanne Blyton, isn't "thou shalt not bear false witness" one of those ten commandment thingies?GOP Candidate Joanne Blyton, of Carbon County, has been caught telling untruths about the voting record of her opponent, State Representative Paul Beck (D-HD 59), during a presentation to a Boyd seniors’ group on August 19, 2010.  According to …

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Facts kind of ruin everything for Roy Brown

Greg Barkus, Roy Brown, and Dan McGeeOf the many distortions and false assertions put out by Republicans recently, the subset of these known as paranoid speculations or conspiracy theories certainly stands out.  
 Perhaps it is because the Republican party has been taken over by people whose

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More problems with Sanders County Republican Central Committee actions

One of this blog’s favorite and most astute sources kindly pointed out that according to the minutes of the Sanders County Republican Central Committee referenced below and online here, as recorded by Republican Representative Pat Ingraham, the committee appears …

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More differences between Derek Skees and Will Hammerquist

Jay Stevens hilariously highlights some of the differences between the candidates for one of Montana’s key legislative races: Derek Skees (RINO-tarian, Kalispell) and the Democratic candidate in the race, Will Hammerquist.

The differences are striking.   Here’s another one, …

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Republican bothered by the “so-called notion of ‘woman’s rights’” is still single

Montana Representative Michael More (R-outer Bozeman area) makes known his views about women when he warns us on his web site that:

within the Democratic Party there is a very vocal subgroup known as the Democratic Woman’s Caucus which works

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Flathead legislative candidate is so far to the right he had to invent a new word for it

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 …

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More firefighters for Rehberg to sue? Crews from Absarokee, Columbus, Red Lodge and Reed Point helped fight Rehberg Ranch Estates LLC fires

One of the Richest Members of Congress

A friend of mine who is an avid outdoors gal (so keeps close tabs on what’s going on in fire season) reminded me of what the firefighters were going through on the ground in Billings that summer as they battled fires …

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What Bowen Doesn’t Know – MT GOP Director Fails to Win Own Republican Primary

There are a few yet-to-be-remarked upon elements of the recent legislative primary elections in Montana, one of which is the failure of the Executive Director of the Montana Republican Party to win his own election.

Bowen Greenwood election results

[Source: Montana Secretary of State …

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