Tim Sheehy shot himself in arm in Glacier park, according to law enforcement official, not as Sheehy claimed being shot in Afghanistan.
Stolen Valor Sheehy, disgusting, reprehensible.
#mtpol
Tim Sheehy piloted a tragic plane crash, killing people, destroying a home and is being sued.
Now he's running for Senate in Montana while being sued over the deadly crash.
#mtpol
Texas Senator Ted Cruz was in Bozeman, Montana this weekend, an airline employee caught him on film berating airline staff after he missed his flight and having law enforcement called on him.
#mtpol
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Gianforte has mismanaged Medicaid so badly that the Federal Government may take over administration of program from him and retroactively put people back on Medicaid that he dropped off because he wouldn't correctly manage program.
#mtpol
See letter from Feds here:
Ingrid Gustafson wins. Atrocious LR-131 loses.
It's a pro-privacy mandate. Voters have spoken and a woman's right to choose an abortion is hers.
#mtpol
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When Greg Gianforte took office Montana was 45th in the nation for average weekly wages.
Today, Montana is 48th in wages. Gianforte is failing in every way.
#mtpol
Zinke voted to ban abortion in Montana.
Monica Tranel is the mother of 3 daughters and she refuses to let the Supreme Court take away our freedoms
This about more than abortion, it's about controlling women and Monica won't let Zinke takeaway our freedom
#mtpol
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Belgrade School Board member Brian Heck busted in prostitution sting.
Heck ran on family values and is listed on Gallatin County Republicans website as a member.
Don't try that in a small town.
#mtpol
Republican Matt Rosendale proposed cutting $717 million from the US Dept of Agriculture.
The vote failed miserably.
Farmers and ranchers in Montana may vote for someone else next time.
#mtpol
Greg Gianforte refuses to help Montanans Starving, living in cars, he even goes so far as to reject $10 MILLION in FREE MONEY for universal summer lunch programs.
Gianforte must resign!
#mtpol
When Greg Gianforte took office Montana was 45th in the nation for average weekly wages.
Today, Montana is 48th in wages. Gianforte is failing in every way.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Ryan Zinke just got on a plane to go home for the weekend as we approach default on the nation's debt.
So, here’s my question: if you're so concerned about "work requirements," how about you show up to do your own job Zinke?
#mtpol
Montana Republicans officially excommunicate Marc Racicot
GOP GUV of Montana 1993-2001
RNC Chair 2002-3
Chairman of Bush reelection campaign 2004
This is an official declaration of war against every Republican that questions Trump and Q Anon Republicans
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Gianforte has mismanaged Medicaid so badly that the Federal Government may take over administration of program from him and retroactively put people back on Medicaid that he dropped off because he wouldn't correctly manage program.
#mtpol
Gianforte just got new polling in.
It's bad, he'll be selling his switcheroo I'm not a bad guy shtick.
He's going to spend $20 million dollars of his own money to try and trick Montanans because real Montanans find him fake, disingenuous, mean, disengaged and a failure.
#mtpol
Gianforte lowers taxes on himself.
Gianforte kicks Montanans off healthcare.
Gianforte raises your property tax and plans to institute a sales tax on everything you buy.
One term Gianforte.
#mtpol
CONTRAST:
Gianforte won't answer questions or hold public meetings
Ryan Busse holding a press conference in public open to questions from the Montana Press Corps mere steps from Gianforte's office
Gauntlet dropped
#mtpol
Rally at the Montana State Capitol to tell Gianforte to accept $10 million dollars for hungry kids and universal free lunches.
He has until June 30th to apply.
Next Monday June 26th, noon, Capitol Steps Flag Plaza.
#mtpol
#mtnews
RSVP HERE:
BREAKING AD:
Gianforte used an unprecedented PROPERTY TAX shift to give Montana families MONEY to billionaires and corporations
We had $2.6 billion surplus, why can't people find housing, childcare, or teachers get paid fairly?
Gianforte failed Montana.
No 2nd term.
#mtpol
Steve Daines literally won't show up to committee hearings to help lower inflation.
Banking committee needs quorum to do business, confirm nominees to fight inflation.
Daines is such a bad faith actor and he gets a free pass from the Montana press.
#mtnews
#mtmedia
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BREAKING: Montana court overturns trans athlete ban, anti-LGBTQ laws
Win by real Montana AttorneyGeneral
@raphgraybill
and the Goetz firm representing
@Montanafed
and students across Montana
#mtpol
Sidney Herald in Eastern Montana reports Montanans not happy with how the legislative session turned...
Wait until they get their record tax increase this week.
#mtpol
Ivanka Trump is in Big Sky tonight for the Wildlands Music Festival.
She's still got secret service protection.
Greg Gianforte has made Montana a playground for the rich, he doesn't care about you.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Gianforte is the worst Governor Montana has ever had.
#OneTermGianforte
Gianforte is cruel, he believes if you're poor you're a sinner, if you can't afford a home you're a loser, if your kid needs lunch then they can starve, if veterans need housing they can pound sand.
#mtpol
Greg Gianforte's plane flew to Heber City, Utah yesterday.
Heber City is a few miles from Park City where the company POWDR is located.
POWDR is attempting to build a resort at Holland Lake on our public lands.
What is Gianforte doing?
@SaveHollandLake
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Oh for the love of Christ, it's your job to clear administrative hurdles.
28 year old DPHHS chief Charlie Brereton is incompetent and Gianforte is politicizing feeding kids.
#mtpol
How many hunters in Montana go their whole lives without breaking a game law, much less two of them?
I don't hunt. Do the rest of you routinely ignore the law or is
@GovGianforte
an outlier? I assume it's the latter.
#mtpol
Ryan Zinke and Matt Rosendale have no solutions to make Montana a more vibrant, innovative state, but they'll be at the ribbon cuttings ceremonies for new investments in our state by bills they've openly opposed.
#mtpol
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Best quotes about this:
"Is this the Onion?"
"Was the author high when they wrote this?"
"Their must be a 2nd Montana they're talking about."
Why didn't they interview any Montanans or come to Montana or research the housing shortage?
#mtpol
#mtnews
Republicans hold every statewide. EVERY PSC seat AND 2/3s of the legislature
GOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-RECORD PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
-28% HIGHER POWER BILLS
-100,000 MONTANANS KICKED OFF HEALTHCARE
-RIVERS DESTROYED
-PUBLIC LANDS AND HUNTING TAGS FOR SALE TO HIGHEST BIDDER
#mtpol
Gianforte's DPHHS claimed they couldn't handle administering $10 million federal dollars for free children's lunches.
But today DPHHS sent all management staff to Big Sky for a weekend retreat.
These are the priorities of Greg Gianforte, Big Sky for me, Starving for u.
#mtpol
Gianforte didn't buy the meals or help the food bank, he just passed out other people's donations while Starving 50000 kids this summer by refusing $10 million in free federal money
Meanwhile Teachers are crying on the job
The all PR, no action Guv is a disgrace
#mtpol
Just say no to Gianforte getting a second term, these last few years will look good compared to what he'd do with more time.
Children's Health Insurance- GONE
RURAL HOSPITALS- GONE
Affordable housing for native Montanans- never again
Sales Tax - you betcha
#mtpol
Why is a nobody, with no record, who's whole platform is talking crap about beloved Senator Tester campaigning in North Dakota?
I'd guess mainly because he's not real sure where Montana is.
#mtpol
If you are from Texas or Florida, do not come to Montana unless you are coming here to flee the right wing extremism in your own states. You people are ruining our state and we do not want you. You people are awful.
Former Liberian refugee and internatiomally famous beloved community advocate Wilmot Collins elected to 2nd term as Mayor of Helena, Montana in a landslide.
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Claim: “Gianforte doesn’t fly at taxpayer expense but instead on his own dime”
Fact check: In congress Gianforte voted to lower his own taxes in 2017 and allow private Jets to be written off completely, passing the bill onto taxpayers.
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Gianforte Claim: Administrative costs are too high to accept $10 million for hungry kids.
Fact check: The federal government would have paid for the administration and the distribution.
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Greg Gianforte/Hertz are proposing a sales tax. Revenue interim cmte proposal attached.
This regressive tax will hurt working Montanans.
We don't want to pay for Billionaires and corporations taxes.
Kendall Cotton and the Koch Brothers run Montana now.
#mtpol
Gianforte should build a border wall to keep the Nazis out of Montana!
Or he could just tell them they aren't wanted, but he welcomes them with open arms, donations, jobs.
Larkin McIntyre nazi from Bothell WA, arrested in Missoula Saturday
#mtpol
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A RESEARCH PAPER FROM 2021 CONCLUDES THAT UNIVERSAL FREE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS LOWER INFLATION AND FOOD COSTS FOR THE COMMUNITIES THAT IMPLEMENT THEM.
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Veterans are disgusted with Shady Sheehy's lies.
Who shot him?
Himself?
Aaron Flint?
Gumby?
Gianforte, Zinke and Daines endorsed Montana's George Santos. Pathological liar.
#mtpol
Gianforte's Republicans in the
#mtleg
jut turned down bipartisan child and school safety dollars to protect your kids.
Yes, it actually happened in Montana.
Vote them out!
#mtpol
Montana's national embarrassment
@GovGianforte
strikes again making national news by starving children.
Called out by Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack whose USDA offered $10 million dollars to Montana for hungry children.
#mtpol
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While most states have signed up for Summer P-EBT, AK, ID, IA, KS, MS, MO, MT, NH, SD & TX have not done so. I encourage these governors to enroll their states and ensure millions of children can receive nutritional benefits essential to our nation’s economic health and security.
Gianforte can choose to not reauthorize Medicaid expansion in 2025
He's eviscerated it, electing him and Sheehy would finish rural Montana off, killing towns, seniors, the Montana way of life
Don't vote Gianforte in 24 if you like having a hospital within 100 miles
#mtpol
SHADY SHEEHY has an impossible to keep track of list of lies, he even bought 3 cows and pretends to be a cowboy and then didn't pay his taxes on them.
Here's the running list, what is missing?
#mtpol
Montana ranks dead last for starting teacher salary.
Gianforte has failed our schools, teachers, students and Montana families more times than anyone can count.
#mtpol
Be careful out there Montana I guess all the millionaires Gianforte is importing to Montana have never seen a skiff of snow and are driving like a 4 year old on their first bike.
#mtpol
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No BS from ol BS:
Brian Schweitzer on Republicans scams to steal hardworking Montanans money and give it to huge corporations
"What they want is a sales tax; they want people to say that enough is enough and that this is an unfair tax system."
#mtpol
Did the
#mtnews
ever get an answer why public citizen number 1 in Montana, Greg Gianforte, doesn't have to tell us where he is, where his private jet is going, or release a public schedule?
Democracy is asking.
#mtpol
Secretary of State Jacobsen and two of her staff illegally donated to dark money supremacist court candidate James Brown by listing themselves as retired or homemaker
State Senator Greg Hertz did 2
Either they broke the law or Brown did in reporting it this way
#mtpol
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Gianforte massive property tax increase is forcing Montana families to leave the state so millionaires can buy up old family properties with cash purchases and paying more than it's worth.
This is reprehensible.
Listen to Deborah's story.
#mtpol
Big Gov Greg Gianforte's next-door neighbor fights back tears as Gianforte's $5,000 tax hike hits her home—a 70% jump. For billionaires like Gianforte, it's pocket change; for Montana families, it's a breaking point. Time for a governor who gets it.
BREAKING: ABORTION CLINIC ATTACK IN MONTANA
PLANNED PARENTHOID SHOT AT LAST NIGHT.
SUSPECT AT LARGE.
Gianforte, Knudsen and Republicans must denounce this.
This is terrorism.
Very scary times, my friends.
#mtpol
@TheAtlantic
@AnnieLowrey
The Atlantic should be ashamed, this is painfully untrue for so many of us here and to publish this unsubstantiated trash is journalistic malpractice.
The Republican platform in Montana
Gianforte Raised your property taxes this year
Sheehy will vote to outlaw abortion
Gianforte will institute a sales tax if reelected
Rosendale supports civil war
Gianforte will end Medicaid expansion if reelected
#mtpol
Gianforte asked for federal drought disaster declarations rather rudely
He's so incompetent he didn't know that
@SecVilsack
at the USDA had already done his job and declared the drought disasters
Gianforte is useless. Redundant. Unkind. Unhelpful
#mtpol
When Greg Gianforte took office Montana was 45th in the nation for average weekly wages.
Today, Montana is 48th in wages. Gianforte is failing in every way.
#mtpol
#mtleg
BREAKING-Gianforte on vacation in Europe, while Montana floods, shame!
No leadership
No one at helm who can effectively deal with disasters or even bother to be present. Everything being done by community members pitching in to help neighbors
h/t
@Dragonfly_Darcy
#mtpol
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Hey, Montana Press, Gianforte is in Charleston, SC today attending a party after the SC GOP presidential primary, perhaps ask who he's supporting and then follow up by making him discuss that person's policies.
Just a tip from your local journalism advocate 😉
#mtpol
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Fergus County Sheriff has released aerial photos from Denton at 11:00 this morning.
Photo credit: Sgt Jeremy Johnson
More on their Facebook page.
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#mtfire
Grifter Greg Gianforte lies about everything, he lied about blocking public access to a fishing hole, but the court records say otherwise.
Greg Gianforte is destroying Montana's rivers, fish populations and has proven he will block your Montana right of public access.
#mtpol
This is the definition of what we don't need in office, a two-timing, double-talking, gaslighting giant, Minnesota manipulator
Shady Sheehy
I think this is something Republicans, Democrats, and Independents can agree on...
#mtpol
Retweet if you're gonna vote for the party that wants to give fourth graders free school lunches instead of the one that wants to force them to have their rapists baby.
#mtpol
This is amazing.
The absolute gumption of Ryan Busse to run a tough campaign with everything on the table and no holds barred is a breath of fresh air from a Democrat.
#mtpol
I am going to be in Billings MT on Thursday 9/28 and I have an hour open.
@aaronflint
I’d love to drop by your studio and chat from 8-9am if you’d have me on.
Gianforte has stripped tens of thousands of Montanans of their Medicaid coverage – and with it, their access to essential health care.
Including children on CHP!
He's so outrageously immoral
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OUTRAGEEOUS! Gianforte owns land in Bozeman that he gets taxed as AG land.
Ag land is taxed at $55 an acre.
While Montanans look at the biggest tax increase in Montana's history.
#mtpol
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Zinke Rosendale supporting Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan has never once voted in support of a Farm Bill.
Jim Jordan tried to overthrow democracy
Jim Jordan covered up sexual abuse
Jim Jordan wants to shut the government down
Zinke Rosendale are cowards, idiots and criminals
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Today, short-acting Novo Nordisk insulins are listed to be negotiated by Medicare along with other diabetes drugs Jardiance, Januvia and Farxiga.
Prices will drop for those diabetics who need this to survive.
Tester saving lives.
Daines voted no.
#mtpol
Butte Mayor says Gianforte and
#mtleg
royally screwed cities, counties, and Montanans with property taxes.
Need to elect new Governor and legislators to fix it.
#mtpol
This is important
PragerU is a neofascist organization that is funded by fracking billionaire brothers
the Wilks Brothers
The Wilks Brothers are just like the Kochs, Murdochs, Mercers and Uihleins. They want to buy up Montana land and ruin our clean air and water
#mtpol