Category: Gov. Schweitzer

I know, any thing I say about ethanol is too late now but I found this <a href="http://www.headwatersnews.org/pgeddes042005.html" target="_new">piece</a> very interesting. It's a foregone conclusion that the Governor is going to sign this boondoggle so I don't know what good this piece has but it's just another example of the problems with this mandate the…

We wouldn't want some pesky little thing like <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/04/18/build/state/25-schweitzer-vets.inc" target="_new">accountability</a> to plague our state government now would we? Naw, set standards and report how we've done. The <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> wouldn't want anything like that. Why the agency in question might find out how good of job it's not doing.…

I don't give <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym> much credit but I give him a BZ for this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/29/build/state/55-malpractice.inc" target="_new">Governor signs malpractice bills</a><br />n<br />nIt's a start.<br />n<br />n<b>I believe it was a good job,<br />nDespite this possible horror: that they might prefer the<br />nPreservation of their law in all its…

We all know the drought is bad around here so the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/23/build/state/50-drought.inc" target="_new">news story</a> about it today was no big surprise. I did find one part of the article really interesting.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ray Nelson of the Northern Rockies Fire Coordination Center in Missoula said it's too early to guarantee a bad fire season. While…

<img width='190' height='276' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/whiskey.jpg' alt='' /><a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/" target="_new">Craig</a> on occasion talks about the "drinking culture" here in Montana. I never completely agreed with his assessment of the situation or completely understood it until now. Thanks to <acronym title="<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>">The Second Coming</acronym>, or so his disciples think of him, I now…

Do you want to know what happens when you elect a man with no previous political experience to an important office? <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/10/build/state/25-schweitzer-meeting.inc" target="_new">Temper tantrums</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Senate Minority Leader Bob Keenan, R-Bigfork, said, "We went down there for 25 minutes and listened to him rant and have a 10-year-old temper tantrum. To me, it's sad.…

<b>Speak softly and carry a big stick. Theodore Roosevelt</b><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/03/08/build/state/64-gov-accused.inc" target="_new">Gov. Schweitzer's corollary</a>:<br />n<br />n<a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> has been threatening and intimidating freshman GOP lawmakers when they vote against his legislation. Schweitzer has been telling new Republican legislators that he will personally campaign against them during 2006 election season and will veto…