Don Pogreba

Steve Daines Still Doesn’t Know What Office He’s Running For

May 9, 2012

Steve Daines has certainly struggled with a rather fundamental question about his campaign in the past year. He just can’t seem to figure out what office he’s running for. Today, he sent out a rather desperate sounding fundraising letter asking potential contributors to donate so that he can create a “campaign blitz” that will “feature [...]

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The Livingstone/Zinke Comedy Tour Continues

May 9, 2012

The Associated Press reports that SUPERCANDIDATE Neil Livingstone plans to…keep Montana’s economy growing, just like it has under Governor Schweitzer: Republican candidate for governor Neil Livingstone is promising that, if elected, he won’t take a salary until the state gets 1,000 new jobs — a figure that could be reached in just two months if [...]

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Rick Hill Blames Rick Hill for Economic Uncertainty in Montana

May 7, 2012

Rick Hill told the Helena Vigilante that one of the problems for Montana businesses is the workers’ compensation system: He also blames Montana’s convoluted and expensive worker’s compensation system, our costly automotive insurance, and our employment law. “We are not in the mainstream … and that makes it much more expensive to do business in [...]

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Montana Politics Winners and Losers of the Week, May 7

May 7, 2012

Loser: Equality Under the Law While I will certainly be voting for Steve Bullock in the general election given that his opponent belongs to a party that wants to criminalize same sex relationships, it was certainly disappointing to see Mr. Bullock stand against marriage equality this week. It’s probably a politically advantageous position, but it’s [...]

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Champ Edmunds: A Special Kind of A#$*&!@

May 6, 2012

It takes a special kind of asshole to politicize rape, but if we’ve learned anything about him in the past couple of years, it’s that “Champ” Edmunds is indeed special. After all, he opposed memorializing a slain Montana Highway Patrol officer and argued that students at the University of Montana could not be trusted to [...]

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One of These Paragraphs Is Not Like the Other; Bob Fanning Offers a “Realistic Plan”

May 6, 2012

I loved the Great Falls Tribune profile of gubernatorial candidates Bob Fanning in its entirety, but these two paragraphs were clearly the best: "I am the only candidate who has a realistic, workable plan which will lead Montana to rapid economic progress and independence from the federal funds which have put Montana out of business." [...]

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Who Watches the Watchdog?

May 4, 2012

When the Montana Watchdog came on the scene in the past year or so, it seemed like a relatively harmless, right-wing “news” organization which covered the news from a clearly defined conservatively biased viewpoint. For the most part, its writing was honest (if selective in its focus) and it even broke some interesting stories. That [...]

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Bullock, Hill Tied; Other Republican Candidates Entirely Unknown

May 3, 2012

PPP just published a Montana poll which shows Steve Bullock and Rick Hill tied in a November matchup at 39-39. Despite the tie, Bullock is both better liked and known that Representative Hill: Bullock is more popular than Hill. 34% of voters have a positive opinion of him to 21% with a negative one. Hill’s [...]

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