Tagged: MT

Posted: July 11, 2012 at 9:58 pm

BREAKING: Romney Tells Montana GOP-ers Black People “Just Want More Free Stuff from the Government”

You probably heard the news that GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney was booed when he spoke to the NAACP earlier today.

Well Romney was in Montana tonight.   At a Hamilton, Montana fundraiser that anyone who dropped $50,000 per couple could attend, he gave the GOP-ers their money’s worth in Republican talking points.

Speaking of the black voters who booed him at the NAACP event, Romney told the Montana Republicans:

Remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy-more free stuff. But don’t forget nothing is really free.

Here’s Rachel Maddow with the story:

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm

REALLY?! TEA Party Lawmaker: Returning Bison to Tribes Part of Communist Plot to Drive Gas to $25/gallon

TEA Partiers huddle at a GOP event, perhaps to discuss how glad they are that women aren’t present. Pictured are Eric Olsen (left), Rep. Krayton Kerns (center) and Congressman Dennis Rehberg (right)

A new conspiracy is afoot in the Big Sky, according to a TEA Party Republican state legislator.

TEA Party Republican Rep. Krayton Kerns (R-Laurel) has written on his website that returning bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is part of a communist plot to “crush the Republic” and drive gas prices to $25/gallon. In case you’re one of the few people who doesn’t immediately grasp the obvious connection between bison and $25 gas, Kerns kindly explains how the plot will go down.

First, Walt Disney’s cartoon “Bambi” brainwashed the masses to the extent that “state sponsored worship of the earth and creation surpassed worship of our Creator.”

Returning wild bison to the Fort Peck reservation:

“is the second of a four step process to crush the republic and bring our populace into perfect dependence on big government—just as Karl Marx dreamed”

The third step in the Marxist plot, says Kerns, is that “bison will overpopulate” and soon “thousands” will be “ravaging” the area.

Finally, Kerns rationally concludes,

“The world’s economy will grind to a halt due to instability in the Middle East driving the price of gasoline over $25 per gallon.”

Read more about the conspiracy on Kern’s website. I’ve also got screenshots here, here, and here.

Rep. Kerns is outraged that wild, genetically pure bison have returned to tribal lands on the Great Plains. The move reunites American Indians with the iconic species that has been a fundamental part of their culture and the prairie ecosystem. I’m not sure how Kerns would explain the fact that gas prices have actually gone down since the bison were returned to Fort Peck.  

Sounding the alarm about this conspiracy will no doubt be a key component of the TEA Party’s message this fall.  How anyone could believe this stuff is a puzzle, but what the TEA Party lacks in intelligence, they more than make up in rage.    When a TEA Party candidate arrives at your door this fall to share their anger over this latest conspiracy, do not panic.  Simply hold up a book, which should make any tea baggers desirous of leaving your immediate vicinity. (It works like a crucifix on vampires.)

Rep. Kerns is the same TEA Party Republican that compared Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke to a rutting bulldog.  Sandra Fluke is the woman Rush Limbaugh called a slut for asking that since Viagra is covered by insurance, so should birth control.

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 7:27 pm

The Supernatural

TEA Party Republican Rep. Dan Kennedy, of Laurel, figured out he had no chance of being elected after participating in the  Infamous Session of Frivolous and Wacky Bills  decided to take some time to “focus on his furniture business.” Now, another wingnut has joined the fight between the mainstream conservative movement and its very non-mainstream fringe.

Meet Republican Sarah Laszloffy, an alum of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, where students of all ages come to learn how to live  ”a supernatural lifestyle.” (And you thought Republicans opposed alternative lifestyles.  Not true!)

According to the school’s website, Candidate Laszloffy and her fellow students learn how to “live the Bible,” —including useful skills such as “how to cast out demons” and other practical solutions to life’s most pressing problems.

Bethel’s members also  purport to have the ability to heal people through prayer and bring the dead back to life.

However, these beliefs led to a very bad situation for one young man, who either fell or was pushed of a 200-foot cliff before two Bethel students, who were with him, tried to pray him back to life–for hours–instead of calling 911.  The victim filed a lawsuit against the students after he ended up a paraplegic.

It’s not clear why someone with supernatural powers would want to sit around passing changes to the Montana Code Annotated.  Nonetheless, the non-mainstream’s champion for this seat is well-connected.   Sarah Laszloffy is the daughter of noted birther Jeff Laszloffy who is a lobbyist for the religious right.

Laszloffy, age 20, is running against Debra Bonogofsky in the Republican primary for Laurel’s House District 57.

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 7:26 pm

“Knee-Walking Drunk” Endorses Open Container Guy

Bitterroot state senator Jim Shockley’s citation earlier this year for drinking canned red beer while driving inspired the Republican to step down from his position. (He chaired the legislative committee drafting tougher DUI laws.)  But, it didn’t stop him from accepting the endorsement of former Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), whose infamous “I’m ready to go get knee-walking drunk!” foot-in-mouth syndrome led to his Senate demise.

Shockley announced the endorsement on his campaign website.

Perhaps this will become a kind of theme,  a stream of endorsements by drinking advocates.   Maybe those involved in the infamous and tragic Shane Hedges DUI accident and death of the House Majority Leader (in which Judy Martz barely escaped a prosecution for evidence tampering) will chime in. Rs have kept a steady pace since then so there are lots of endorsement opportunities for the campaign.

A review:

Of course, there is Alan Hale, Shockley’s colleague in the state house who is campaigning in favor of drinking and driving.

Brad Johnson, the former Secretary of State, got pulled over for a DUI and went subsequently to treatment, though it didn’t seem to faze him: from a rehab center, he actively continued campaigning in his PSC race and is now running again for Secretary of State, a position voters ousted him from in 2008.

Greg Barkus got a few DUIs on the road over the last decade; Scott Boggio, a GOP legislator from Red Lodge, ran up on a curb while driving around with another repub, Elsie Arntzen, and got pulled over, and turned out to be massively drunk, though of course Arntzen, a DUI Task Force member, expressed the usual right-wing-passenger-shock, and said she “had no idea” driver Boggio was impaired.

And of course then Barkus went for the hat-trick, a third DUI, this time in style by running a boat up into the rocky shore of Flathead Lake, causing injuries all around, with passenger Rehberg, drunk himself, taking a page out of Arntzen’s script and saying he was shocked to hear that the driver was impaired.

Then there was recently Brad Molnar, who mowed his car into that of some hapless girl just last year, and fled the scene and was placed under a restraining order from any contact with the victim.

Drinking, Driving, Boating, Hit and Runs. What is most important is that Republicans will often fight publicly for stiffer sentencing for criminals, and against the evil smoking of marijuana, and in favor of “values”.

Posted: March 29, 2011 at 8:50 pm

Montana Republican Says Drunkenness is “Way of Life”; Opposes DUI Laws

TEA party legislator Alan Hale yesterday made an impassioned speech on the floor of the Montana statehouse for the elimination of all DUI laws.  Intelligent Discontent has the story and the must watch video.

Alan Hale, a frosh legislator from Basin, MT, says that “taverns and bars connect people together” and are “the centers of our communities”.  To get to them, says Hale, “you must drive,” and thus DUI laws “are destroying a way of life” and should be eliminated.

Of course, Hale should know: he’s a bar owner, so I guess he’s doing a little self-dealing in his new job as legislator.

Generally, Republicans have had a long and difficult romance with alcohol in Montana– what with the heavy-drinking Congressman and his many drinking escapades, the Secretary of State who ran for office from rehab in 2010, the last governor’s chief-of-staff who drove drunk and killed the speaker of the House, and numerous GOP legislators who have recently been busted for drinking and driving and drinking and boating.

A few months back, Governor Schweitzer was harshly attacked by the GOP for having suggested publicly that the new GOP legislature legislature would have its share of “big boozers.” Schweitzer discovered data that showed a huge spike in liquor sales when the legislature convenes in Helena.

The GOP senate president saw an opportunity (and took the bait): he quickly penned an OpEd (entitled “Schweitzer Insults Sober, Hardworking Lawmakers“), decrying Schweitzer for having dared to suggest that alcohol has any meaningful presence during the legislative session.

A few days later, the GOP senate judiciary committee chairman was pulled over when a cop spied him drinking a homemade “red beer” (a special, yummy mixture of beer and tomato juice) while driving home from the statehouse.

Posted: September 8, 2010 at 7:29 am

The Many Faces of James Knox: More Knox Personalities Come to Light

Followers of psychic and spiritualist phenomena are no doubt familiar by now with James Knox, the Montana GOP candidate for state legislature who had the bizarre out-of-body experience of campaigning to himself for his own vote, and told the story in the Billings Gazette comments.

These same followers will be interested to know that evidence has recently been uncovered that the fascinating Knox has other personalities, or alter-personalities, as they are known to initiates.  The field of psychology has determined that the alternate personality is  often a defense mechanism, and it appears to serve as such for Knox as well.  These personalities manifest themselves as Knox “supporters” who come to his aid whenever Knox feels under fire.  When Knox needs a supporter, he simply becomes him or her.

While it is not yet known how much of Knox’s support comes in this format, we do know that the apparitions have played key roles in past Knox campaigns.  In the comments to a letter to the editor in the Billings Gazette while Knox was running for the Billings city council a commenter points out that Knox has revealed his feminine side by posting in as a “Nancy L.” This “Nancy L” persona is uniquely clued in to what Knox plans to do.  She also mispells the same words, and seems to pop up every time some disagreement with Knox appears:
Nancy L said on: November 4, 2009, 6:15 am

I am looking forward to Mr. Knox’s campaign on city truths he informed me he is about to publically[sic] present. He told me he will make it his responsibility to show how Billings pays employees to sit around on Sundays, how as an employer, the city is being held captive due to the public’s not knowing the truth. I am sure since he is not on council he will have a lot more leeway to tell the truth.

Thanks Mr. Knox for your efforts and I look forward to seeing you serve in the future.

Nancy L

However, the most compelling evidence that “Nancy L” is Knox appears when, halfway through one of “Nancy L’s” postings defending Knox, Knox apparently switches back to the main personality by signing a “Nancy L” post as “James Knox” (and here’s the screen shot)
Nancy L said on: November 6, 2009, 9:58 am

My mistake I thought the QRV where picked up on that trip but it was a rescue vehicle. The QRV are in process. Still it is the same point that the union did not allow firefighters to pick it up. Tina has supported the Fire Chief. As for cost there is cost in any time and energy legal review from the City’s attorney. Though I planned on not continuing this debate here, I wanted to follow up on what I found and publically[sic] make the correction that I thought it was the QRV that was picked up but it was a rescue vehicle. Again signing my name and being honest.

Last note. This post was not due to any sore losing. I have no issue with losing, it was a really close race! This is about what I learned when I ran and what I would of brought out in the council seat or now.

Thank you,

James Knox

James Knox is out-of-touch, with reality.Stay tuned, as there are, I am told, other Knox personalities that could manifest themselves at any time.  It’s not clear whether  or not Knox picked up this habit, or spiritual practice, of adopting other personalities in San Fransico, where he is from.

But fear not, dear reader, whether Knox has the full support and backing of the Republican Party.  He does.  Regardless, someone should tell Knox won’t be able to bring along his gaggle of alter-egos when he goes to the polls to vote in November.