The Monday Memo

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Welcome! We are about 36 days from election day! Here are the topics for today’s column:

  • Truth Tracker
  • Trump Lies
  • Daines & Trump
  • Sheehy/Tester Debate
  • Baseball & Football

TRUTH TRACKER:

NonStop Local ABC/Fox in Montana is fact-checking several campaign ads. They are doing a pretty good job with this monumental task. 

They recently examined a political advertisement targeting Montana Senator Jon Tester. Sponsored by the conservative political action committee Senate Leadership Fund, the ad makes several claims about Tester’s voting record.

Here are the highlights from NonStop Local:

  • The ad alleges that Tester voted to allow “biological men to compete in girls’ sports.” This claim is false.
  • The ad also states that Tester supported a farm program as part of the American Rescue Plan that “excluded white Montana farmers, just because they are white.” This statement is mostly false.
  • Another claim made in the ad is that Tester “voted to give amnesty to millions of illegals” and that this would affect Medicare and Social Security. They rated that statement as false.

In closing, NonStop Local reports that overall, they rate this advertisement as mostly false. Jon Tester did not vote to allow men to compete in women’s sports, did not vote to discriminate against white farmers, and supported a bipartisan immigration bill to provide legal paths for undocumented individuals alongside several Republican allies.

During this election, several lies are being spewed in commercials and social media posts. There appear to be several “trolls” on Montana social media attacking and spreading false information about Tester and other Democrats.

It’s important that the truth gets out, so please read the article and share it.    

You can read the whole report HERE.

TRUMP LIES:

Former President Donald Trump posted this photo on social media and several of his gullible followers in Montana reposted it. 

CNN is reporting that Trump is wildly distorting new statistics on immigration and crime to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.

CNN says that Trump falsely claimed Friday and Saturday that the statistics are specifically about criminal offenders who entered the US during the Biden-Harris administration; in reality, the figures are about offenders who entered the US over multiple decades, including during the Trump administration. And Trump falsely claimed that the statistics are specifically about people who are now living freely in the US; the figures actually include people who are currently in jails and prisons serving criminal sentences.

You can read the full report from CNN HERE. 

DAINES & TRUMP:

Instead of cheering on the Montana State Bobcats or the Montana Grizzlies or some Frontier Conference team from Montana, U.S. Senator Steve Daines and his wife attended the Georgia and Alabama football game with former President Donald Trump. (Source)

Daines proudly posted a photo of the three of them. Daines was wearing an Alabama hat. I posted the following comment:

“Anyone with common sense, would not let Trump be that close to his wife, girlfriend, female relatives, etc.” 

Daines will be on the clock (meaning he is up for reelection next) after this election in November. I hope he decides not to run, but he enjoys the spotlight while doing very little for Montana, so I imagine he will be all in.

SHEEHY/TESTER DEBATE:

Reminder –  Montana PBS will host a debate with Montana U.S. Senate candidates Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy at 7 p.m. TONIGHT Monday, Sept. 30. 

The debate will be simulcast live on Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, online at montanapbs.org/live, and on the Montana PBS Facebook page.

You should never schedule a debate during Monday Night Football. 

For more information, click HERE. 

BASEBALL & FOOTBALL:

The New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves will play a doubleheader today (Monday) to decide the final two wildcard teams. The first game starts at 11:10 Mountain time. It is on ESPN2. 

Both clubs would gain a spot with a split. But the Arizona D-backs would get in if either team is swept.

More information can be found HERE. 

There will be two Monday Night Football games tonight. Tennessee and Miami play at 5:30 p.m. (Mountain time) on ESPN. At 6:15 p.m., Seattle will take on Detroit on ABC. 

Is this a great country or what? 

## HAVE A GREAT WEEK ##

7 thoughts on “The Monday Memo”

  3. Good Morning Jackie,

    Thank you so very much for the link to the false onformation being put forth in the ads currently running against Jon Tester.

    I think it is telling that even though this bit of fact checking was done by one of the local news outlets, I do believe that they continue to air these false and misleading ads despite knowing by their own research that they are false.

    This is a massive level of cognitive dissonance in which they know and have indeed shown that these are misleading ads but still run them withut comment or disclaimer to continue to reap the bonaza of political ads in this political season.

    Unfortunately, I must harken back to your employer, Conrad Burns, who in one of his campaigns hammered on the need for term limits which he clearly new would not be enacted on the federal level. The sad side effect of this campaign was that it fired up the local GOP into a frenzy that got us a crazy term limit situation here in Montana where good representatives can be termed out when they are just begining to understand the machinery of governmnet and are cast into the interminal cycle of changing from a senate candidate to a house candidate and vise versa. Not to mention the shenanigans of moving across district lines etc.

    My point is that Trump is not likely to be re-elected with the current trajectory of the campaign, but in the process Montana may well lose our most effective federal legislator, with the critical seniority to move policy and who is a true grass roots Montana citizen.

    We would then end up with a clone of Daines, Gianforte, Downing and the rest of the rich folks coming here to tell us how we ought to live.

    It is a tragic commentary on both the process and gulibility of a large portion of Montana voters.

    What will they say on November 6? Yay! We got rid of that nasty Montana dirt farmer who is working for us and especially for veterans like you for a millionare from Minnesota who is not only incredibly toxic in his views and inability to tell the truth but who will activily work against the interests of everyday Montanans and for more rich out of staters taking over our once proud, independent state.

    • Very true. I believe that federal term limits were found to be unconstitutional. That was the reason the US Senators and U.S. representatives don’t have them.
      It is sad most of the statewide office holders are born elsewhere and are filthy rich. -JmB

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