Max in Trouble

Max Baucus was cruising along to a win in the general election, when all of a sudden he voted against 90% of Montanans when he voted for the $700+ billion bailout bill. The bill was also loaded down with pork.

After the bailout vote, one company (AIG) that received the money Max voted for took a retreat at a resort and received spa treatments for a cool $440,000. Taxpayers now own about 80% of that company. I’m looking forward to my spa treatment.

Wonderful work, Max and friends. Now Baucus is getting his head handed to him in the letters to the editor section of most newspapers.

For example:
“Tester, Rehberg did right thing; Baucus blew it”
“Baucus didn’t follow will of his constituents”

The comments associated with these letters on the Billings Gazette website show Montanans are outraged with Baucus for his vote against Montanans.

Feeling there was trouble brewing with his vote (weeks late), Max sent the newspapers his opinion on the bailout. Ouch! More and more comments below the opinion show that Max Baucus was out of touch with the constituents he’s counting on to send him back to DC for another six years.

To change the subject, Max has more commercials on television and radio than he probably planned to have. That’s good for conservative candidates, because Max has to spend a little more money on his race than he planned, and that prevents him from spending it on “Suzy Democrat in House District XX.”

One veteran’s commercial angers me. Max takes credit for all things good for veterans and has four or five veterans vouching for him. One thing Max has never answered is where was he when the Vietnam era draft was going on? Did he do a Biden?

The Montana GOP has to be kicking themselves in the butt for not providing a strong candidate to take on Max Baucus. They should be. Max is weakened. It’s been proven that his party blocked regulation of these companies – these companies ran wild and Max received the most campaign contributions of any Montana politician for his work for them.

The chances of Bob Kelleher beating Max Baucus are still slim. Many Montanans feel that Max Baucus is a joke and they may just vote for Anybody But Max (ABM) to send that message. Stranger things have happened.

Published in: on October 9, 2008 at 12:53 pm  Leave a Comment  

Breaking the Law, again

It seems that every two years the Montana Democrats record phone messages and place automated phone calls for their candidates across our state. It is against the law, but nobody will do anything about it.

According to an article in today’s Great Falls Tribune, the Montana Democrats are breaking Montana’s automated telephone call law again this election cycle. In an “in your face” attitude, they admitted doing it.

The Tribune pointed out that Lewis and Clark County Attorney, Leo Gallagher (a Democrat), admits he has received several complaints over the last eight years about these calls, but he has done nothing.

No wonder the calls continue.

These types of calls are illegal under state law, and the violators can be fined up to $2,500. If a couple candidates were prosecuted and fined $2500, they would stop these calls very quickly.

Sadly it does not look like we can find anyone in authority willing to take the time to prosecute the offenders. If you get one of these calls, contact your county attorney and file a complaint. At least it will be reported. Then contact your local media and tell them your received an illegal pre-recorded phone campaign call and that you contacted the county attorney’s office to report it.

Back in 2005, both Jon Tester and John Morrison made pre-recorded phone calls to raise money for their campaigns. The Montana Attorney General, Mike McGrath, looked the other way as he recently did with the Schweitzer tampering issue, and now it appears he will look the other way on this incident. McGrath wants to be Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court. He hardly has the record of enforcing the law to get my vote.

So get ready, the Montana Democrats are going to chew up your cell phone minutes and interrupt your family time with these illegal phone calls. The elected members of their party who have the authority to prosecute these crimes are letting them slide. Montanans deserve better.

Published in: on October 9, 2008 at 8:59 am  Comments (5)  

Open for "Business"

It was really no surprise to me that U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy slapped the Montana GOP for challenging a few voters. He issued a statement about the issue late Wednesday. There’s a hearing scheduled for October 14.

According to the Associated Press, Judge Molloy, “…issued a scathing criticism of Republican efforts to challenge the registrations of nearly 6,000 voters in Montana. The judge slammed the effort as “mischief” that targeted young Democrats and may have violated voter rights laws.”

Judge Molloy was born in Butte, where there were around 714 challenges by the Montana GOP. He was appointed to this position by President Bill Clinton back in 1995.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, there’s really nowhere for people to turn to ensure the elections are fair and the voters who are voting are legally able to vote. Nowhere. You can bet there won’t be any challenges to any possible voter fraud in Montana for the rest of this election cycle. Monica Ray can have her way.

So, let’s give a nice Big Sky hello and welcome to Obama and ACORN – Montana is open for your “business.”

Published in: on October 9, 2008 at 7:22 am  Leave a Comment