Posted: August 7, 2012 at 5:22 pm

UPDATED: Political Quick Hits

Young Man Admits Filing False Missoula Beating Report

The Missoula Independent is now reporting that a “Missoula gay bashing may not have happened.”  Read the story here.   Sounds like there are still some facts that need to be verified.  Hope that happens soon. UPDATE: D. Gregory Smith at From Eternity to Here has a good take on this incident.

 

Where’s Daines?

Thanks to the recent ad blitz, we know Montana’s current Congressman Rep. Rehberg supports President Bush’s millionaire tax breaks, which resulted in the worst presidential jobs record in recorded history. We know that he voted again to renew the cuts for the richest 2%–to give millionaires another $150,000 check they don’t even need. What we don’t know is what Steve Daines thinks.

If he wants this office, he needs to say where he stands.

Dems are the Party of Fiscal Responsibility

Montana’s Governor Brian Schweitzer has an op-ed in the Huffington Post today about how Montana is one of the only states in America with a budget surplus.  Schweitzer notes that this year that surplus is $453 million, while under the Republican administrations of the eighteen years previous, the surpluses averaged $54 million.

 

10 comments

  1. Paul

    Well, according to the Indie “UPDATE: Joseph Baken pleaded guilty this afternoon in Missoula Municipal Court to charges of filing a false police report. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and a $300 fine. The jail time was suspended.” So that, is that.