The Wednesday Read

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Hello! Here are the topics for The Wednesday Read:

  • Sheehy – One Big Question Mark
  • Growth Policy Consultant
  • Trump & Unified Reich
  • One More Thing

SHEEHY – ONE BIG QUESTION MARK:

Every week we find some negative information about Tim Sheehy who is running for U.S. Senate in Montana.

The Daily Beast is reporting:

Tim Sheehy, the Navy SEAL running to unseat Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester, has repeatedly told voters he was “discharged” from the military for medical reasons, owing to wounds sustained in service.
But the Republican’s own autobiography, published just last year, says otherwise; he wrote that he became disillusioned with military personnel policies and left of his own accord after being injured in a training accident.

I guess the truth could be found in Sheehy’s DD Form 214. His team can send me a copy and I will review it and post my findings.

The gunshot wound story is still unsolved. There are too many contradictions in many of Sheehy’s stories, like how many times has he been wounded and did he suffer a wound in Glacier National Park? He won’t release his medical records to clear up the mess. Then there’s the “rural Minnesota” issue, plus the company he runs may be going under.

The negative information we keep finding out about Sheehy is getting old. He should not be elected dog catcher of Bozeman, or wherever he lives. There has never been a U.S. Senate candidate in Montana who has so many questions concerning their past as Sheehy has.

All of Sheehy’s life is one big question mark. We don’t know what is true and what is false.

GROWTH POLICY CONSULTANT: 

The Electric is reporting that Great Falls City Commissioners will be asked during their May 21 meeting to select a consultant for the growth policy process. City staff are recommending Orion Planning and Design.

It was also reported that the city allocated $300,000 for the growth policy and that funding is being used to pay for the consultant, according to staff.

Great googly moogly.

It seems the city should already employ people who can address the growth policy issues, instead of spending $300k to hire an outsider.

The city of Great Falls should stop spending money they don’t have. If I were a commissioner, my vote would be “No,” but knowing the commission I bet they approve it unanimously.

Read The Electric report HERE.

TRUMP & UNIFIED REICH:

ABC News is reporting that Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday deleted a social media video that referenced the phrase “Unified Reich” after his critics said the phrase mirrors that of Nazi Germany.

Additionally, ABC News reports, that the phrase “Unified Reich” appears as a part of hypothetical news articles in the video that announce Trump’s hypothetical victory in the 2024 election, with the narrator asking, “What happens after Donald Trump wins?”
Under a big headline that says, “WHAT’S NEXT FOR AMERICA?” there is a smaller headline that appears to read: “INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED DRIVEN BY THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED REICH.”

If you are a Trump supporter, you really need to have your head examined.

ONE MORE THING:

If you cannot be corrected without being offended, then you’ll never truly grow in life. – Unknown

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11 thoughts on “The Wednesday Read”

    • Thanks for your comments.
      Trump lied or gave misleading comments over 30,000 times in his term. That has to be a record.
      As for Sheehy and his wound(s), they must think it’s important because that’s all his commercials are about.
      Sheehy needs to come clean. I think there’s even more to his story that’s not good. -JmB

      • News Flash Mike, politicians lie. If Trump’s 30K lies are so damming how come Montanans overwhelmingly endorse him?

        Could it be it’s what he does and not what he campaigns on. Could it be his lies are so minuscule in importance, or so overblown ideologically that we see thru them?

        You’re proving my point, certain lies matter others don’t.

      • Thanks. Sure politicians lie. That’s pretty well known, but in the grand scheme of things I may think your candidate’s lies are more damning than my candidate’s lies.
        I think Trump’s 30k lies cost him reelection although he carried Montana. What does that say about Montanans? I think it showed they are pretty gullible.
        Trump will win Montana again, but can he win the grand prize! -JmB

      • Good point. All Sheehy has is his service record, and his badly in debt business, because there’s certainly no “what he does” record of political accomplishments for voters to evaluate.

        There’s no specific policy proposals, either, other than doing away with health programs/insurance and making everyone pay cash or chickens to their old-timey country doctor who comes on house calls. Maybe in a rig similar to the one Doc Adams used to ride the range. The modern ones night need to be a little bigger to accommodate CAT scanners and so on, though.

        Tim has a perfectly respectable service record, so why lie about it? The idea of touting service records is honor, but honor does not include telling bald faced lies about that service.

    • Swede, most folks have the common sense and decency to not tell lies until they get into office. Shows a real lack of judgement on Sheey’s part.

      “Stolen Valor Act of 2013 – Amends the federal criminal code to rewrite provisions relating to fraudulent claims about military service to subject to a fine, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both an individual who, with intent to obtain money, property, or other tangible benefit.”

      Wonder if a senate seat is a tangible benefit? Folks get prosecuted for lying about their military records all the time.

      One thing I’ve always loved about Montana is the long list of military heroes and Medal of Honor winners who came from here. I’ve read all the obits for the last fifty years or so, and it always amazed me how these guys came back from the wars and didn’t brag, but simply got on with their lives in the most unassuming fashion. Men like Ben Steele who taught at EMC, and the men from Montana who flew with Jimmy Doolittle on the Tokyo raid. I feel very fortunate to have met many of these guys.

      And then we end up getting an outta state bullsh*tter in the running. We’ve gone from Ben Steele to a lying SEAL. That’s pretty damn sad! As a Nam vet myself, I’m insulted.

  2. Coming soon to Great Falls a pie shop, or more accurately a pie in the sky shop owned by locals Tryon and Doney. These two geniuses are going to plan us a rosy future where growth needs 450 new housing units per year just to keep pace with the influx of immigrants hungry for our nonexistent low-paying jobs! Think your taxes are high now, just wait ‘til you’re blessed to provide services to all the newbies! And of course that will require an accompanying safety budget! And a couple of new schools! Fire trucks! No problema? We can tax our way out of anything. Doney says so. He says the local economy is doing great! But Brett, then why the hell have my taxes doubled?

    Problem is of course all growth is by necessity organic. Planning is a small part of it. An area will grow on its own merits and at its own pace when its ready. Much more important than planning is regulation. There are plenty of predatory corporations out there just waiting to pounce on the rubes in backwater locations like Great Falls, especially with MAGAs on the city commission. That’s why we end up known as car wash city! Or casino town! Or hotel/motel row! Scrupulous regulation must always maintain and enhance the things that make you city attractive in the first place. Do that and you have no worries. You city will grow organically, maybe even attract some restaurants that aren’t chains! Like lots of other towns in Montana.

    But ya simply gotta wonder who was asleep at the wheel to allow so many car washes on Tenth. Is that really the best use of that land, or did the planners simple smooch someone’s behind to get in their good graces? Car washes are private equity’s wet dream. And a rip-off-the-rubes scheme. With six trillion dollars to spend, they have run out of things to buy so they’re buying up everything that’s left. Real estate, trailer courts, utilities, and even veterinary clinics! And raising the prices on everything. You can thank Trump’s tax breaks for that. And this should be job number one for the planners. Protect us from the private equity predators. Think I’m kidding? Go ask the folks in the Highwood Trailer Court who have been priced out of their homes overnight. Is this the new housing plan Doney foresees in our future?

    https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/investigates/investigates-trump-era-tax-cuts-lead-more-car-washes-gas-stations-jacksonville/A4HBRF7V3BCJNLD7YRKWTTNXZY/

    • Our big tax increases were the result of everyone raising them, not just the City. But one reason the City is always strapped for cash and wanting to gouge us for more and more is this:

      When we do get a substantial new business that night pay meaningful property taxes, it ends up in a TIF district where it only pays yearly taxes into the general fund at the flat low low starting rate of that TIF district, while all the rest of its tax money from yearly increases due to higher valuation goes into the TIF fund.

      Like this new asphalt transfer station we’re supposed to be getting on the east end of town. Heavy industrial business like Tryon et al continually say we need to take some of the burden off homeowners … so right into an existing TIF district it goes. Until the TIF finally runs out if it ever does.

      So Great Falls taxpayers will not see the full property tax benefit of that new business until well after a lot of us paying taxes now are dead. But we will immediately see whatever City budget hit that new business and all its associated traffic requires of City services and infrastructure. And then we’ll be told yet again that “growth” is creating ever more need for higher taxes on us existing homeowners. Yes there will be a few new jobs.

      Tryon has been on the City Commission for five plus years now. He’s spent that entire time telling people there’s no way “they” can bring in this particular business or that, but we’ll surely get better quality growth if only “we” adopt pro-growth policies.(Policies that are always nebulous, never specified, much like his “tax reform”).

      But he’s already had five years to perform his magic. He’s the senior guy on that Commission. Car washes, ever more non-tax-producing non-profits out south of town, generic chain restaurants coming in while others go out, non-tax-paying churches filling empty storefronts, and casino licenses relocating from one empty storefront or bar to another like an ongoing game of whack-a-mole. This are the businesses Great Falls attracts today. This is what Rick Tryon has built. This is his legacy.

      And now to add insult to injury Red Lobster has declared bankruptcy. What are the chances now of our City Commissioners landing that massive feather in their caps?

      • I enjoy your analysis of the city government. I would like to see your common sense approach on the city commission.
        As for Tryon, he’s been all talk no action. He’s got his followers fooled.
        I hate hearing about Red Lobster and bankruptcy. You’ve made me hungry for seafood.
        Thanks, JmB

      • Terry, thanks for you commentary. I can always count on you to intellectually flesh out my anemic rants. I really appreciate your scholarship. Wow. There’s that funny word again. Scholarship. Something a moron like Tryon never quite fully grasped the meaning of in his pseudo Brooklyn Italian upbringing of on the De Niro south side of Great Falls. Scholarship implies intelligence, something poor Ricky has avoided like a “school boy running from his books!” Shakespeare, Ricky. I know, sumthin’ a south sider wouldn’t quite understand! I really shouldn’t, but it’s just so much fun!

      • If Tyron wants pro-growth policies let’s see what he has to offer.

        Whenever you see or hear some business owner or would-be developer complain about what stunts growth here, it is always “city policies”. Well guess what, Tryon is the city. And has been for five years. So why are City policies still so restrictive? Maybe because he blindly supports anything and everything City staff wants to recommend?

        /Rick rant mode off for the day

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