Candidate Senate District 45. Came to talk SoA ended up running for office. Mostly politics with some love for Motorcycles, Hockey, Snowboards, and Bourbon
"You're a conservative rural guy from the Bitterroot. Why are you a Democrat?"
I'm a Democrat because they're the party protecting my right to privacy, my stream access, my wildlife, and my healthcare (and they didn't raise my state taxes)
#mtpol
@pajoritoenojade
@ZoAndBehold
Lol, imagine telling your family, "I'll be gone all day because I have to oppress some Montanans my religion doesn't like." Then wonder why your adult kids never call.
@MacFarlaneNews
That's 25 agents that have to be removed from the USSS because of the appearance of corruption. And the fact that it took Cuffari 20 months to confiscate their phones after an attack on the Capitol means he has to go too.
That's how USSS and Homeland Security rebuild trust.
@MacFarlaneNews
If I lost my job because my boss' actions compromised the appearance of my integrity, I would file suit and expect a settlement...
But if the Secret Service wants to keep being the only "incorruptible" police force in America, they have to remove all appearances of corruption.
I mean, if Dr. Jill Biden was openly living over 1000 miles from her husband, the news would mention it. If Doug Emhoff was living in another state and refused to show up anywhere with Kamala Harris, I feel like Fox would be covering it for hours a day...
In MT every statewide seat is Republican. Let's check in:
Attorney General is under investigation for misconduct
Office of Public Instruction misplaced $65 million from the feds
State Auditor didn't investigate these
The Governor went on vacations while this happened
#mtpol
@Trx1000
Honda's are actually pretty good cars. They had some issues with paint durability (you can see it fading on the roof). Really I'm guessing it will still be on the road long after he dies of heat stroke because he voted for people that don't want him to turn on the AC
My weirdo Governor blocked feeding kids school lunches this summer. He donated to a museum that claims human and dinosaurs lived together. He sued to block stream access. He took a helicopter to shoot a collared wolf that had been caught in a trap for 2 days.
He is weird.
#mtpol
See all those red dots in Montana... Dirt farmer Jon Tester voted for that, job exporter Steve Daines voted against it. Which way do you think Steve's handpicked millionaire Sheehy will vote?
#VoteBlue
Right now, we are delivering America's largest infrastructure investment in generations.
Over 60,000 projects are moving forward—in communities of all sizes across America.
Montana is about to have another budget surplus.
We are 51st in teacher pay
Every School in the state has a budget shortage
Our State Hospital is understaffed
Our State prison is failing
We kicked thousands off of Medicare
This is fiscal neglect, not responsibility
#mtpol
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Two nights ago the 2nd largest city in Montana was hit with hurricane force winds. W/ widespread damage. Businesses and residences are still in danger. I've gone 36 hours without power.
A normal governor would issue a statement and provide assistance, mine is golfing.
#mtpol
I'm not a realtor, I don't know if it is a good time for a first time home buyer or not. But don't tell me investment firms buying homes isn't a problem
"It's only 20%" (25% in my county), means 1 out of every 5 homes in MT is bought by someone with no intention of living in it
MT had a surplus that was 2.5× larger than our annual budget.
The
@MTGOP
had a supermajority in the legislature and still approved the largest tax hike in MT history.
Our schools and hospitals are still broke.
Vote Blue for fiscal responsibility, not corporate handouts.
#mtpol
If you talk to any Montana veteran that served from Vietnam to Desert Storm, they will tell you that compared to 15 years ago VA services in Montana are over 1000× better.
Every one of those improvements are from bills Tester advanced. Tester solves problems.
#mtpol
I'm proud that I was born and raised in Montana, but that doesn't make me a better Montanan. My dad made me into the activist I am, he's from MI. My mom helped rewrite the Constitution, she was from OH. Being a Montanan isn't about birthright, it's values.
Tester has them.
#mtpol
Montana had a historic $2.7 billion budget surplus, then a GOP Supermajority passed the highest property tax increase in history...
Your kids' school cut positions, reduced resources, and increased class sizes.
The tax and spend GOP at work. Vote blue.
#mtpol
If I want to mail a letter across town in Missoula, it now must travel 200 miles over 2 passes to Spokane, get sorted, then travel 200 miles over 2 passes back to Missoula... How is that more efficient?
The GOP breaks things. Vote Blue if you like getting mail.
NEW: Postmaster DeJoy wants to make the USPS more efficient.
So his solution is to take mail from this rural Wyoming town, send it to be sorted in Denver, and then ship it back to Wyoming again.
It's not just absurd. It's also disastrous for postal workers and rural residents.
I'm not a climate scientist, but I have lived in Montana long enough to know that rain and record highs in December, and no snow on Mt Sentinel, means a long bad wildfire season. MT Gov should start preparing for that now... Instead of rallying against local health measures
Montana is being run by a handful of multi millionaire Republicans, from their private club outside Bozeman. Their strategy is to convince you that your neighbor is bad, while raising your taxes and cutting their own.
If you like your neighbor, vote Blue.
#mtpol
People,
@thehill
is a propaganda rag. No one booked this as "The Black National Anthem". The Hill is calling it that to get clicks because they know the racists will lose their minds. Way to be manipulated by right wing media.
@lawofruby
The crimes are election interference and tax fraud by reporting election spending as deductible business expenses, to conceal the purpose of the election spending.
That equals felony falsification of records. It's the most prosecuted crime in NYC.
Zinke (the only man that was too corrupt for the Trump administration) voted against a border bill that was almost identical to the one he voted for less than a year ago.
Show ponies don't do work, they put on shows.
Let's elect someone that will work.
@MonicaTranel
I decided to put together a thread of all the things I learned about Tim Sheehy
#mtpol
I first heard the name when he was handpicked by political insiders Mitch McConnell and Steve Daines in a smoke filled backroom. Making him a political insider.
So now that the entertainment discussion is over, can we discuss how my governor lost tens of millions in federal housing dollars because he didn't spend it... IN A HOUSING CRISIS?
Greed is killing working class dreams in Montana. Let's change that.
#mtpol
The Gianforte Admin and the MT GOP super-majority had a $2 billion surplus this year. That’s $2,000,000,000.00 more than they “needed” to pay the bills:
Montanans got a 40% to 50% increase on our property tax bills and the ALL REPUBLICAN PSC raised our power bills 28%
#VoteBlue
A Democrat will vote to feed 100 children in the chance that one of them might need it
A Republican will vote against feeding 100 children in the chance that one of them might not need it
The corrupt GOP House candidate will steal from us.
Zinke resigned his naval commission for, "misuse of government funds".
Zinke resigned as Secretary of the Interior after ethics investigators found 14 cases of, "misuse of government funds".
Vote Tranel for integrity.
Every chance he gets, my Senator advocates for a Canadian oil company.
The pipeline would take Canadian oil to Texas so it can be sold overseas. IT DOES NOTHING FOR AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!
I have never seen him fight this hard for any Montana company.
The Gianforte Administration and Austin Knudsen have now spent $1.4 million of your taxes defending laws that they were told were unconstitutional before they were passed.
Every one of these laws is to limit which Montanans are allowed to vote. My opponent supports this.
Gianforte is a horrible leader. He took office with a housing crisis and a healthcare crisis, he had a budget surplus and did nothing. He waited 2 more years and then had a once in a lifetime $2 billion budget surplus... and we still have a housing and healthcare crisis
#mtpol
Republicans have controlled both houses of the Montana State Legislature for 15 years. For the last 3 years there's been an extremist Republican Governor.
Montana is in the bottom 15 nationwide in wages, and the top 10 in housing costs.
It's time for a change.
#mtpol
@waltshaub
This is what happens when you forget how bad it was
Distributed vaccines
Highest new job numbers for any president
Largest investment in infrastructure ever
Ended a 20 y.o. war
Largest increase in wages in half a century
Forgave millions in student debt
What do you expect?
Montana laws have been written by oppressive Republicans for 15 years. They just passed the largest tax hike in history.
Montana is:
39th in wages
9th in housing costs
19th in cost of living
It's time for a change. If you want to be able to afford to stay in MT, elect Dems.
My billionaire Governor doesn't want you to know that he is taxed at the same rate as a worker earning minimum wage. He doesn't want fair taxes, he wants a sales tax. That way he gets a $7000 a year tax cut and a working mom pays for it by getting taxed for milk.
#mtpol
@Joshuajered
@AuroraPD
Holy $#!+, So the cops that busted a violin concert in the park, pulled over 4 minors in a car with Colorado plates, because the plate #'s matched an out of state stolen vehicle? There is no way they ran that Colorado plate and it came back stolen. Cops manufacture crime
Okay... I have recovered from a gunshot wound. Sheehy's newest story is he was shot in 2012, but the Glacier incident happened in 2015.
There is no Dr in America that would look at a 3 year old wound and say, "we have to report this gunshot".
Vote Tester. He isn't lying.
#mtpol
@mjpesquire
@oneunderscore__
@Popehat
I've only had a few jobs but I can tell you if my boss claimed on social media that something I worked on for 6 years was defective while threatening to lay me off... I'd defend myself as long as my contract allowed.
@richsignorelli
I'll accept the first claim as plausible,
But the second one is going to end up on
@BadLegalTakes
No lawyer wants you to talk to law enforcement ever
I'm deeply embarrassed and offended by my state legislature's attempts to minimize the Native voice in
#Montana
. I will defend my friends and all the Federally recognized Nations living in our state. I'll be ready to testify when all these bills come up.
#mtpol
#mtleg
Most Montanans take a pay cut to live in here. We have friends that used to live here that ask when we're going to be taking a vacation. That used to be okay, but now rent is higher in Lolo than in Portland. The result of 15 years of corporate GOP control. Workers deserve better.
Ballot error shuts down Montana online absentee voting system
#dailyinter
-lake
This should be bigger news. Seems like a huge failure by our SOS!!
#mtpol
#2024Elections
One inspiring thing from the war in Ukraine is America can see that in the rest of the world, they elect leaders between 30 and 50. People with a grasp on both the future and the past. If we want that here we need young ppl to vote.
Support
@VotersTomorrow
and
@santiagomayer_
One week after Trump hosted the Saudi Royal Family at his Bedminster Course, and two days after he met face to face with Hungarian dictator (and Putin Puppet) Victor Orban... The FBI and DOJ raided Mar-A-Lago because of violations of THE ESPIONAGE ACT!
$10 says he sold secrets.
It took the GOP less than 24 hrs to go from "Fuck Ukraine" to "We Stand with Ukraine"
My Senator and (now) Governor voted to stop Ukraine aid unless they lied about Biden
One MT candidate "joked" about the invasion
I wasn't born yesterday, and I've always sided with democracy
I'm watching MSNBC do a full segment about how Biden's popularity is falling, "even though people approve of the BBB bill when they find out what's in it." INSTEAD OF DOING A SEGMENT ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE BILL!
It's like a promo about media being bad at their job
Much like Copper King William Clark, who left a toxic mess that still haunts Butte and moved to New York, never to return again, Greg Gianforte is only interested in MT as a means to an end, and that should be a frightening thought to anyone who lives here
I'd like to file a complaint against DJ Cassidy and the
#DNC
.
Montana is literally kicking off Pearl Jam Week, a bunch of concerts to fundraise for Jon Tester...
And you play Kid Rock for us?
He's from Michigan.
I've been looking very closely at MT economics this year. I've come to the conclusion that Gianforte has brought the state to the edge of collapse. Workers can't afford to live here on these wages. If something isn't done soon, Missoula, Bozeman, and Billings will collapse
#mtpol
Beto is a Texas citizen. He holds no office. The men on that stage do. He walked up, didn't raise his voice, and told them that he wanted his elected officials to do something about this. He was removed from the event. That is the definition of "peaceful protest".
#BeLikeBeto
We like to think of Barbara Walters, Martin Luther King Jr., and Anne Frank as being from three different times in history, but they were all born in the same year.
Some history wasn't that long ago.
@BeijingPalmer
I mean... From an American perspective, there's a pretty big difference between being "richer than Louisiana" and being "poorer than Mississippi".
Let's return to a Montana for working Montanans
We need to put a check on the radical extremes of the MT administration
No more free elk tags for out of state millionaires, no tax cuts for private planes, no interfering with local control
Working representation, Jackson 4 HD97
In Montana, a billionaire governor and an extremist GOP Supermajority spent months trying to divide Montanans on social issues... Then raised our taxes and lowered the billionaire's.
It's time to elect working adults to clean up the children's mess.
#mtpol
Lying Tim Sheehy is a military hero. I respect his service.
My problem is that even if I take his story at his word, that means he lied to his CO, he lied on official military reports, and he lied to a Federal police officer... or he's lying to me now.
Not Senator material.
"I was shot in combat but I didn't report it cuz I like combat... Then years later the Dr that saw the wound thought it was fresh so he reported it to the police... But I didn't want to tell the police the truth either... It's a very simple story."
I'm not a lawyer, but from what little I understand about "ex parte", this is a big deal that could pose serious problems for Justice Thomas. Maybe law Twitter understands better?
I'm a Montanan. I was taught that you live and let live. Your neighbor's personal life was only your business if their house was on fire or they needed help in the snow.
I believe government can help us with fires and snow, and that it has no place in your family planning.
#mtpol
Approx. Montana budget 2023
$2.5 billion
Approx. MT budget surplus
$2.7 billion
Total
$5.2 billion
And they raised our taxes
Still a housing crisis
Still a nursing home crisis
Still a mental healthcare crisis
Still last in starting teacher pay
Still a broadband shortage
#mtpol
Montana had a $2.7 billion budget surplus and then raised your property taxes. How is your school still broke?
A GOP supermajority gave it away to corporations. It's time for a change Montana.
Missoula County Public Schools are cutting exactly 47 non-tenured positions.
These cuts, primarily teachers, will take place at the end of the current school year.
Montanans are scared that they won't be able to afford to stay in Montana. In Msla we've lost many local mainstays. Carlos' Last Stand, Hob Nob, The Shack, Pearl's, Howard's Pizza, Bathing Beauty's, etc.
No workers, no housing, and low wages is not, "stable or predictable"
#mtpol
Literally every time I see the word, "Sheehy". It's about another lie he told. I'm not sure the man has ever told the truth. Plain facts, Sheehy can't be trusted to represent himself, much less Montanans
#mtpol
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Steve Daines (the guy that handpicked Sheehy) is pushing a bill that just 6% of Montanans approve of.
Why?
It will close every wilderness research study area in Montana. And limit public access
Who paid him to advance a bill his constituents don't want?
1st thing I learned about Sheehy, was that he asked the gov to fund his business on the threat of climate change, then denied climate change
2nd was he lied about being funded by his very rich family
3rd he failed to pay his livestock tax
4th he lied about a "war" injury
Tales from the algorithm:
Today, I've seen tweets from MTG, Boebert, Gym Jordan, Byron Donalds, Daines, Zinke, and Elon. I don't follow any of them
I have not seen tweets from Tester, Liu, Duckworth, or Swalwell, who I do follow.
If you are a MT voter stop by the Twitter pages of
@SenatorTester
@SteveDaines
and
@RepRosendale
It's easy to see who's actually at work trying to help Montanans, and who's just out on a self-promotion tour and attacking their coworkers
#mtpol
I really don't get Montanans sometimes. They do nothing but complain about out-of-state millionaires coming and changing the MT way of life, then they vote for 4 out-of-state millionaires that literally campaigned on changing MT into a playground for rich people
#mtpol
Having a hard time paying your taxes? Republicans did that.
Can't find a home? Republicans did that.
Not able to afford healthcare? Republicans did that.
Worried about your child's school not having certified teachers?
Republicans did that.
#mtpol
Republicans hold every statewide elected office that Governs Montana
Republicans had a supermajority in the legislature, A FREAKING SUPERMAJORITY
GIANFORTE'S REPUBLICANS RAISED YOUR TAXES
Tips - new tac
Homes - raised property taxes
Marijuana - 20% on medicine
#mtpol
@nedsore
Okay, a saw, but... Liza has lockpicks, skeleton keys, and change from 5 different countries. She's unemployed like Danny Ocean is "unemployed"
Joe Biden has placed more Montanans into positions of power than any other President in history. Almost all of them are women. Many are native. This is good for MT.
Steve Daines and the other rich white men that bought seats in MT have objected to every single one.
#mtpol
In my life:
Bill Clinton started in a recession and rebuilt
Bush Jr. started with the best economy in history and crashed it
Obama started with the Great Recession and rebuilt
Trump started with the best economy in history and crashed it
Biden started with a disaster and rebuilt
Jon Tester is effective. He gets things done for Montana.
A billionaire GOP megadonor bureaucrat tried to hurt Montanans, yet millionaires, DC Daines, Malibu Zinke, and Jersey Gianforte did nothing.
Dirt Farmer/Senator Tester stood up for us.
#mtpol
@SteveDaines
More lies. Second time today I caught my Senator lying to me.
There has never been a single vote on this bill. Not on the floor, not in committee.
Someone made a political stunt of asking for "unanimous consent" on a bill that hasn't even made it out of committee.
Why are our schools still broke?
Why are they cutting teachers and programs after MT had a $2.7 billion surplus and a GOap supermajority approved the largest tax hike in MT history?
Where did our tax $$ go?
Not to our schools.
Vote blue.
#mtpol
“These are significant findings and as elected officials in charge of this, we require them to be here.” Audit questions $67M of federal money OPI spent. Legislators call for Arntzen to appear. By
@DarrellEhrlick
:
#mtnews
#mtpol
#mtleg
@RicoSuaveJD
@MikeLoychik
4.1 million Americans. American citizens, most born in America, paying taxes in America, serving in the US Armed Forces... no representation in Congress.
Sound fair to you?
The Governor’s failure to make this deadline may cost Montanans up to $10,000,000 in 2025.
Helena’s kick the can strategy on state maintenance needs to end. Prioritizing gimmicks and partisan virtue signals over doing real work hurts Montanans.
Here's a Montanan hard at work harvesting his crops, he planted, on land his grandfather left him. None of the MTGOP millionaires could make this video
@LadyTrashBag
@Shan73198
No... They call her "a cop" because if her record as AG of always siding with the cops. Including the most corrupt force in America, the LAPD.
Montana has a property tax problem.
MTDems, have released a plan that would cut property taxes for homeowners that live and work in Montana.
Greedy Greg, is looking forward to reviewing possible solutions, like creating new taxes.
It's insane that this is a race.
#mtpol
Biden actually gave MT money to expand Medicare... Gianforte turned it down because DPHHS "didn't have the manpower". The Federal Government responded "We'll pay for the manpower too."
This is a failure of leadership. Gianforte can't do the job.
I am so frustrated. I don’t air personal stuff but I’ve been trying since November to renew Medicaid. It took
a lot for me to even apply because I felt
shamed for it. I am currently a caregiver for my house bound mother and people
convinced me I should apply. I did.
When veterans wanted more choice in their healthcare, Tester said he'd do it, he went to work on it, and he passed it. Honest. Hard-working. Effective.
Now if a veteran accidentally shoots themselves in a National Park they don't have to worry about the bill.
#mtpol
Montana has a housing crisis
Montana has a wage crisis
Montana has a healthcare crisis
Montana has a school staffing crisis
Montana has a working class tax problem
Vote for people that want to solve these problems
Don't vote for people trying to divide MT and ban Tik-Tok
#mtpol
I have a bullet hole through my lung. It was from a dumb incident as a teen involving another teen mishandling a gun. I have never, and would never pretend I got it any other way.
Just something that crossed my mind that I'm sharing for no reason in particular.
There's going to be a lot of talk in MT about Dem messaging but it's not the problem. When I talked at the doors people supported me, but I knew once I left they were watching Fox News and listening to talk radio who told them I was a "baby killing pedo" just because I'm a D.
A lot of anger about
@RepRosendale
voting against Juneteenth, and against medals for Capitol Police... but I'm still more pissed about his vote to end democracy and install a Dictator.
#mtpol
@renato_mariotti
@EWErickson
The warrant would also state the crimes they suspect to find evidence of. He would know what they're looking for, where they expect to find it, and which crime it is evidence of.
So after the FL GOP objects to 41 math books for "CRT reasons"... There is only one approved provider of text books for Florida.
It just happens to be owned by a company that was run by the GOP VA governor that started this CRT nonsense, Glen Youngkin.
Time to check investments
I have yet to meet a single voter that was happy that the Montana legislature became national news for silencing an elected member.
One side was too busy attacking a Representative to fix our property taxes.
#LetHerSpeak
#TransDayOfVisibility
In 2017 Gianforte and Daines voted for a massive tax deduction for private plane owners... and to stop small business owners like contractors from deducting work expenses.
Elect a working class legislature.
The thing about the Lev Parnas story, isn't that it makes it very clear that crimes were committed by the President and his administration... It's that his phone has terabytes of evidence of those crimes and Garland didn't prosecute any of them.
I just ran for the legislative district I live in. My opponent was upset when I mentioned that she didn't live in the district
MT drew new districts. The MTGOP screams "it's gerrymandering!" I was looking at the new map and saw this. Guess who lives in that little square?
#mtpol
Montana is listed in the top 10 in housing costs by state in every study
Montana is listed in the bottom 15 in average salary by state in every study
The most important issues in Montana are building more housing and raising wages
Help me do that