Thanks for starting your week with The Western Word! Here are the topics for today’s independent commentary:
- Cromwell Defeats AG Knudsen
- Coming to Take Our Guns
- Cheesecake Factory Voting
- One More Thing
CROMWELL DEFEATS AG KNUDSEN:
On Friday, the Montana Free Press reported the Montana Supreme Court sided unanimously with Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell in her case against Attorney General Austin Knudsen on Friday, ruling that Knudsen exceeded his authority when he attempted to take control of Cromwell’s local responsibilities.
Basically, the court ruled that Knudsen did not have legal authority to take supervisory control of Cromwell’s office.
I think the key part of the reporting is that the Montana Supreme Court sided unanimously with Cromwell in her case against Knudsen. Unanimously.
By the way, the Montana Supreme Court has seven members. Most people believe the court has three conservative and four liberal members. They all ruled against Knudsen.
I think Knudsen will be best known for politicizing the Attorney General’s office – He’s probably the most partisan AG in recent memory. He and his MAGA friends in the legislature have cost the state a lot of money by passing and defending unconstitutional laws.
COMING TO TAKE OUR GUNS:
It was just a day or two after the MAGAs lost many elections all across the fruited plains for them to start telling their followers that the Democrats would be coming for their guns. (HERE)
I’ve had the same number of guns since Reagan and Bush, through Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and now Trump. No Democratic majority at the federal level has ever passed a law to completely confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens.
Something to remember: it was these same people who said the immigrants in Ohio were eating pets. (Source)
CHEESECAKE FACTORY VOTING:
It is probably a good thing for Montana MAGAs that there’s not a Cheesecake Factory in Montana.
In case you were wondering what the Cheesecake Factory has to do with this election, former President Barack Obama joked during a campaign rally that President Donald Trump’s gold-accented White House renovations made the building look like “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”
In case you have not been inside a Cheesecake Factory, there’s a video you can watch HERE.
In this day and age of analysis of election results, someone decided to check and see how Democrats and Republicans did in counties that contain a Cheesecake Factory. One report found that Democrats won the Cheesecake Factory counties by 29 points. (Source)
Another analysis found that Democrats won the Cheesecake Factory counties by 30 points. (Source)
ONE MORE THING:
Is the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald now the second most famous wreck in November?
## HAVE A GREAT WEEK ##
