Western Traditions Partnership Electioneering: You Be the Judge

The Billings Gazette is reporting today on the upcoming Sept 21 Montana Supreme Court hearing on the shadow group Western Tradition Partnership (who ditched its tainted name and became American Traditions Partnership under a barrage of bad press). Western TP …

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Flathead Memo Has “Races to Watch” Up

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In Spite of Ruling that It Broke Montana Laws, Sinrud’s Western Traditions Partnership Keeps Attacking Democrats

The Billings Gazette reported this week that John Sinrud’s so-called “Western Tradition Partnership” broke state law and should have to pay a civil fine because it failed to report its donors and register as a political action committee.

As previously

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MT TEA Party Republican Makes National TEA Party Exposé as “One of the TEA Party’s Most Radical Candidates”

Today’s exposé of a secret TEA Party mega-millionaire donor in Mother Jones also reveals that the secret donor is a supporter  of Derek Skees:

Thompson is also active in Montana politics, where [he] has supported one of the tea party’s most

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Most Revealing Republican Interview

A fine reporting job by Richard Hanners of the Whitefish Pilot, who had the good sense to let TEA Party Republican Derek Skees’ own, unfiltered words tell the story. One item of particular interest, Skees says the Civil War wasn’t …

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How Low Will a Whitefish GOP Candidate Go?

James Conner at the Flathead Memo has the scoop with a look at the dirty campaign tactics in the Whitefish house race between Derek Skees and Will Hammerquist.

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Cowgirl Gets A Showdown with Candidate on October 11

Conservative radio host Aaron Flint has announced that Derek Skees–the candidate in Whitefish who has been accused by a local group of associating with extremists and engaging in extremist behavior–will be on Flint’s show on October 11 to “respond …

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Montana TEA Party Republican Beliefs Unmasked

An article in yesterday’s New York Times tells us what this “5000 Year Leap” that TEA Party Republicans such as Derek Skees in Whitefish and James Knox in Billings are promoting is really all about, including claims that America’s founders …

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A Hard-Hitting Ad Appears in Whitefish

Here’s an ad from today’s Flathead Beacon, paid for by a community group called the North Valley PAC, exposing some alarming and deeply disturbing aspects of a right-wing candidate named Derek Skees whom I’ve written about before.

Skees …

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The Man That Must Defeat One of This Cycle’s Most Fringe Candidates

TEA Party Republican, or as he calls himself “RINO-tarian” Derek Skees is out passing out pamphlets on the 5000 Year Leap, promoting conspiracy theories, and other craziness. Main Street Democrat Will Hammerquist is focusing on the things the …

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Incredible

It was reported in the Whitefish Pilot Police Blotter on September 11, 2010, that a Whitefish woman was scared and disturbed enough to call the police after a political campaigner came to her door to pass out lit for …

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Derek Skees Personifies the Problems with the GOP-Tea Party Alliance

There is an interesting article in the Flathead Beacon about Tea Party infighting which is definitely worth reading. It starts out with the viewpoint that the GOP and Tea Party aren’t the same, but in my opinion the article doesn’t offer …

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Skees’ Wife Sends Pink Four-Page Letter to Voters

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 …

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