Posts under ‘Montana Politics’

Doug in comments reminded me that Missoulapolis has not blogged the latest REIC story in the Missoulian Monday.
A few factors this year seem to be leading some new buyers into the local market despite the inventory. The economy has pushed down prices, and the homebuyer tax credit coupled with low interest rates are drawing some [...]

The RNC resolution Gabe blogged about at Ace yesterday has just arrived in my hot little hands.
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have recently supported primary or special election candidates who professed allegiance to the Republican Party but who, as their circumstances changed and to [...]

New York Magazine is running an excerpt from Game Change by John Heilemann, about the John Edwards Disaster. Remember this juicy heads up I gave you in August 2008?  And now, for the rest of the story.
There was nothing legitimate…about Hunter’s behavior. It was freaky, wildly inappropriate, and all too visible. She flirted outlandishly with [...]

Continued from yesterday.  So I signed the petition to recall Sen. Max Baucus - it’s the thought that counts! - but I have my doubts. It seems the campaign to recall US senators is being promoted by these expert networkers. They deserve MoveOn points for chutzpah, but I’m afraid it won’t fly.
The Montana Recall [...]

Some plaintive language in the latest Montana Tavern Owners paper (not online):
Representatives of the three major machine route vendors told the Tavern Times Dec. 15 and 16 that play volumes continue to slip 10 weeks after the ban took effect, with declines in the 20-30 percent range state-side on a year-to-ear comparison…businesses focused mostly [...]

Seems I missed this story from the AP last December 3 (related to this).
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Very few of the growing number of Montana lawmakers taking state jobs appear to be complying with a largely forgotten ethics law requiring proof that such arrangements don’t lead to double-dipping, a survey by The Associated Press has [...]

Electric City’s Travis Kavulla, writing in the National Review Online.
If the Missoulian had run the story and not allowed itself to be bullied, I think it safe to say the scandal, unmassaged by press flacks, would have been greater…
This conflict-of-interest story might have sent Baucus to new depths had not Team Baucus so thoroughly manipulated [...]

Now this is just embarrassing.  By Dana Milbank in the Washington Post:
Baucus has survived his indiscretion without a scratch. He has kept his place as the Senate Democrats’ floor leader for health-care reform, and in half a dozen appearances on the Senate floor on Wednesday uttered upward of 9,000 words.
Baucus’s secret? Call it the Dork [...]

The Helena Independent Record today brings up the Climategate scandal in its Science section.
The e-mails from a British university’s climate center, were obtained by computer hackers and released last month. Climate change skeptics contend the messages reveal that researchers manipulated and suppressed data and stifled dissent.
In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, [...]