Posted: April 17, 2012 at 7:17 am

Montana GOP Caught Lying in Anti-Bullock Ad

The fine folks at the Montana Republican Party have a television ad scheduled to go up today that contains lies about Steve Bullock.

The ad says, “Attorneys General across the nation, Republicans and Democrats, joined together to fight Obamacare at the Supreme Court.”

Not true.

According to documents filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, twenty-two Attorneys General filed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act. All are Republicans, as you can see from this list.

And so, it appears that even the Montana Republican Party is aware that its candidates can’t win without lying to the voters. Stations are prohibited from running ads unless they “make a reasonable inquiry” to determine whether this advertising is true. Airing false advertisements would be a disservice to Montana voters–and a violation of federal law.

Posted: October 26, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Desperate Times

Gary MacLaren, who resigned recently as treasurer for the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee over false negative attack mailers has been replaced as treasurer by Jake Eaton, former executive director of the Montana Republican Party who was at the center of the national scandal that erupted when he tried to remove 6,000 voters from the rolls in Montana. The voters were law-abiding citizens and who were legally registered, including veterans and active servicemen serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The move was so outrageous that it even spurred Lt. Governor John Bohlinger to pen a guest editorial chastising his own party for its acts. If the selection of Eaton is any indication of where the Republican party wants to take its electoral “strategy” in the final days, we can only expect these tactics to get worse.