Greetings! Here are the topics for today’s column:

• Dissolve Ethics Committee
• Reminder – Hell On Wheels
• Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges
• One More Thing

DISSOLVE ETHICS COMMITTEE:

The Electric is reporting that the Great Falls City Commission voted 3-1 during their May 20 meeting to dissolve the city’s ethics committee. Commissioner Shannon Wilson voted in opposition, and Susan Wolff was absent.

According to the reporting, I think one of the main reasons for dissolving the committee is cost savings. Now, ethics complaints will go directly to the Cascade County attorney. I am sure the county attorney has plenty of extra time to handle these complaints. 

Commissioner Rick Tryon was quoted in the report saying, “…this process has also led to a vehicle for citizens to launch political vendettas and personal vendettas against commissioners and staff in the past.”

It appears that there were fewer than one ethics complaint a year since they started the committee. If personal vendettas were the goal, it seems they failed. 

REMINDER – HELL ON WHEELS:

Diners on their way into SMOKED. American Barbecue and other Great Falls eateries that serve pork are in for an earful on Wednesday (TODAY) when “Hell on Wheels”—PETA’s hyper-realistic pig transport truck that looks as if it contains real pigs on their way to slaughter—will bombard them with actual recorded sounds of the animals’ panicked screams along with a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan.

Where: Outside SMOKED. American Barbecue, 203 2nd Ave. N., Great Falls

When: Wednesday, May 28, 12 noon

This should be interesting! For more details, click HERE. 

MONTANANS FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JUDGES:

Lee Newspapers is reporting that a ballot measure is in the works that would preserve nonpartisan judicial campaigns in Montana. 

Lee Newspapers reports that a new political committee, Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges, registered last week with the commissioner of political practices, allowing the group to begin raising and reporting money, although deadlines to begin the process won’t come until next year. 

I think judicial campaigns should be nonpartisan. The new Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, Cory Swanson, told the Montana Legislature back in February that the “judiciary should remain nonpartisan.” (Source) 

Swanson is correct. 

ONE MORE THING:

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that for as long as she lives, she will never shop at Harvard. (Source) 

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