The Billboard Bump?

30 January 2012

Credit should be given where credit is due: well done, Mr. O’Hara, Republican candidate for Governor.  This morning the Great Falls Tribune featured a fairly long piece on Mr. O’Hara’s decade long strategy to win the Republican nomination for Governor. Mr. O’Hara, of Fort Benton, has one strategy to win this year: paint and erect [...]

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Think Locally, Falter Globally

30 January 2012

Looking over differ House candidates’ positions on the ‘issues’ of the day, something is noticeably absent – only Franke Wilmer and Melinda Gopher say anything about foreign policy. I’m not saying that makes Daines, Gillan, Strohmaier, etc. bad candidates. It means we as voters have fallen down on the job We should be demanding that [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup 29 January 2012

29 January 2012

Highlighting some of the most interesting and provocative posts in the past week at Montana blogs. D Gregory Smith discussed why Senator Tester seems to be so much harder working than Representative Rehberg. Montanafesto authored a heartfelt farewell to Jeff Essman’s unlamented, unfunded campaign for governor. Montana Cowgirl offered eight reasons Montana voters should follow [...]

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Fox to Enter Race for Attorney General

28 January 2012

It’s pretty difficult to go anywhere in Helena without running into a lobbyist or politico of some sort—in fact, usually groups of them, as they tend to travel in packs. The one thing I keep hearing from them is that it’s all but certain that Tim Fox will be announcing another bid for Attorney General [...]

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About Those Republicans and the Office of Political Practices

27 January 2012

When I suggested in an earlier post that Republicans bore some of the blame for the mess at the Office of Political Practices, it was suggested that I was trying to unfairly politicize the situation. It turns out I was being too fair to the Republicans, as the Associated Press points out today. It seems [...]

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Gopher attacks Gillan, brings positive attention to competition

27 January 2012

As stated in a previous post, Melinda Gopher is sure to be the most outspoken critic of her competition for the Democratic Party’s nomination.  And it already looks like things are shaping up that way.  From Gopher’s Facebook page: The post Gopher is referencing is a pretty heavy-handed attack on Kim Gillan, but there is [...]

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Brad Johnson’s Campaign Releases Impressive Photo

26 January 2012

While I’m just a humble classroom teacher and not a campaign strategist, I feel confident saying that posting this photograph might not have been the best public relations strategy for whatever office Brad Johnson is planning to lose the race for this year. In case you can’t read it, the caption reads Successful DC fundraiser [...]

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Rehberg Cashes in from Citizens United—Directly

26 January 2012

Not only is Representative Rehberg championing the right of corporations to pollute Montana politics, he’s benefiting financially from those who were responsible for the Supreme Court decision to allow limitless, secret corporate contributions to campaigns: In a news release, Tester’s campaign will point out that Rehberg accepted a $10,000 donation from the conservative group Citizens [...]

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Photographer to document oil development on Blackfeet Reservation

26 January 2012

There is a growing debate in Montana and it revolves completely around “development.”  With something like 70% of Montanans being “pro-development,” strick, no-development-anywhere conservationists have a lot of minds to change.  But this post isn’t about that.  This post is about a very interesting project a man named Tony Bynum has begun.  From the Great [...]

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Rehberg Believes Corporations Are People Too

25 January 2012

Senator Tester and Senator Baucus are standing up for Montana’s law and the relatively obvious idea that free speech rights attach to people, not multinational corporations, reports KXLH’s Marnee Banks. Representative Rehberg, on the other hand, likes the idea of massive corporate polluting the electoral process: Congressman Denny Rehberg won’t support the amendment. He says [...]

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Gopher takes the gloves off

25 January 2012

Wow!  Melinda Gopher, who recently entered the race for congress, is going after her competition in the Democratic primary: Gopher tends to spend a lot of her time attacking other members of her own party instead of a GOP that is focused on tearing down every institution and ideal Democrats hold dear.  In fact, she [...]

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Gopher in, Rankin possible

24 January 2012

As already reported here, Melinda Gopher is in it to win it.  According to the Missoulian, Gopher said she would work to dismantle the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that equates money as free speech and allows corporations to give to political campaigns without previous restrictions. She said she will work to strengthen environmental [...]

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