Tagged: family values

Posted: May 29, 2012 at 8:35 pm

Attempted Bigamy

Neil Liviginstone, a.k.a. the Wannabe Most Interesting Man in the World, can often be found among the Helena Republican establishmenti with a woman on his arm whom he alternately introduces to everyone as his fiance and his wife. Her name is Cythia Tsai.

There’s only one problem.  Livingstone’s wife is Susan Livingstone.  Ms. Tsai is in fact his fiance.  The Livingstones are still married but are apparently in the process of estrangement, as this legal document indicates [PDF].

Livingstone has made little effort to disabuse anyone of the notion that he and Tsai are married.  Here is a screenshot of the photo from a Montana Public Radio profile describing her as his wife.  The caption on the current version of the story has since been updated to read “fiance.”

And several pro-Livingstone commenters on this blog have also referred to her as his wife.    Tsai is Livingstone’s Vice President at his Washington DC think tank, so Livingstone is going the Baucus route for sure.

Anyway, fiance it is.  We wish the happy threesome well.

More importantly,  this reminds me of a similar and hilarious item from a few years ago, when Dave Berg, a right-wing radio shock-jock from Billings, was revealed to have been married to two women at once.  Here is the the hilarious transcript from the day he was busted:

Interesting Berg in the Morning Call Today:
Berg: I’ve got Lisa on our Helena line. Lisa has been hangin’ on so patiently there. Lisa are you there?
Caller: I’m here. Thank you.
Berg: Thank you very much for your call.
Caller: Yeah, I have a question about education. I’m wondering. I saw something on the internet about you, Dave Berg, and your involvement with bigamy. And I just want to know what kind of message you think that sends our kids when you’re married to two women at the same time.
Berg: I am married to two women at the same time?
Caller: According to the website (Berg laughs) you had two wives from the period of July 13, 1998 to July 15, 1999.
Berg: That’s news to me. Ha ha ha.
Berg: Who the? Whose?
Caller: Apparently your name, apparently your real name is Dave Fullwiler.
Berg: Whose? Whose website?
Caller: You wrote the book called “The Gripes of Wrath”
Berg: Whose, uh whose, whose website is that you’re taking it from?
Caller: This is on several websites. It’s all over the blogs across Montana.

Berg: My goodness, I want to see a copy of that. Thank you very much.
Caller: I would go to leftinthewest.com if I were you and check it out.  There’s a ton of comments. People are really upset about it.
Caller: I’m going to be going to be calling advertisers of this station and letting them know that this is supposed to be a family values show. I mean, you talk about family values. What are you doing? This is unacceptable.
Berg: I would agree with you. I thank you very much Lisa for your call. I better check into that.
Berg: I better check into that.
Roy Brown: We need an education on that.
Berg: We certainly do.
Dave Rye: You’re listening to the family friendly and alcohol free–at least until he get’s off the air–Berg in the Morning. That’s a 60 second trip
across Montana. I’m Dave Ray.Northern News Network.
Bob Keenan: And one other thing David, if it was on the internet and it was on a blog site it must be true, Right?
Berg: Oh ho ho. Right, Absolutely. It’s in print, so it’s true.

Berg, who was so right-wing that he made Aaron Flint look like Bernie Sanders, later admitted being married to two women at once.  After his past was revealed, it wasn’t long before he disappeared from the air.

Posted: March 11, 2012 at 8:52 pm

Livingstone Says Wife Was with Him on the Floating Brothel

Yet again we see that working as a K street lobbyist does not prepare one to run for office, particularly in a race where damage control is required.

In a hilarious news article today, Neil Livingstone, GOP candidate for Governor of Montana, clarified a previous statement that he was once a guest “on a yacht full of hookers in Monte Carlo.”

Speaking with the Associated Press, Livingstone said that yes, he was indeed a guest on a boat full of prostitutes; but, that his wife accompanied him on the boat. And just to clear things up, Livingstone noted that his wife “was the only non-hooker on the boat.”  It should be noted that Livingstone and his wife have since parted ways.

The GOP gubernatorial primary in Montana is now looking to be a contest to see which candidate can produce the most bizarre episode from his past involving women. Livingstone is facing off against Rick Hill, a former Congressman who confessed to having had an affair with a cocktail waitress at a bar in Great Falls, a bar where the waitresses take turns putting on rubber mermaid tails and jumping into a giant tank behind the bar, from where they blow kisses to the patrons. And the Montana Press reported in 1996 that Hill’s wife once came to the bar and caught him in the act, canoodling with the waitress.

A boatload of hookers or a barload of mermaids. Family values will clearly be on the back burner for the Montana GOP this season.

Posted: October 31, 2011 at 7:14 am

Herd of Male Elephants

There are four or five real GOP contenders for governor. But did you know that these fine gentlemen have yielded nine or ten potential first ladies?

Many wives, mistresses and/or girlfriends. Rick Hill? Two wives and at least one mistress. Neil Livingstone? Recently divorced and dating a younger gal. Ryan Zinke, Livingstone’s number two? At least two wives. Jeff Essmann? At least two wives. Ken Miller and Corey Stapleton are the only guys not to have been married more than once, apparently. (And this hasn’t been lost on the the family values wing.  The Montana Right to Life passed over others to endorse Ken Miller recently, according to a recent Miller campaign email, which is pasted  below the fold.)

What we have here, certainly, is a bevy of ladies men.

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Posted: April 30, 2011 at 10:54 am

Rick Hill’s Campaign Banned from Editing Wikipedia Page

Wikipedia has temporarily blocked edits to its Rick Hill article after someone inside the campaign tried to erase references to some particularly-controversial Rick Hill scandals.

Early last week, the user cdenowh, who presumably is Rick Hill’s campaign operative Chuck Denowh, was banned from editing Rick Hill’s article on the “free encyclopedia anyone can edit” after a series of biased postings–and relentless whitewashes.

The shutdown warning cited a problem with bias, saying that:

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia’s content policies, particularly neutral point of view.

Hill’s campaign had attempted to remove the portion of the page that currently reads:

When he was running for re-election in 2000 shortly before Hill dropped out of the race citing eye-sight problems, it was reported in the New York Times that Hill had attacked his opponent, Chief State Schools Officer Nancy Keenan, for “lacking an understanding of family values” because “she has no children of her own.” Keenan responded she had a hysterectomy after cancer as a young woman. [2]

The campaign was also frantic to remove information about the details surrounding Hill’s extramarital affair with a cocktail waitress, which have recently resurfaced in a series of emails from religious conservatives. Before the Rick Hill campaign’s edits, the page contained this information, (screenshot) which Hill’s campaign repeatedly removed.

The sources were listed here, but Hill’s campaign repeatedly removed both the language and the source material.

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 6:47 am

Yellowstone Club Former Owners Start Year Plagued by Legal, Republican Breast-Licking Troubles

The Desert Sun is reporting this week that Montana tax officials are seeking $57 million in taxes allegedly owed by former Yellowstone Club owners Tim and Edra Blixseth from a $375 million loan the Blixseths (now divorced) took out that used their private millionaires’ ski retreat, the Yellowstone Club near Big Sky, Montana, as collateral.

State tax officials say the money was taxable income spent on jets, cars, yachts and other personal items written off as business expenses.

But that’s not all.  Gawker is reporting that a photo also came to light this week of a Republican Congresswoman who appears to be getting her breast licked by one of the Blixseths. With Bondage-Club gate still making the news, this is more evidence that Republican fundraisers aren’t really for the family values crowd I guess.