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By Cowgirl, on September 3, 2010, 11:08 am |
 Then you haven’t met Tim Ravndal, the leader of the Big Sky Tea Party. Here is a horrific exchange between Ravndal and a few of his colleagues, which took place on Ravndal’s Facebook page. Transcript courtesy of D Gregory Smith at the excellent blog From Eternity to Here:
Tim Ravndal: “Marriage is between a man and a woman period! By giving rights to those otherwise would be a violation of the constitution and my own rights”
Kieth Scranton: “How dare you exercise your First Amendment Rights?”
Dennis Scranton: “I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they can be seen and appreciated. Call Wyoming for display instructions.”
Tim Ravndal: “@Kieth, OOPS I forgot this aint[sic] America no more! @ Dennis, Where can I get that Wyomingprinted instruction manual?”
Dennis Scranton: Should be able to get info Gazette archives. Maybe even an illustration. Go back a bit over ten years.”
Smith also has the screenshot.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the references, Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyoming, in October 1998 because he was gay. Shepard’s murder brought national and international attention to the issue of hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels.
Tim Ravndal is also the individual who is helping Kristi Allen-Gailushas with her crusade against nutrition, health, and the prevention of bullying.
By Cowgirl, on September 2, 2010, 12:11 pm |
 Republican mouthbreather and candidate for state senate Jason Priest for claiming on his campaign website that:
“Montanans of every political viewpoint wish for less divisive politics. While I have principled views on the proper scope of government, I‘ll contribute to a respectful discussion of our challenges. “
…then contradicting himself on his own Facebook page by posting that
when Republicans lie down with Democrats, Americans get fleas.
and this screenshot of his most offensive post, displaying exactly how this fool’s base mind works, we bestow upon state senate candidate Jason Priest the Montana Cowgirl Blog’s GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award. Many happy returns.
You guys must really be proud of this one.
This is not the conduct of someone that would be a Montana State Senator. Aaron Kampfe needs our support to defeat this individual.
By Cowgirl, on August 31, 2010, 8:34 pm |
Even though they love trillion-dollar wars, abolishing all income taxes and the IRS is a favorite mission of the inbred mountain-men and militia-types who seem to constitute about 80% of the Republican party nowadays. There is a central and long-held belief among Republicans, most likely held by Bowen Greenwood and Will Deschamps as well, that the federal income tax is unconstitutional, because supposedly it was not properly ratified by one of the state legislatures back a century ago when it was amended to the Constitution.
Kudos to Schweitzer and the Democrats for cracking down on out of state tax cheats. The Administration announced this week that there is cash to be gotten from national travel companies that have been booking rooms without paying the 7% hotel tax. Needless to say, Republicans have never supported the Democrats on any efforts to collect taxes from deadbeat corporations who don’t pay what they owe. In fact, the Rs have often tried to put up road blocks to the Revenue Department’s efforts to collect taxes that are due. During several legislative sessions when Democrats and the Adminsitration tried to get important legislation passed to help them in this effort ( like this bill, in 2007), Republicans, lead by visionary statesmen such as Scott Sales, Mike Lange and John Sinrud, did everything they could to kill it. It’s really bizarre in fact, that Republicans are so averse to any taxes at all that they believe a person should simply nullify the law by disregarding it. Or, the Rs simply go out of their way to take all the teeth out of the enforcement powers of the MT Department of Revenue.
Funny, because Republicans like Hannity, Beck and company, and no doubt their numerous brown-shirt followers in Montana, delighted in uttering the refrain “Democrats like raising taxes, they just don’t like paying them” during Obama’s transition when it was shown that a few of Obama’s cabinet nominees owed back taxes. Unfortunately, in Montana there can now be uttered a similar slogan: “Republicans believe in cutting taxes, by allowing people to break the law and not pay them.”
By Cowgirl, on August 31, 2010, 9:11 am |
It’s hard to get information about judicial races, especially on the district judge level, but folks around the state will be interested in the race for Judicial District one, which covers Lewis and Clark and Broadwater counties, because this is…
. . . → Read More: Why you should care about the Helena District Court judge race
By Cowgirl, on August 30, 2010, 6:02 pm |
A reader contacted me not long ago to rehash an old argument that will likely be rekindled this fall. A vegetarian, this reader was offended that Roy Brown, when confronted in 2008 with a rumor that he was vegetarian, angrily
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By Cowgirl, on August 28, 2010, 6:12 pm |
Derek Skees says he is God’s puppet, problem is, he’s supposed to be listening to the voters of his district, not just the voices in his head. In the comments to a recent article in the…
. . . → Read More: Skees is no one’s puppet…unless God is pulling the strings
By Cowgirl, on August 28, 2010, 10:15 am |
 This week’s bad idea comes from Jerry O’Neil, who wants to repeal Montanans’ constitutional right to elect our U.S. Senators, and give that choice to the Montana legislature. He’s tried this twice before, most recently when he served in…
. . . → Read More: Jerry O’Neil wants to repeal constitutional right to elect U.S. Senators
By Cowgirl, on August 27, 2010, 3:56 pm |
In case you haven’t been following the doings of the Sanders County Republican Central Committee, folks there have been in a flurry after it came to light on this blog that, the minutes revealed party infighting, scripture reading and,…
. . . → Read More: Sanders County Republicans sure know how to handle a crisis
By Cowgirl, on August 27, 2010, 12:37 pm |
Pam Ellis, who is running for the House District 47 seat in the Billings heights against one of the weirdest candidates in Montana, has a sharp new website, just launched. What I like so much about it, besides…
. . . → Read More: Meet Pam Ellis, the woman who must defeat Tea Party oddball James Knox
By Cowgirl, on August 27, 2010, 12:15 pm |
I don’t know what Helena IR ‘policy’ might be out there this time, but today’s paper came and went without a single mention of the one-year anniversary of the Rehberg boat wreck.
No update on the legal and criminal trials…
. . . → Read More: The IR isn’t off the hook yet
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Then you haven’t met Tim Ravndal, the leader of the Big Sky Tea Party. Here is a horrific exchange between Ravndal and a few of his colleagues, which took place on Ravndal’s Facebook page. Transcript courtesy of D Gregory Smith at the excellent blog From Eternity to Here:
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