Steve Daines and Zhang DejiangMontana's junior Senator is Steve Daines, the former Montana state chairman for Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign. Before that he worked for Proctor & Gamble in China where his specialty was opening new factories that outsourced U.S. jobs to China and other low wage Asian countries. He's a dull, plodding backbencher and predictable rubber-stamp who's made no waves...
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: America keeps the cannabis coming as laws changing countrywide; "blessing boxes" are popping up to help a neighbor; more people are keeping bees and disaster brings out the best.
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: America keeps the cannabis coming as laws changing countrywide; "blessing boxes" are popping up to help a neighbor; more people are keeping bees and disaster brings out the best.
For the past 42 years, Yellowstone grizzly bears have been protected under the Endangered Species Act. But now the U.S. Department of the Interior, citing a rebound in the bear’s population, says it will end these protections and make the states responsible for tracking the animals’ numbers again. [1]
The agency says the rule, announced on 22 June 2017, will take effect 30 days after it is published.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in a statement:
On May 25, Libertarian candidate Mark Wicks won six percent of the vote in Montana's special election for the state's only U.S. House seat. His vote fell shy of beating Republican Greg Gianforte’s seven point lead over Democrat Rob Quist, but the fact that Libertarians are regularly pushing up against, or exceeding, margins of victory in U.S. Senate, U.S. House, gubernatorial, and even presidential races makes their proposals and their voters impossible to ignore.
1. Republicans cannot coast to re-election even in districts where they have had big majorities.2. Republicans have a lot of money to spend, and are being forced to spend it in those districts.3. The pressure of unexpected competition, and unwelcome questions about taking healthcare away from low income people, tend to provoke displays of Republicans' dark side.4. The Democratic establishment’s small and late funding of progressive nominees slows and reduces the pressure on Republicans.5. Montana Democratic nominee Rob Quist deserves our thanks for a valiant ef
Today's the day. A quarter million people have already voted in Montana but whatever analysis of that available shows that neither side has any advantage so far in the early voting. [For comparison's sake-- even if it's an apples-to-oranges comparison-- the June 6 special election in CA-34 has had 14,820 early votes and the expected total for the entire race is between 40 and 45,000.] This is going to be close and it's totally about getting out the vote. So, if you're in Montana, or you know anyone in Montana...
A new poll of GA-06 voters is a dire warning to congressional Republicans. Paul Ryan's SuperPAC has put more money into the campaign on behalf of Karen Handel than any outside group has ever spent on any congressional race in history. And those millions and millions of dollars appear to have been wasted as Jon Ossoff has pulled ahead:
