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US News: If Gianforte wins MT primary, a Democrat will likely be MT governor.

November 14, 2019 December 1, 2019 / 1 Comment / Republicans

US News October 30, 2019 link Montana: Open seat (Democrat Steve Bullock is term-limited) Montana is a red state, but the Democrats have held the governorship since winning the 2004 election, and the open seat created by presidential candidate Bullock’s departure has Republicans primed for a takeover that could enable enactment of a largely stalled conservative …

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Wildfires seem unstoppable, but they can be prevented

August 12, 2018 August 12, 2018 / Leave a Comment / Republicans

By RYAN ZINKE Ryan Zinke, a Whitefish Republican who previously served as a state senator and Montana’s congressman, is the U.S. secretary of the interior. The flames of the Ferguson Fire in California have become the latest symbols of a seemingly perennial challenge of fighting fires in the West. I just returned from the Ferguson Fire …

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The conservative case for the CSKT water compact

July 29, 2018 August 1, 2019 / Leave a Comment / CSKT Compact Description

by Cory Swanson, Guest opinion, Daily Inter Lake July 29, 2018. In 2015, the Montana Legislature ratified the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ water compact with Montana, which settled all water rights claimed by the tribes under the 1855 Hellgate Treaty. This was the culmination of a multi-year negotiation process between Montana’s Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission …

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A Belief Statement by Rebekah Mercer

February 17, 2018 December 3, 2018 / Principles

By Rebekah Mercer, as published in the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 14, 2018 6:58 p.m. ET I support U.S. generosity, decentralized power, evidence-based science, and open discourse. Over the past 18 months, I have been the subject of intense speculation and public scrutiny, in large part because of the philanthropic investments of the Mercer Family Foundation …

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Montana Supreme Court upholds CSKT Compact

November 10, 2017 August 1, 2019 / 4 Comments / CSKT Compact Legal

by Dr. Ed Berry They lost – as I said they would – when the Montana Supreme Court heard their case. Montana’s right-wing “tea party” Republicans fought the Water Compact every step of the way. They claimed it was “unconstitutional.” They claimed it would give Montana’s water to the Indians. They claimed it was unfair. …

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President Trump’s Executive Order on Energy Independence and Economic Growth

March 28, 2017 December 3, 2018 / 5 Comments / President Trump

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2017 EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – PROMOTING Energy Independence AND Economic Growth By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as …

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The Story of Montana’s Last Indian Water Compact

February 14, 2017 August 1, 2019 / 6 Comments / CSKT Compact Description

by Dr. Edwin Berry The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact may be the most important and controversial political issue in Montana’s history. This Montana story is not just about the Compact. This story is about the split in the Republican Party. Before November 2014, I opposed the Compact because I followed my conservative …

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How “Montana’s Last Indian Water Compact” explains the Republican Party

February 13, 2017 September 8, 2019 / 1 Comment / CSKT Compact Description

by Dr. Edwin Berry “Montana’s Last Indian Water Compact: The Truth about the Compact and the Republican Party” is available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon. The story of Montana’s Last Indian Water Compact reveals, like no other true story, the nature of the split in the Republican Party. This story needs to be told, and …

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Inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States of America

January 20, 2017 December 3, 2018 / 12 Comments / President Trump

President Trump’s Inaugural Speech: Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the …

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