Posted: February 28, 2012 at 7:45 pm

ANALYSIS: What’s Behind Rick Hill’s Burning Pants

Republican Rick Hill is trying to tell folks in Eastern Montana that he’s a “Montana native” – despite being born, raised and schooled out-of-state. The deception was attempted at a Lincoln Day Dinner where Hill and the other GOP candidates spoke last week.

There are two ways to explain Hill’s behavior here. First, Hill could be lying because he thinks that’s the only way he stands a chance against Bullock.

Governor Schweitzer hit on this recently – pointing to one of the many reasons why Bullock is a stronger candidate than the GOPers:

“They’re just going to have a real tough time beating Bullock. Not only is he a great guy, he’s got a young and beautiful family . . . been a spectacular attorney general. He’s born and bred in Montana. A lot of these cats that are running right now, they’re born someplace else, they’re interlopers. They just show up, they say, ‘It’s a small state, maybe I can go be governor of it.’…Bullock has got deep roots, he’s a smart guy. If you’ve got a $100 in your pocket, you ought to bet on Bullock. Bullock’s going to win this race.”

The only other explanation is that dishonesty and deception is so deeply ingrained in Hill’s imbecilic nature that he just can’t help himself. After all, neither Jim Lynch nor Ken Miller lied about their out-of-state roots in the Sidney Herald article reporting on their appearance. Nor is this the first time Rick Hill has been caught trying to hide the truth about his past.

He tried to scrub from his Wikipedia page the fact that he left his wife and young kids for a mermaid/cocktail waitress. When his family showed up to beg him to come home he laughed in their faces. He described this behavior in an email to Republicans as “single parenthood.” If Rick Hill will lie about his own background, no one should be surprised when he lies about jobs, schools and revenue.

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Whitewashing Rick Hill’s Dirty Laundry

Someone on GOP Gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill’s team seems to think his past needed a little bit of a touch up.

Yesterday, after the GOP leadership’s meeting with the Governor yesterday, (during which GOP leadership admitted that the current work comp system, crafted while Hill was chair of the work comp board, is the most expensive in the nation for businesses and a top problem the GOP hears about from constituents), the helpful internet sprites edited Hill’s page to limit his involvement in the matter. Here’s a screenshot of a list of the edits as of Thursday evening.

Rick Hill’s involvement in crafting the current work comp system had been something the campaign was bragging about, as you can see from a screenshot of Hill’s website. Anyhoo, following yesterday’s meeting the wiki friends downplayed that bit. From the list of edits posted above:

Oh, they were also good enough to alter passages dealing with the whole matter of how expensive the current work comp program is, which you can see are not included in today’s version. Good thinking friends, because how would anyone ever find out about what a disaster the expensive work comp is if it’s not on Wikipedia?

Since November of last year, just days after Rick Hill announced he would run for Governor someone named “C. Denowh” among others, made more than 30 favorable changes to Hill’s Wikipedia page.

This is but the latest incident of the brown shirts editing out portions unflattering to Hill, such as a reference to Hill’s infamous assertion that a woman without children is unfit to hold office because she would have no knowledge of family values which you read about here. He’s done this again too. Here are the latest before and after screenshots that show someone continues to try to suppress Rick Hill’s own remarks.