Category: Legislature 2007
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Not Right
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/09/05/news/state/21-emergency.txt">GOP-led chamber may pass emergency fire bills, then adjourn</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>House Republican leaders are working on a plan to freeze the Democrat-controlled Senate out of the special legislative session that begins today and guarantee that only GOP-backed firefighting bills end up on the governor's desk.<br />n<br />nHouse Speaker Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, confirmed that he…
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Blame Game
When <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> announced a special session to pay for the fire fighting costs this year, the Montana Blogs started up. Depending on which blog you read, either the Republicans or the Democrats were to blame for this and that was the end of the story. As normal I didn't believe either side…
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Called Back
The <acronym title="Montana Legislators">children</acronym> have been <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/08/news/state/20-legislature_v.txt">called back into Special Session</a> by <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> to solve the budget mess they left and to vote on his pet project which failed the first time around. Reading the article it looks like he payed off some Republican <acronym title="Montana Legislators">children</acronym> to get what he…
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Divisions
The Montana Constitution requires a 90 day Legislative session every two years. The only purpose given in the Constitution for the Session is to draft a balanced budget that will run the State for the next two years. You know what, the <acronym title="Montana Legislators">children</acronym> <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/28/news/state/20-legislature_z.txt">couldn't handle this simple little thing</a> required of them…
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The Children Have Lost It
The <acronym title="Montana Legislators">children</acronym> are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/26/news/state/20-lange_v.txt">out of control this time</a>. Mainly one individual who used an obscenity laden tirade yesterday in the Republican party caucus. The only reason I say children is that there was quite a bit of applause from those present over his words. I guess something better to say would be…
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Dentists
An interesting story about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/16/news/state/40-legidentist.txt">lack of Dentists in rural Montana</a> and some of the solutions the Legislature has tried to implement for it. I'm no expert on such things so I don't pretend to know the solution but I understand that there is a lack of Dentist throughout the US so a solution…
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Different Viewpoint
I'm afraid I am going to have to take a little different viewpoint than most ranchers on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/11/news/state/56-legiwolves.txt">this subject</a>. Why should we spend money on getting the wolf delisted when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has all ready <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/30/news/state/25-wolf.txt">announced that it has planned on doing it</a>? Admittedly it is still in the…
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Children
Can somebody please tell me how sending Montana's school funding issue back to the courts for resolution is going to help the state of Montana? That sure <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/07/news/state/52-legifight.txt">sounds like what is going to happen</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Education groups are mixed on the bill. While they support the idea of state funding for all-day kindergarten, they…
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Support
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/03/news/state/90-legiconfirm.txt">This just shows</a> how <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> and the state's Democrats do not support the largest segment of the agricultural industry in Montana, cattle production. I guess the goal is to drive all cattle producers out of Montana if the weather doesn't do it first. For the record I am not a member…
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Shoving It Down Our Throats
Two years ago when the Montana Legislature was in session I wrote very often about the stupidity of the ethanol mandate they were trying to put in and how if consumers wanted ethanol the market would support them and their would be no need for a mandate. As usual, nobody listened and they voted in…