Welcome to October! Here are the topics for today’s column:
- Voter Information Pamphlet
- Flint Advertisement on Women’s Sports
- Eric Schmitt’s 15 Minutes of Fame
- One More Thing
VOTER INFORMATION PAMPHLET:
I received my Montana Voter Information Pamphlet in the mail on Wednesday. The Secretary of State, Christi Jacobsen, is featured prominently in the pamphlet.
The pamphlet is 34 pages. On the back, they disclose:
510,000 copies of this public document were published at an estimated cost of $0.1485 per copy, for a total of $75,760.23 for printing. Distribution costs were paid for by county governments.
I wonder if we really need to spend this money since it can be found on the internet and most people have access to computers and smart phones.
I always look to see who is listed as being on the Approval Committee and the Rejection Committee. That tells me a lot about which way I will vote on the Initiative.
FLINT ADVERTISEMENT ON WOMEN’S SPORTS:
I saw that Ben Wineman and his Truth Tracker team at NonStop Local news rated a couple of claims (attacks) made in an Aaron Flint political advertisement that talks about women’s sports in Montana.
The Truth Tracker team rated two parts of the campaign ad. The first part is the quote from the mother of a girl who said that “Sam Forstag lobbied the Montana Legislature to let men play in women’s sports, and enter locker rooms of my girls.”
The Truth Tracker team rated that as “Half True.”
The other part rated was the statement made in the ad that said, “Sam Forstag expects us (girls) to compete against boys.”
That statement was rated “False” by the Truth Tracker team.
So it appears that most of Flint’s campaign ad was rated as false or half-true.
In the meantime, important real issues like gas prices, diesel prices are so high they are setting new records, tariffs are hurting small businesses, and who knows when the Iran war will end.
Check out the complete video from NonStop Local HERE.
ERIC SCHMITT’S 15 MINUTES OF FAME:
Missouri Republican Senator Eric Schmitt drew widespread attention during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week after mistakenly accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury over a basketball game. Schmitt cited unvetted text messages to claim Smith was in Atlanta for an NBA game, when Smith had actually attended a college game featuring the Iowa Hawkeyes. That game was in Maryland.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch, had this to say:
Just when you think Eric Schmitt couldn’t possibly embarrass himself and his constituents any more than he already has, he goes in for a rhetorical layup, gratuitously throws an elbow, spectacularly misses the shot and then stomps around the court indignantly when the ref calls foul.
That’s all metaphorical, of course. What Missouri’s perpetually seething junior senator really, truly did on Tuesday (in front of the whole country!) was to proffer a loony right-wing conspiracy based on some misunderstood text messages; falsely accuse a prosecutor of perjury; call him a “villain” and a “total dirtbag” — and then stand by that playground-level pejorative even after the whole thing turned out to be a lazy mistake on the part of Schmitt and his staff regarding, of all things, a basketball game.
This is the man representing 6 million Missourians in the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” Sheesh.
So, in short, the whole mess started when Schmitt and his staff confused Smith’s attendance at an Iowa Hawkeyes basketball game for an Atlanta Hawks game.
Hawkeyes/Hawks.
The Hill tells the whole story HERE.
ONE MORE THING:
I went to a family reunion and didn’t talk to a single person. I have not idea whose family it was, but their mac and cheese was worth it.
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