New Rehberg Scandal: Public land is my ‘Privately owned land’

Here’s a new video making the rounds of yet another controversy involving TEA Party Congressman Dennis Rehberg, who is worth millions and owns vast swaths of land, developments, and other investments.

For the past few weeks, hunters and public access …

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Does the GOP Have the Right Idea?

Congressional candidate Steve Daines was given a clear field by the GOP powerbrokers. No challenge.  As a result, he’s been able to amass $600,000 in contributions.

The Democratic primary, by contrast, is a four-person race: Franke Wilmer, Kim Gillan, Rob …

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Anti-Gay Republicans Caught Polishing Their Moral Compasses

The shoe dropped this week for two Republican legislators who built their careers advancing anti-gay bigotry and depriving citizens of basic rights.

A married anti-gay Republican state legislator from Indiana was caught paying a male teen $80 to meet up

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TEA Party Jobs Plan Bound to Succeed

Montana college students returned to school today.  It’s the first new school year since the TEA Party Republican takeover, and the  job creation strategies promoted by TEA Party Congressman Rehberg and enthusiastically carried out by the TEA Party Republican Legislature …

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Some Exciting Facts about Montana Cowgirl Blog

There’s been discussion here and elsewhere, lately, about blog traffic in Montana.

My loyal readers (except Skees and Deschamps, perhaps) will be happy to know that Montana Cowgirl is the most widely read blog in Montana, with almost half a …

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Better Informed

A Whitefish man is making news in the Flathead this week for standing up to tell it like it is, using social media to expose the underside of local and legislative politics.  Whitefish businessman Ed McGrew, founder of Informed Whitefish, is …

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GOP Unpopularity Reaches Naked Judy Martz Levels

Just 22% approve of the job performance of Republican congressional leaders according to a new Pew Research Center poll, down from 33% two weeks ago.  Those are some low numbers.  Low enough to be comparable to the extremely unpopular Judy …

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Montana’s Biggest Phony

Please, Congressman Rehberg is the GOP Hypocrite of the decade.Montana TEA Party Congressman Dennis Rehberg has been caught again pretending to care about projects in Montana that he votes against when he gets back to Washington.

Rehberg said this week in the Montana Standard that he visits community health …

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Koch Brothers Might Want A Refund

Not a good week for right-wing attempts to grow corporate-backed astroturf in Montana.

Some unstable right-wing characters, including Henry Kriegel (a senior Church Universal Triumphant loon who recently became head of the Bozeman Tea Party), had a big Tea rally …

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Is Rick Hill A Muslim?

I’ve received several e-mails from people who were listening to the radio program Voices of Montana yesterday (Thurs, August 18)  about a comment made by GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill who was the featured guest.

When asked by a caller …

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Yes It Can (And It Does, in Montana)

There is an interesting op-ed in the NY Times today by Montana’s governor Brian Schweitzer, talking about Montana’s unique position as one of the only governments in America with a large surplus, six years in a row. Says any government …

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Legislator Pens Hilarious Rebuttal Letter

An angry TEA Party state legislator has taken issue with a letter to the editor which criticizes him and lashed out in response with a hilarious rebuttal:  “Derek Skees presentation: Letter riddled with errors.”

The letter writer, in “Skees provided

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Happy 19th Amendment Ratification Day

Though we celebrate Women’s Suffrage Day on August 26th, August 18th is actually the date that the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920. It’s a great day to celebrate the value of this amendment to the lives …

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