Montana GOP

The Montana GOP Just Ran Over Credibility

May 16, 2011

Let’s be honest. The Montana GOP is such an amateurish organization that it actually chose budding juvenile fiction auteur and anti-voting activist Will Deschamps as its chair, has a web page that was banned by Geocities for being too ugly for the web in 1997, and uses a series of short-lived astroturf blogs to regurgitate [...]

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More Respect for the Voter from the Montana GOP: Will Deschamps

April 10, 2011

When he’s not posting inflammatory lies on Twitter personally attacking Missoula’s legislative delegation, it seems that Will Deschamps, chairman of the Montana Republican Party, is spending his time writing entirely unhinged letters to the editor. His last missive, published on Friday in the Missoulian, truly has to be read in its entirety to be appreciated, [...]

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Dear Media, Stop Picking on the Republicans

February 24, 2011

Just an absolutely amazing story in the Havre Daily News today, in which local legislators complain about unfair media attention regarding their “work” in the session thus far. Representative Hansen offered this heartfelt complaint: Rep. Kris Hansen said the media has been focusing on issues that are controversial, while ignoring other issues the Legislature is [...]

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Helena IR Publishes the Truth in Response to Will Deschamps, But Why Run the Original?

January 30, 2011

Dave McLean, commander of the Anaconda American Legion Post 21, responded to one of the lies in GOP Chair Wil Deschamps’ recent hit piece about Max Baucus and health care reform today in the Independent Record. The particular lie that McLean debunks is the idea that veterans will see increased taxes on their healthcare costs: [...]

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Your Republican Party: Nominees for Office of Political Practices

December 14, 2010

The Republican Party of Montana has once again shown its contempt for the political process in Montana, nominating two candidates who exemplify the party’s attitude about law and order for the next Commissioner of Political Practices. Scott Sales, Republican from Bozeman, nominated Brad Johnson, less than a year after his arrest for a serious drunk [...]

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The Montana Democrats Offer a Lame Response to GOP Hate

July 17, 2010

As you have probably read (though precious little in Montana’s dailies, it appears), the Montana GOP wants to overturn the Supreme Court and turn back the clock a generation to outlaw “homosexual acts.” Weeks later, and not even on their front page that features critical items like a story about small business workshop, the Montana [...]

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Sex Ed, the GOP’s Hateful Platform, and Me: It’s About Growing Up

July 12, 2010

There are parts of my childhood and adolescence I sometimes wish I could forget, moments that are embarrassing not so much for what I did, but for how little I knew, and how that lack of knowledge made me act. I grew up in small, relatively conservative towns in a time before there was much [...]

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Sleazy Conservative Mailers Mystery!

June 2, 2010

It’s certainly a challenge to speculate about who might be behind the latest sleazy and anonymous mailers being sent out attacking Republican legislative candidates for being insufficiently conservative: Commissioner of Political Practices Dennis Unsworth said the groups appear to be breaking Montana campaign laws by failing to register with his office or disclose how they’re [...]

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