Caught My Eye…

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Hello Friends! Here are the topics that “caught my eye” this week:

  • Sheehy Hit with Lawsuit
  • U.S. Senate Border Security Bill
  • Wealthy Candidates
  • Memorial Day
  • One More Thing

SHEEHY HIT WITH LAWSUIT:

The Montana Independent is reporting that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy and his brother defrauded two former employees out of a share of their company that is worth millions, according to a lawsuit filed in Gallatin County District Court. The Montana Independent says the complaint contradicts the story that the Republican Senate candidate has shared about his business career.

According to the Montana Independent:

The 17-page complaint alleges that the Sheehy brothers executed a shell game involving the equity of three companies the brothers controlled: a holding company, Bridger Management, and two subsidiaries, Ascent Vision Technologies and Bridger Aerospace. The last of those remains Tim Sheehy’s base of operations, and recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission have shown Bridger Aerospace is in financial peril because of an excessive debt load. The facts underlying the new lawsuit, however, predate those troubles.

It was also reported that former Sheehy employees John Wantulok and Weston Irr filed the lawsuit in early April before Judge John C. Brown.

Every week some negative news comes out about Tim Sheehy. This has to be getting old for the Sheehy family and his supporters. Sheehy was not close to being ready to run for U.S. Senate and that is the fault of U.S. Senator Steve Daines and his NRSC Executive Director, Jason Theilman.

For the good of his family, Sheehy should drop out of the race and try to go back to living a private life.

U.S. SENATE BORDER SECURITY BILL:

The Associated Press (AP) reported that Senate Republicans again blocked a bill meant to clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sought Thursday to underscore GOP resistance to the proposal.

As for Montana’s Senators, Jon Tester again voted FOR bipartisan legislation to secure the southern border. Steve Daines voted AGAINST the bill, showing that he is using the border issue as a campaign tool and does not really want to see the problem solved before the November election. (Source)

WEALTHY CANDIDATES:

In a series of Tweets, Mike Dennison breaks down the candidates who are pouring their own money into their campaigns:

Sheehy/Tester:

In #mtsen race, Republican Tim Sheehy reports raising $2m in past six weeks — including $600K loan from self. About $2m of his $10.5m in campaign funds from his own pocket, in bid to challenge Dem @jontester. Tester at $37m total funds raised. #mtpol #mtnews (Source)

Downing:

MT GOP congressional district 2 candidate @TroyDowningMT dumps another $700K of own dough into his campaign — he’s over $1m now. He’s one of 8 Repubs vying for this open seat. Primary June 4. #mtpol #mtnews (Source)

Arntzen/Rehberg:

Arntzen now up to $750K of her own cash in campaign (86% of her total), while Rehberg loans another $150K this past month — but then repays $300K earlier loan. Go figure. #mtpol #mtnews (Source)

Montana has too many candidates (many from out of state) who use their wealth to try and buy an election. The best people for the job have little chance of winning.

MEMORIAL DAY:

Monday is Memorial Day. This day is to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice in uniform. God bless these warriors and their families.

ONE MORE THING:

In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
   That mark our place; and in the sky
   The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
   Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
       In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
   The torch; be yours to hold it high.
   If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
       In Flanders fields.

## HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ##

20 thoughts on “Caught My Eye…”

  1. I think there is a general ignorance surrounding the economic contributions made by people emigrating to America. Folks on the right love to say that immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans, but I think the truth is closer to immigrants are doing the work that Americans will not stoop to do – like farm labor. Mass deportations will lead to fields of produce rotting rather than being harvested, and we will find grocery prices increasing again due to scarcity.

    • I think instead of immigrants are doing work Americans won’t do it’s more correct to say they do work whites won’t do. And I don’t think it’s the type of work they’re asked to do it’s the pay they get for it. Cheap labor. I made a good living working those kind of jobs but I got paid fairly for it.

    • At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $182 billion to cover the costs incurred from the presence of more than 15.5 million illegal aliens, and about 5.4 million citizen children of illegal aliens. That amounts to a cost burden of approximately $8,776 per illegal alien/citizen child. The burden of illegal immigration on U.S. taxpayers is both staggering and crippling, with the gross cost per taxpayer at $1,156 every year. 

      Illegal aliens only contribute roughly $32 billion in taxes at the state, local, and federal levels. This means that the net fiscal cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers totals approximately $150.7 billion.

      • Big Swede- I don’t doubt your information, so why don’t the clowns in DC do something about it instead of playing politics?
        Both parties are to blame for the immigration mess.
        Thanks, JmB

      • Swede, take a deep breath on a nice fall day. Smell it at your place? Sure you do when the wind is just right. The sweet smell of the sugar beet factory. I didn’t mind it, but some people hated it. But if not for the migrant laborers in this country, your strawberry daiquiri would be about a hundred bucks! Someone has to do the back breaking farm labor. And white folks can’t do it. Hence, we gotta use the Grab-A-Hoe Indians and Mexicans. Only way to get produce that doesn’t cost as much as prime rib!

        Billings south side was settled by the Mexicans. They’re now a vital part of the city. The famous rock musician who recently died, Chan Romero, was from there. He wrote Hippy Hippy Shake, a favorite song of the Beatles. I knew the Romeros. All good musicians.

        https://teaching.usask.ca/indigenoussk/import/grab-a-hoe_indians.php

      • Not quite such a narrowly defined dire situation and actually quite the opposite, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

        “The surge in immigration will help bolster the U.S. economy by about $7 trillion over the next decade by swelling the labor force and increasing demand, the Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.

        The stronger growth will be good for the federal government, lifting revenues by about $1 trillion more than otherwise over the period, according to the non-partisan agency. Wages, however, will rise more slowly, in part reflecting the increase in the number of lower skilled workers, in the CBO’s estimation.

        “Increases in the population boost the demand for goods, services, and housing,” the CBO said in its budget and economic outlook for the next 10 years. “They also expand the productive capacity of the economy by increasing the size of the labor force.”

        https://time.com/6692645/immigration-economy-us-gdp-growth-cbo-report/

      • Big Swede: You don’t provide any sources for your anti-immigrant budget claims, but I’ve seen the same sort of numbers from some very dishonest xenophobes for over 30+ years. As Disraeli was said to have observed about statistics, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

        Seems to apply also to “information” from bigots. Very different sorts of numbers seem to come from agencies and organizations that actually cite real numbers from the overall economy.

        From a strictly personal viewpoint, I’d rather have a neighbor who came here to work, and does. Who came here to raise children to work and support the land where they live. Who willingly pays every dime of taxes and obligations to Social Security and Medicare that will never benefit themselves. I have known those people, I have worked with those people, and my life is better because of those people..

      • If we don’t consider things like increased government revenues and increased economic activity, then we aren’t talking about “net costs”. We’re talking about only a small piece of the overall picture.

        Because, if we don’t want to consider any bigger picture knock-on effects, then we have to do things like simply look at the raw $2 trillion in extra national debt the Trump tax cuts have already cost the nation due to lost revenues. Not to mention the additional $3.5 to $4.5 trillion they would add if extended. And the the interest cost on all that debt that to the American taxpayer. Rather than considering any economy boosting effects they may have had/continue to have.

        https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extending-trump-tax-cuts-would-add-46-trillion-to-the-deficit-cbo-finds

  2. Question. How does a primary school teacher like Miss Kitty Litter raise that kind of personal cash? I don’t get it. I taught nearly twenty years in class C schools, and I doubt I could scrape up 750 bucks to run a campaign let alone 750K. How does one do that, amass that kinda MAGA cash in one’s bank account without having some serious donors somewhere along the way! Anybody? Anybody? I really want to know.

    ”Arntzen now up to $750K of her own cash in campaign (86% of her total),”

    BTW, 750k is a bargain for whoever is paying for a seat in the House, especially since Elsie lacks the horse power to vote for anything she isn’t told to. She and Rosie are interchangeable. That’s why I’ll be crossing tickets to vote for Denny.

      • You’re right! But I hardly think that the gambling is the most family values oriented industry in the country. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. It destroys more families than most anything else. I remember well our own unsavory character, now passed, who controlled all the gambling in Great Falls. Ethics were not high on his list of priorities. Nor legalities.

        Wonder if people know that it’s gambling money that is supporting Elsie’s campaign? I personally would never vote for someone with ties to that “industry.” Too much possibility of negative influences on votes. I mean, since when do you and the gambling industry share the same goals?

        Google:

        Century Gaming Technologies

  3. Thanks for the report on Elsie’s fundraising. Her own $750k is 86% of her entire total? So “all others” have given her $122k. Wow, there is a candidate who has monster grass roots support.

    Was wondering why she is absent these days from the nightly really awful political TV commercials battle between “Fences work! … for cows, that don’t know how to jump or climb or tear them down” Rehberg and Never Trumper Downing. Need to get Elsie back in that mix with her clown getup and make it a total entertainment package.

    • I noticed Elsie is missing. Maybe the personal loan will put her back on the air for the last few days. Rehberg and Downing are burning through some cash it appears. -JmB

  4. One would think the unemployment rate would be a lot higher if those migrants were truly “attacking the opportunities of hardworking Americans”. But the unemploy!ent rate remains just as low or lower than when the ex-guy was in the White House.

    And one would think you would see ” hardworking Americans” lining up by the dozens for any open job in a farm field or fruit orchard or cleaning service or slaughterhouse or whatever, but one does not. Because “lazy Americans” do not want to do those jobs.

    And one would think that if there was enormous economic and pocketbook damage the economy might be in the tank but is is not, quarterly GDP keeps on growing just as well or better than it did with the ex-guy in office.

    And a lot of people including the CBO point to immigration as a big reason the economy has rebounded so strongly after Trump’s Covid crash, by helping fill the demand in a labor market where there are still to this day 10 million open jobs in Biden’s booming economy as of April. Where are all the “hard-working Americans” clamoring for those jobs? They do not exist.

    https://time.com/6692645/immigration-economy-us-gdp-growth-cbo-report/

  5. The devil is always in the details.

    On Thursday, Democrats will try to pass the border bill through the Senate. The bill is reportedly unchanged from the February version which would have accelerated the inflow of low-wage economic migrants by expanding various asylum and parole gateways. It would not offer any significant curbs or legal authorities to deport illegals or penalize employers who hire illegals.

    The bill is expected to fail, but it distracts the media from publicizing the massive economic and pocketbook damage caused by Biden’s mass migration. That goal is increasingly important as President Donald Trump spotlights the damage during the campaign.  Biden’s unpopular policy is  “flooding America’s labor pool with millions of low-wage illegal migrants who are directly attacking the wages and opportunities of hard-working Americans,” said a May statement from the Trump campaign.

    • AND, Daines voted no and Tester voted yes on the border security bill.
      The games they play in DC…
      Thanks, JmB

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