Posted: October 13, 2011 at 6:40 pm

Today’s Must Read Political Blog Post

A great new outdoors blog is generating some buzz in Montana, and I’ve added it to the blogroll here.  Brought to you by Hellgate Hunters and Anglers based in Missoula,  “Montana’s Bully Pulpit” features some political analysis from Montana that you’ll want to read regularly.

In case you missed their take on the Montana Republican Party’s renewed obsession with spear hunting, check out their analysis of one of Rehberg’s latest policy flops, Montana Land Sovereignty Act: A really old, and really bad idea, which is today’s must read political blog post.

14 comments

  1. Matthew Koehler

    FYI: See bottom of this post from Aaron Murphy, Tester’s communication’s director

    From: Aaron Murphy
    Sent: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 02:32:58 GMT+00:00
    Subject: Convenient truths

    All– Bringing you all to speed on a conveniently timed request from Jon Tester’s opponent, Congressman Dennis Rehberg, and to share a few stories that have made headlines for the Congressman over the past few days:

    TODAY: Congressman Rehberg asked the bipartisan “supercommittee” to open its activity to the public. You can read his press release HERE. Jon fully agrees in the need for transparency in Congress, which is why he became the first member to post his daily public schedule online. What we find interesting is Congressman Rehberg’s interest in transparency now, conveniently after writing his controversial Labor, Health and Human Services and Appropriations proposal in secret, late, and only after canceling two committee hearings without explanation. Speaking of transparency…

    ON MONDAY: Congressman Rehberg watched as a tracker working for the Montana Democratic Party was excused by a uniformed county sheriff from Rehberg’s “public” listening session in Jordan, Montana (story HERE). The tracker was doing nothing wrong. And conveniently after the fact, Congressman Rehberg claimed he had no idea what was happening as the Sheriff told the tracker to “pack up”… in Rehberg’s presence. And…

    LAST WEEK: The Associated Press asked why Congressman hasn’t held any public listening sessions in months (worth a read HERE). Conveniently after being questioned by the Associated Press, Congressman Rehberg scheduled two listening sessions, one of which was off-limits to trackers. What does that say about transparency? Yeah, we think so too…

    Until next time, cheers,

    Aaron Murphy
    Montanans for Tester

    Oh… and a brand new outdoors blog is making the rounds in Montana, brought to you by Hellgate Hunters and Anglers based in Missoula. “Montana’s Bully Pulpit” features some political analysis from Montana that you may find interesting in the coming months.

  3. Dave Skinner

    Nothing new, just another iteration.
    Hellgate H and A are just a spin-off of the “roadless initiative” and the big green push to keep the LWCF jackpot flowing. Anything with “hunters and anglers” in it is a direct result of Pew’s analysis of their failures with Clinton Roadless Round One. They failed to capture the imagination of sportspeople, so decided to front an astroturf campaign to chisel off a chunk of the hook-and-bullet crowd.
    Might want to see how much money Fenton and Resource Media are spending on this smokescreen.

  4. Butte Gal

    Great blog! What’s with the conspiracy theorist? This sounds like a story everybody knows but me.

    • Larry Kralj, Environmental Rangers

      That’s just Skinnerflute drowning in his own irrelevancy. It’s kinda a cry for help. “Won’t someone PUHLEESE take me seriously”?! You see, he wouldn’t make a PPP, pimple on Posewitz’s posterior! Ignore it. It’ll go away eventually.

      • Trust No One

        I find Dave Skinner to be clueless to a lot of things he writes about in the Beacon. Saw him get backed in a corner with facts and logic by a well informed ‘good ol country boy’ at a County Commissioners meeting in the Flathead a few weeks ago. He brought a stick to a gunfight.

    • Dave Skinner

      Gal,
      It’s not a conspiracy, just a political ploy. Started with the ten million bucks Pew dumped into the game via Audubon back in 1999 or so, then there was the OWAA attacks on NRA et cetera ad nauseam.
      If this is such a great new blog, then why did it take so long to get noticed, and only after prompting from Aaron M, and pretty much by the usual insiders only?
      I mean, the ploy of abusing Teddy Roosevelt as a convenient “Republican” is just asinine. He was the first RINO, and in fact introduced “progressivism” into the public sphere — all of which was an accident of fate.
      HHA and all the others are turning TR into a single-dimensioned caricature, kind of like how Aldo Leopold has only one facet. Both were complex people, and both are no longer around to explain themselves.

      • Butte Gal

        Apologies! I didn’t mean you, I mean Mr. Koehler. So sorry! As to the bully pulpit, I first read them when I read their post about Rep. Hansen’s spear hunting op-ed that an earlier post referenced.

  5. Publius II

    God Bless Teddy Roosevelt, Commander-In-Chief, WILDERNESS Warrior who fought to keep from commercializing our National Park treasures, not bad for a Medal of Honor recipient and combat leader, champion of TRUST BUSTING and progressive efforts, and that’s what
    the GOP really needs, some BALANCE restored, not all TEA BAGGED. By the way, I was weaned a Republican, annointed when I was a Boy Scout at many GOP picnics, but the way the Party of Lincoln and Roosevelt has gone, where’s the sanity, balance and compassion? Now the Tea Party has there own Death Panels, dismantle medicare, medicaid, the safety net that ironically the VAST majority of Tea Party enthusiasts depend on, and they’re certainly not in the 1% category of wealth!

  7. Matthew Koehler

    FYI: Just so everyone knows, the Montana Bully Pulpit blog is censoring substantive, context filled comments if those comments don’t fit their views or their politics. That’s so very Bully of them.