Posted: June 29, 2011 at 7:00 am
Dennis Rehberg Screws Up Again, Not as ‘Cash Poor’ as First Reported
Remember this story about Dennis Rehberg and his claim that the ranch he inherited then subdivided is somehow worth millions less than last year? As it turns out, Rehberg is not quite as ‘cash poor’ as he first claimed.
Late last week, after the story went away, the millionaire congressman formally corrected his finance report upping the value of one of his assets — Rehberg Ranch Land & Livestock — from the $500,000-$1 million range to the $1 million-$5 million range. Read his amendment to his finance report for yourself—it’s online here.
Don’t blow this off as some minor mistake (as Rehberg’s office will surely try to do). Now matter how he spins it, the fact is Dennis Rehberg’s original accounting was off by up to $4.5 million dollars.
As desperately as he wants to be a workaday Montanan like, well, Jon Tester, Dennis Rehberg just isn’t as “cash poor” and “struggling like everyone else” as he wants us to believe. He’s trying to hide his wealth so he won’t have to run as one of the richest Congressmen in America.
Dennis Rehberg’s inability to accurately fill out a financial “disclosure” comes on the heels of his last effort to make headlines, when he wrote an amendment that was so bad (allowing tobacco companies to market cigarettes to children), his own party was forced to pull it.
And this guy wants to be a senator?
Correction. It’s NOT an “inability to fill out a financial form correctly”, rather an inability to tell the truth! THAT is what being a Teatard is all about. Dopey can kinda/sorta lie with a straight face, but he’s easy to see right through. Dopey’s simply a liar. Poor eric iverscum better never stand behind Dopey during the campaign, ’cause it looks like Dopey’s gonna spend most of his time whizzin’ backwards!
But seriously, do we REALLY want a moron that is THIS incompetent determining our COUNTRY’S budget? I think not. Let me put it in Teatard terms. Would you take your FAMILY’S budget to an idiot like Dopey for help? Oh HELL no! That AIN’T a family value!
True statement. One could also have said “he was off by as little as a penny.” As it is your blog, spin it how how you want.
HERE ya go, Cowboy. Dopey Reeburp’s FOUR MILLION DOLLAR “forest”! As you can see from the photo, poor Widdle Dopey Reeburp lost the ENTIRE DOPEY REEBURP NATIONAL FOREST! Which is really sad, ’cause Dopey was gonna start the Reeburp Tootpick Factory with all them trees! What a joke!
The pic.
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/billingsgazette.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/0/75/e34/075e343b-e92a-5826-8e8d-26afeb78f23a.image.jpg
My GOD I’ve never seen such a “natural disaster”! I mean, just LOOK at that sage burn! How many homeless gophers did Dopey have to care for? No WONDER Dopey wants some gubmint money! He has declared for himself a natural disaster! Hence, the lawsuit!
I’m thinkin’ ol’ Great Grandpa Rehberg, the tough old cowboy who SETTLED that land, is probably wishin’ he could come back down there for a hour or so and KICK Dopey’s dumb ass for being such a slimey wussy and besmirching the Rehberg name! I’ll bet he had a low tolerance for horse thieves and gubmint thieves!
MTCowboy, you seem to have intimate knowledge of the facts here. can you tell us why Rehberg is trying to hide his wealth? Is it for purposes of his campaign, or to use in court to suck the taxpayers of Billings dry over his firefighter lawsuit?
You seem to be confusing me with someone else. I know no more (and likely less) than you.
Nice try on the “have you quit beating your wife” line of questioning. Presenting two negative options, hoping for an answer, does not make either option true.
OMG Did you guys see this? http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_a0e011bf-2da8-55d7-93fa-4bfd97cec614.html?mode=story
Sorry for the off-topic Cowgirl but I didn’t want anyone to miss this. Talk about humiliating.
Poor lil’ rickie. He burned too many bridges, and now, the only bridge left for him is the bridge to nowhere! He can try to go all Area 51 on us, but reports of them UFMs (unidentified flying mermaids!) are seen all OVER the place! “Oh look, there’s another one! What is it? It looks like another Unidentified Flying Mermaid! Is it? And there’s lil’ rickie, right behind it!”
So, even though lil’ rickie wants to keep his affairs top secret, it’s OUT there! You AIN’T a’gonna put the mermaid back in the tank after she’s been OUT so to speak. Nope, ricky got frisky with a fishy, and outted himself as a dude who’s out of values.
Look, lil’ rickie raised scumbaggery to an ART form fercryin’outloud! The dude’s GOOD! I mean, how many dudes YOU know can score with a mermaid, kick his wife outta the bar, and STILL claim to be a family values candidate?! That’s world CLASS scumbaggery!
All the Dems need to do is find lil’ rickie’s ex, and make one good commercial! That’s what I’d do! Rickie’s ex saying if you elect this scumbag, you’re NUTS! He’s a scumbag!
p.s. Well, one thing you CAN say bout lil’ rickie is that he ain’t about to break the law! NATURAL law that is! He’s a law abidin’ dude! He’s just doin’ what comes naturally! Yikes!
http://crooksandliars.com/andy-cobb/natural-love-and-new-york
Denny does not Like Disclosing things like campaign donations either
http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/house/2/391
Well he is republican, and they hate disclosing campaign donations.
OH COME ON! Why are we not reading about this in the real news. No offense to this excellent blog, but this is much bigger than blog material. The people of this state deserve to know what our congressman is doing.
The GF Spitoon attritubed Dopey Reeburp’s tragic 4.5 million dollar loss to the “natural disaster” on his property……BWHAAHAHAAA! But HEY, I’m good with that! Any of you smart dudes out there who are number crunchers, just TRY to figure out how many board feet of scrub pine and sage it would take to value FOUR POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARs! I’m thinkin’ ’bout enough to fill up the Berkley Pit!
And THAT doesn’t even count emotional loss! You see, now Dopey can sue for emotional damage too now that everyone is calling him an a**hole for suing the fire dept! Thas gotta be worth SUMthin’ in a court of law! I feel his pain. People have called me an a**hole most of my life. I’M RIGHT THERE WITH YA, DOPEY! You go, Brave Cowboy!
This I gotta’ see. He could not have really written that. Do you have a link?
I’ll try to find it. It was a reporter’s story, not a quote from Reeburp. But yes, it did INDEED mention the factors that deflowered Dopey’s land as one being “natural disasters”. I too thought it was funny as hell to list that.
OK, here it is. I guess it was a Dopey spokeman named Jed Link who is quoted in the article. I never heard of the guy, but yes, poor Dopey seems to feel that a “natural disaster” befell him! Poor little fella.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011106240327
But you see, timber is ONLY worth stump value! I have a buddy who owns a section of land up on the Smith River. His neighbor is a notorious rightwing Pubbie who used to go a little wild with his logging operations. Seems he didn’t quite know where his land ended and the neighbor’s began. Hence, he had a nasty habit of cutting timber that wasn’t his. The ONLY remedy for the neighbor was the stump value. True story. Dopey’s trees are worth stump value only. And on scrubby pine, that ain’t much! THAT is why I would like a math guy to figure out just HOW much scrub pine is worth 4.5 million dollars. I’m thinkin’ it would be one HELLUVA lot, a wee bit more than Dopey Reeburp’s 1200 acres burned. Dopey is tryin’ to pull a fast one here. And yes, the newspapers are complicit.
Here, try this experiment. Cut down your neighbor’s tree. And when you go to court, see how much the judge assesses you for a new one. Not much I can tell you, for I’ve seen this happen too. A sapling don’t COST 4.5 million! (only in Dopey world!)
I have to say, it only makes one madder that he’s trying to hide truth that he is one of the wealthiest members of congress. I mean show some integrity and be honest. Or how about if you don’t want to run as a richie rich, give that money to charity to help the poor that are being harmed by your policies.
He’s worse, the rethugs are trying to crash the Economy AGAIN
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/14/158424/republican-leaders-debt-limit-hypocrisy/
Natural disaster, hmmm. Perhaps a radioactive meteor hit the property and destroyed everything. It probably happened at night so no one saw it.