Category: Montana Politics

I see Governor-elect <acronym title="Brian Schweitzer">BS</acronym>'s transition team is working hard on thier jobs by <a title="Trash triggers tiff, trite talk" href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/11/17/build/state/48-capitol-trash.inc" target="_blank">rooting through trash</a>. So the most efficent way <acronym title="Brian Schweitzer">BS</acronym> can find to get ready to lead our great state is to dig in the garbage? Lord help us all.

When Brian Schweitzer got elected Governor I made the prediction that prescription drugs would come pouring over the border from Canada thanks to his <s>hare-brained scheme</s> <a href="http://www.brianschweitzer.com/drug_plan.html" target="_blank">prescription drug plan</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Schweitzer's plan calls for allowing local Montana pharmacists to re-import safe, affordable prescription drugs from Canada, where American made, U.S. taxpayer subsidized medicine…

While most people have been focusing their attention on the Presidential election this year, I have been paying attention to our Montana Governor race with more interest. It's not that the Presidential race isin't interesting, its just that everyone seems to be watching it so close that the more local elections are going by the…

Somebody is feeling the <a href="http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/09/30/opinions/a04093004_03.txt" target="_blank">heat</a> for a recent decision he made. In my opinion he can make all the excuses he wants and I won't buy them. He sold cattle producers out for support from the big meat packers pure and simple.<br />n<br />n<i>We also need to have a solid plan in place…

Sen. Conrad Burns is at it again. He is out there working so hard for Montana agriculture.<br />n<br />n<i>Last week in the Senate Appropriations Committee, an effort to require mandatory labeling of fruits, vegetables, meat, meat products, and other food products by Jan. 1, 2005, failed by a vote of 14 to 14. Burns was…

The whole idea of public employees giving endorsements to candidates for public office have always bothered me. But <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/16/build/state/30-patrol-courtraces.inc" target="_blank">this one</a> really bothers me. I realize as citizens they have opinions but what right do they have to endorse people. The only thing that this causes for me is to be suspicious of who…

To bad we won't get to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/09/build/state/50-kelleher-debate.inc">hear from all candidates</a>. Truth to be told though I am not real sure this question is for the judicial courts to decide, only the court of public opinion.<br />n<br />n<b>Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. Christopher Lasch</b>

There is gold in them there hills and Canyon Resources Corp. wants to get at it and this corporation is willing to spend the money to change Montanans minds to do just that. I have <a href="http://bigskyblog.com/index.php?p=37">talked before</a> how outside money to influence Montana elections bother me and this example ups that, outside forces getting…