Posted: October 22, 2011 at 12:08 pm
ANOTHER UPDATE: TEA Party Faction Who Promoted Violence Against Gays Seeks Helena City Office
A leader of a group who was ousted from the Montana TEA Party over its comments advocating violence against gays is seeking election for a Helena city board.
Last fall, Tim Ravndal was kicked out of the Big Sky Tea Party for implying that gay people should be hung like Matthew Shepard. The story, after being featured here on the Montana Cowgirl Blog, made national news. Upset with the ousting, Helena resident Bobbette Madonna founded the Lewis & Clark Conservative Tea Party and Ravndall was put in charge. Bobbette Madonna stated that she was “extremely pleased” that Ravndall was elected as leader.
Now, Bobette Madonna is one of only two candidates running for four open seats in the Helena Citizen’s Council, an advisory board of the Helena City Commission. Unless Helenans elect three write-in candidates, Madonna will get to walk on to the council.
As of this post, there are two write-in candidates who have stepped up to the plate to run: Matthieu Oppedahl and Jessica Peterson. UPDATE: Kim Abbott has joined the slate of write-in candidates. UPDATE: Michael Hand has also joined the write in slate, Michael Hand lives in District 2.
Helena citizens would do better to elect a corndog to the Citizens Council than to let this woman on the board.
OWS vs. Teatard Reetards!
KEEP THE GUBMINT OUTTA MY MEDICAIRE! (so’s I can suck down my oxygen! provided by the hated gubmint! which i hate! ’cause we elected a BLACK dude! from AFFreeca no less! might as well elected a GAY dude! same difference!)
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2011/10/21/a-comparison-of-occupy-wall-street-and-the-tea-party/
Why didn’t any sane people have the foresight to get on the ballot?
Because it seems an awful lot like self-mutilation.
Someone needs to step forward in Helena as a DEM and give these nutcases a run for their money! WHY are we letting such an important city grow such bigotry????
The Citizen’s Council is pretty much a waste of time and money. Y’all should vote for Katherine H@#$%-H%*&@ for city commission, who has proposed disbanding it in order to save the taxpayers some money.
Lovely so we’ve got a bunch
ass hat liberals who ARE NOT
FROM HERE claiming to be cowgirls
spouting off about trivia.
Get a job (non govt related)
and create some prosperity would ya
Looser parasite democrats.
Looser??? Wow! Get some edyouKAYshun, Joe, then get back with us! Would ya? And for the record, what was you highest grade level achieved? Also, for the record, how do YOU “create prosperity”, Joe? You personally? Might lend some credibility to your argument, such as it is. Oh, BTW, where you from and how long have your ancestors been here? And one more thing, joe, just HOW MUCH gubmint money you sucked up in your lifetime? Lot’s I’m suspectin’.
Been here some forty years joe MUDD, so that makes it a life time for some of you backwoodsy, less intelligent folk who’s original families came from somewhere else too! Only the 13 tribes of native Americans in Montana are Native! the rest of us came from somewhere else! But do not let facts get in your way!
let us not muddy the water here, jozer…
i remember a republi-CON guvner whose first public act in the interest of montanans was to “upgrade” the limo, the private plane and redecorate the mansion and his office.
to get a little higher on the toto pole…
how ’bout that texass monkey boy giving BILLIONS in tax breaks to his rich rich palzies, BILLIONS to the PHARM program, BILLIONS to CONtractors on bogus wars, BILLIONS to banks…
AND he crashed the market the first year in office…
oh, yeah…
and again as a going away present.
i will not defend equal behavior from themo-craps…
but you need to stop sleeping while the republiCONS PARA-SITE.
settle down loosers, born in GF in 56.
Hey looks like our looser halfbreed prez
just gave Libya a sharia overlord now thats leadership. 4 Trillion in 3 years
and everything he touches turns to shit,
quite the Middas he is.
Middas?? Wow, Joeke. Eighth grade? ‘Bout when you dropped out, right? Joeke, ever heard of spelling and punctuation, dude? It’s all the latest rage among us “loosers” now days. But seriously, Joeke, in SPITE of your glaringly obvious deficiencies, I just GOTTA know what a man of your “intellect” (tee hee) actually DOES to “create prosperity”! What is it, Joeke? Tell us. What could you POSSIBLY be capable of to create prosperity? Are you a brain surgeon? How much prosperity you create today, Joeke? Was it a lot? Lot’s of prosperity?
You’re a funny dude, Joeke.
p.s. Joeke, it’s Midas! You’re intelligence is showing.
p.s.s. Say sumthin’ real smart, Joeke. Sorry, but “halfbreed” is simply ignorant and racist. Are you an ignorant racist, Joeke? Or are you capable of saying something that isn’t stupid? It’s up to you now, dude. Impress with your intellect, NOT your witlessness.
This forum is peopled with folks who possess advanced degress and high intelligence. What do YOU possess, Joeke? I’m thinkin’ that you’re a wee bit out of your league here.
Yeah Larry I’m racist all right back when I had a company 3 yrs ago my lead man was hispanic but thanks to Democrat leadership
that business is toast and so are the jobs of the other 4 men I used to employ and no I’ve never taken a dime of Government $ EVER. Say why aren’t you squatting for communism somewhere occupying something?
Sorry, Joe, but that ain’t an answer. One more time. For the record, Joe. Just WHAT was your business that employed four people? HOW much prosperity did you create with your business? HOW did the democrats kill your business? And finally, just WHO utilized your services and how were they NOT related to the government?
You see, Joe, your words mean shit. We need some FACTS! Ever heard of them? Until you provide an argument with facts, your words are simply shit. It’s called debating, Joe. Hey, we want to believe you. But it’s hard to believe simply shit.
Hell, maybe you have a point, who knows? But we simply can’t know until we see sumthin’ from you.
BTW, halfbreed is a very racist term. Very offensive to people. Breed refers to animals, Joe. Was your Hispanic guy an animal? What breed are you?
You better hope that the revolution works
out for you Dems because next year we all vote again and paybacks as they say are a
bitch.
What revolution would that be, Joe? I sense anger. What are you angry about, Joe? Be specific. For you see, many people are angry and that’s OK. But before you start the paybacks, you’d better make sure that you’re angry at the right folks. That’s all.
Hey LLLaaaaaarrry real swift with the
personal attacks but if that’s the way you want to play go save the environment
butt ranger and my small business employed 5 excluding myself (that’s why I used the word “other”) but then being a minute fraction of what was once 70% of all jobs provided by small business you Democrats want an end to all that in favor of the BIG COMPANIES that control everything including
your Government like General Electric and Goldman-Sachs (because there so environmentally friendly) but back to small business, you know the ones that get regulated out of existence because they actually are a threat to the big guys and that regulation ALWAYS comes from the left ALWAYS. So you say your against the CORPORATIONS but you are in fact their useful idiots.
Sorry, Joe, but I think you’re still full of shit. No, that’s not a personal attack, my friend. By full of shit I simply mean that you lack any specific facts or credible examples or evidence. You’re still simply spouting. And no, that’s probably not the actual debate term, but it’s close enough. Good night. Goin’ to bed.
Obviously, Larry, if Democratic policies shut him down, then he ran a brothel.
Angry? What, me worry? Communist, socialist, Democrats in the streets across
the land pushing for the CHANGE that seeks to end our once great nation.
Yeah you and yours will face payback.
traitor.
Traitor? Sorry again, Joe. But I have betrayed nothing about America. Check out history some time. You just might learn something.
Joe,
No matter where you’re from or how much formal education you’ve received, you haven’t said a single intelligent thing in regards to the issue at hand. It’s fine if you’re still getting your kicks on hurling the tired insults of conservative America but you’re also a distraction from what could be a great discussion. Go torture a kitten instead.
I think that Joe’s hopin’ to star in the sequel to Joe Dirt called Joe Mudd, ’bout Joe Dirt’s slow cousin from Montana! Hey, Joe, I’ve got the latest issue of Auto Trader here for ya. You can have it after I’m done! If’n ya ever get outta that rightwing cesspool!
BAD NEWS, FOLKS! I just called the election office to officially register as a write-in candidate; there aren’t any official write-ins to vote for and the deadline for applying is way behind us… it appears that any votes for the above-mentioned will be discarded. I won’t personally stop you from writing me in but it seems that we’re a bit behind the plate for stopping Madonna from waltzing in. If anyone has better news, share it now!
This begs the question: what is the point to a write-in candidacy?
Matthieu…
Don’t give up, we can at least make the point that we don’t want her in office by writing in candidates anyhow! I think the best thing to do at this point is to make sure that people know what she is about, and who she affiliates herself with. Not to mention this can be a good standing point to get election laws changed!
I think we should still write-in others. After all, none of us is going to vote for Bobette Madonna anyway right?
Michael,
I agree that we need to focus on exposing her and trying to change the election laws. I’m surprised that write-ins have to follow deadlines–isn’t that more appropriate for “real” candidates? I’m perplexed, discouraged, and pissed… I just got a new ballot and wrote-in “corn dog”. Needless to say, I didn’t vote for BM.
Bobby,
Write-in who you want… as a matter of principle, it’ll be good food for thought for the officials!
As of now, the “official” way into the Citizen Council is by appointment… I’m gonna ask Bobbette to appoint me.
I already voted for Matthieu, Jessica and corndog, because I didn’t know Kim and Michael were in. : ( For my fourth choice I wrote in Pepsi, because that’s what I like to have with a corndog.
Bon Appetit! I will gladly serve corndogs and Pepsi at our first council if a miracle happens.
THIS JUST IN FROM THE ELECTIONS OFFICE!!
“I have researched the statutes and write-ins will be counted for any HCC district who doesn’t have four people who filed Petitions of Nomination. District 3 is the only one that has four candidates, therefore, write-ins will be counted in all the other districts. The write-ins will be counted for a specific district if the person whose name is written in lives in the district where the write-in occurs.”
LET THE SHOW BEGIN…
WOO HOO!