Category: Montana Politics

Brian Schweitzer yet again needs to get a clue, a little thought before he speaks might help too. To help <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/08/31/build/state/65-schweitzer.inc">Montana college graduates</a> stay in the state after college he proposes to make thier student loan payments tax deductible for five years. EXCUSE ME, don't they have to have a job to pay taxes.…

Brian Schweitzer: "I have more than I need and less than I want,"<br />nBob Brown: he has exactly 16 guns – two of them antiques.<br />n<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/08/21/build/state/40-govs-guns.inc">Sounds</a> like two children, one saying they have more and better of something than the other one has. All that is really important is if they support…

<a href="http://www.headwatersnews.org/thompson081204.html"> "We're from the government, we're here to help,"</a><br />n<br />nThey create the problem so they can engineer the help.<br />n<br />n<i>To the federal government officials in charge it's just job security.</i><br />n<br />nJob security. That's exactly what it amounts to. Put thousands of people's livelihood in jeopardy for job security. Your government at…

I really think someone needs to tell <a href="http://www.brianschweitzer.com/images/road_pics/pic8.jpg">this man</a> to think before he <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/07/28/build/state/20-schweitzer-meatlabels.inc">speaks</a>. While I agree with the concept of <a href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/cool/index.htm">Country of Origin Labeling</a> (<acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym>) for meat and produce I don't see how one state can implement it. Like it or not this is a federal issue.<br…

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/21/build/state/70-gov-race.inc">Governor race focuses on purchase of vehicles</a><br />n<br />nNow come on. The only problem in the state is this? While I may have a problem with the stupid things (<a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000466.html">here</a>, <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000427.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000411.html">here</a>) that Brian Schweitzer says and does, at least he is out there with ideas, admittedly stupid ones, but…

Okay, I am having another one of these, I am just a dumb cowboy moments, so maybe somebody with a college degree can enlighten me on this. <br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=396&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">Schweitzer: Buying truck out of state was smart business</a><br />n<br />nNow you might remember I talked about this issue <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000449.html">earlier</a> and I find it…

I find <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/01/build/state/40-schweitzer.inc">this</a> alleged lack of support for Montana businesses interesting. Whether the allegation is true or not I can't say for sure but I have no reason to doubt it. I note at the end of the article:<br />n<br />n<i>Scarff said he e-mailed Schweitzer in May and asked the candidate why he bought…

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/06/10/build/state/27-clean-campaign.inc">Schweitzer, Brown call for clean campaign pledge</a><br />n<br />nYea, and pigs can fly too. The chances that there would be a clean campaign in Montana is immpossible. Why make such stupid pledges when you know you're going to break them.<br />n<br />n<b>The campaign kickoff was so dismal that it needed a plastic surgeon instead…

Many in Montana wish to see Coal Bed Methane (CBM) production to go full steam ahead as an economic development opportunity for Montana. Now <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000030.html">I have been real unsure</a> of this and the consequences of dewatering our aquifer in this arid country now I have another reason to be concerned. Water from some deep…

Montana Senator Conrad Burns is so concerned that the IRS get the money it's due he is unveiling an <a href="http://burns.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=1060">IRS kiosk in the Butte Public Library</a> on January 28th. Gee thanks so much Senator Burns. Wouldn't want the Federal Government to miss out on what it is "entitled" to.<br />n<br />n<b>Ninety eight percent of…