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I do have to say that this photo would be slightly more interesting/illuminating (pun intended, I guess) if it included western Montana....
Intelligent Discontent - 2:02 p.m. - 10 clicks 
Democratic candidate for Attorney General Jesse Laslovich announced today that he’s received the endorsement of three-term Attorney General Mike Greely. From Mr. Greely’s letter: Not only is Jesse an accomplished legislator, he’s also a successful and experienced criminal prosecutor. Jesse prosecuted the longest Madoff-style Ponzi scheme in Montana’s history, has returned millions of dollars...
Intelligent Discontent - Thu 11:41 p.m. - 14 clicks
All hat, no cashmere goats. That’s the only possible explanation for the out-of touch remarks made by Representative Rehberg when he suggested that there is no danger in agricultural work. Rehberg, a six-term congressman who’s running to unseat Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), said he’s a fifth-generation Montana rancher whose great grandfather, born in 1873, started [...]...
Intelligent Discontent - Thu 4:02 p.m. - 19 clicks
While I’m inclined to agree with those who decry the media’s focus on fundraising instead of discussion of issues, it’s hard to ignore the fact that Representative Rehberg is making national news for his inept fundraising this cycle: LOSERS For whatever reason, Reps. Rick Berg (R-N.D.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) all had [...]...
Intelligent Discontent - Thu 3:45 p.m. - 10 clicks
If you’re a Republican running for governor in Montana (and other than Jeff Essmann, who’s not these days?) it seems that there are really only three things you need to talk about: restricting the right of women to make decisions about their bodies, reducing the tax burden on massive corporations, and decreasing regulations that “harm” [...]...
Intelligent Discontent - Thu 3:02 p.m. - 12 clicks
by Pete Talbot Eating crow First, an apology to our readers for a factual error. We wrote that GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Miller was going to announce Billie Orr, from Bozeman, as his running mate. It turns out that the PSC’s Bill Gallagher got the nod. We got the Orr info from a reliable source. [...] ...
4&20 Blackbirds - Wed 11:07 p.m. - 13 clicks
by jhwygirl Quick hit here. Caught this yesterday Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Montana’s Electrical Cooperatives Association is sponsoring its Campaign School which is designed – as the Chronicle put it – to encourage newcomers to enter the political sector. Classes are being held in Great Falls on the 7th, Missoula the 8th, Bozeman the 9th and [...] ...
4&20 Blackbirds - Wed 7:02 p.m. - 11 clicks
The Crow Reservation in Montana was first defined by the United States government at the Fort Laramie Treaty Council of 1851. Subsequently, the Indian Office (later known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs) assigned Indian agents to administer the reservation. In 1902 Samuel G. Reynolds became the Indian agent for the Crow reservation and began to implement a program of self-sufficiency. He cut off...
DailyKos (Montana) - Tue 8:27 a.m. - 22 clicks
by jhwygirl Worthy sources are confirming GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Ken Miller – who’s hitting Rick Hill’s insurance big business connections pretty hard – will be announcing one of Bozeman’s newer residents Billie Orr as his Lieutenant Governor running mate soon. Who is Billie Orr? From her Wikipedia page: Billie J. Orr, Ed.D. is an [...] ...
4&20 Blackbirds - Mon 6:47 p.m. - 16 clicks
Senator Tester, on NPR’s All Things Considered, today: “Well, I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I don’t know corporations that can be put in prison. I do know people that can be put in prison. I mean, it’s a totally different entity. I don’t think the forefathers envisioned when this country [...]...
Intelligent Discontent - Mon 4:01 p.m. - 16 clicks
Who says Congress doesn't work on issues that matter to Americans during tough economic times? Montana congressman Denny Rehberg, co-founder of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus and Michelle Bachmann's earliest endorser, has announced that he will hold a hearing this week on a crucial issue: a statue of Jesus at a ski resort. Here's a pic. ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Sun 9:09 a.m. - 25 clicks
While checking into a motel in the small town of Seeley Lake, Montana, a small herd of deer—about a dozen—ambled across the parking lot and asked to have their pictures taken. This is their photo diary. ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 19
The Billings Montana Shrugged TEA Party has issued a "CALL TO ACTION" today (capitalization and inexplicable quotation marks are their own.) In an email to TEA Party members, Billings TEA Party leader Eric Olsen calls for a boycott of all news. The TEA Party leader says the boycott is needed because news agencies in Billings and elsewhere "are complicit in the destruction of Amer...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 17 - 14 clicks
For more than a hundred miles the narrow Swan Valley runs between two mountain chains in Montana’s Northern Rockies. At the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago, the glaciers receded from the valley leaving behind a number of lakes and an area which eventually became tall forests. It was used as a hunting and resource area by the Pend d’Oreilles Indians and in the nineteenth century it...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 15
The topic of Montana's election financing ruling yesterday has already been diaried - but I spent last night reading the decision and wanted to share some thoughts Cross-posted to my blog at dailyoligarch.com , Twitter: @dailyoligarch At stake, Montana's well-titled 'Corrupt Practices Act', enacted in 1912, which specifies: (1) A corporation may not make a contribution or an expendi...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 5 - 2 clicks
If a court makes a ruling in the backwoods and no one willing to talk, is it still a ruling? Talking heads on television network news have proven that coprorations who sign pay checks are also responsible for the Montana gag order. To find out what Network News will not tell you, read below the fold... ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 4 - 2 clicks
Justices of the Montana Supreme Court The Montana Supreme Court, let's be clear, did not quite overturn Citizens United last week. Its 5-2 decision did uphold a ban in Montana state races on corporations funding independent expenditure ads, but the benefits of this decision will be extremely short-lived. First off, what happened here? The Montana law in question states that "a corpora...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 4 - 2 clicks
Given the reputation of the Rocky Mountain states for being pro-free market and pro-Republican-pretty-much-anything, I was pleasantly surprised to learn recently that Montana's Supreme Court had rejected Citizens United . Today, a Facebook friend who likes to examine multiple sides to any issue posted an interesting link to an article by one of the West's many radical libertarian groups. ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 3
As I sit and write this diary in chilly, snowy northern Montana I wonder why its not chilly and snowy. Its January 3rd, 2012 and though it snowed briefly on the last day of 2011, the temperatures rose and the white melted away by noon. That's how quickly snow melts after a December snowstorm in Las Vegas! And its not just where I live, even in North Dakota 400 miles east is enjoyin...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 3
There is some big news on the Citizens United front this morning. The Montana Supreme Court has found that the State laws governing unlimited corporate donations to state candidates actually pass muster under that (horrible and flawed) decision. This is in response to a trio of plaintiffs who claimed that Montana’s ban on direct use of unlimited corporate funds was an unconstitutiona...
DailyKos (Montana) - Jan 3
There are still a few hours to go until we reach the 2012 horizon, so there is still plenty of time for some antics from the Montana Republicans running for Governor in the GOP Primary. They would have to register high on the wackjob scale, however, to top this. ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Dec 31 - 2 clicks
Vermont's minimum-wage workers get a 31-cent raise While the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25—$2.60 an hour less (after adjusting for inflation) than it was in 1968—some states have instituted a higher minimum, or even indexed the minimum wage to inflation. In eight of those states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington—the minimum wage will go up a...
DailyKos (Montana) - Dec 27
This is my first diary entry here and it is about my brother's work. Thank you for taking the time to read this. My brother Ken Furrow is a wildlife biologist and documentary film maker based in Montana, our home state. He is working on a project I think is positive and important for the future of Montana. So many times I see problems around me but can't see any solution or even a path to a so...
DailyKos (Montana) - Dec 26
UPDATE 12/26/2011: This is from a statement from Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers regarding Republican Denny Rehberg as a target of recall, who also voted for NDAA. Here in Montana, while we will go after all three violators of the Bill of Rights, I will place special emphasis and "focus of effort" on Denny Rehberg, since he is so fond of wrapping himself in the flag and claim...
DailyKos (Montana) - Dec 25
Frequent Daily Kos poster, Ojibwa, has put out a call to represent . If you've never been a Kossack, now's your chance to find out what it's all about. While you're there, be sure to check Ojibwa's photo diaries of Montana. They are somewhat breathtaking. ...
Left in the West - Dec 17 - 2 clicks
Having just returned from Washington DC and a meeting with Dennis Rehberg, the blogger and twitterer ILIKEWOODS reports this to a post from Don Pogreba : You all want to hear this! I went to DC last week and I and my 8 other friends found out that Rehberg doesn't plan on dumping that border bill! He told us in about a half an hour interview that he thinks we still need this bill! His reaso...
Left in the West - Dec 12 - 16 clicks
Long ago the railroad abandoned much of its service in Northwest Montana. For many decades the old rail bed lay abandoned, part of a derelict landscape from a distant past. In recent years, however, parts of the old rail bed have been restored as a walking/biking trail. Here are some photos from one section of this trail. ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Nov 28
Earlier today at Down With Tyranny, we ran a post about the Montana congressional race . Perhaps looking for an excuse to not spend her entire day doing call time, the progressive candidate in the race, Franke Wilmer, was moved to write a guest post for us. Not a response but... well, give it a read after the jump . And, if you'd like, give her campaign a contribution . ...
DailyKos (Montana) - Nov 26
