House District 4 “RINO-tarian” candidate Derek Skees, of Kalispell, has something else in common with Montana GOP darling Michael Steele (besides being “called by God“). Like Steele, Derek Skees is turning out to be the gift that keeps on giving. This time, the gift comes…
After the post below about self-proclaimed “RINO-tarian” Derek Skees, I received a fundraising email from a former Skees supporter in which Skees reveals his belief that he was “called by God” to elected office. Since Skees doesn’t say whether he got “the call” from a…
Derek Skees, the House District 4 legislative candidate from the Flathead Valley who was spotted wearing the confederate flag in the Memorial day parade, had to come up with a new word in hopes of conveying how far to the right he really is (as if…
Unless you have been out in the backcountry for the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard by now that the Montana GOP is once again making Montana somewhat of a laughing stock because they have kept hold of their 1850s belief that it should…
Now this is the kind of smart campaign tactics I’m talking about. Watch as Rehberg gets asked to explain why he sued the Billings firefighters for doing their job. Rehberg is all over the place: he starts in some kind of weird weedy hedge,…
I don’t get it. You have to be a Montana resident to collect signatures for a ballot initiative, but you don’t even have to be an American citizen to get a Republican in the Montana Legislature to introduce a bill for you? Alex Schadenberg, executive…
Times are tough. But not for Montana’s only representative in the U.S. Congress, Dennis Rehberg (R-Ranch Subdivision LLC), who takes home three times the salary of an average family of four in Montana with his congressional salary of $174,000 alone. And that’s not including the…
Montana’s only Congressman Dennis Rehberg, one of the richest members of Congress, is really taking it out on his constituents this week. Rehberg is a mega-millionaire playboy and land developer who pretends to be a “rancher” but has instead subdivided the ranch he inherited to…
I received in email from Ken Miller this morning thanking me for my post about his gubernatorial Facebook page. Thank you the reporting on our new facebook page for Miller for Governor. I’m confident you will find more content to come worthy of blogging. Ken!…
Montana’s only representative in congress Denny Rehberg (R-Sues Firefighters) is looking pretty bad right now. But have you checked out the Montana Republican Party Facebook page lately? Do so. Local Republicans are feeling some serious heat on their only known medium of public communication, Facebook….
There are a few yet-to-be-remarked upon elements of the recent legislative primary elections in Montana, one of which is the failure of the Executive Director of the Montana Republican Party to win his own election. [Source: Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch’s new election results…
