Letters to the editor Oct. 26
Holmquist endorses Abell
Brad Abell has deep roots in Flathead County. He cherishes our community and all that it has to offer. He is a family man that has worked for the same employer for almost 30 years. He’s a hunter that strongly believes in our 2nd Amendment.
Brad is a hard-working conservative candidate that will represent our community well.
Please join me in voting for Flathead County Commissioner candidate Brad Abell.
—Pam Holmquist, Flathead County Commissioner
Gianforte in it for those rich guys
My dad worked for Plum Creek for 40 years. Plum Creek owned a lot of land out west of Kalispell. That land and roads were all private property. People from the valley treated that private property as if it were public land, that they had an entitlement to go hunting on, four-wheeling, biking, etc. It was bad enough that people would cut the locks off gates so they could drive down closed roads, thinking they had some “right” to be there that the government was infringing. People would shout loudly for private property rights and then shout loudly for their own right to access someone else’s private property.
Those locked roads had nothing to do with government. Hunting was only allowed because Plum Creek allowed it (counseled by my dad and other foresters who hunt). But if they decided not to allow hunting on their property, suddenly, people around the valley would discover that they had no actual right to be there.
Gianforte as governor would mean that a lot of people who hunt and fish discover that their favorite places are someone else’s private property. There will be fences across streams, and locks on roads, in places you have fished and hunted for decades.
Gianforte will use private property rights to get rid of the high-water fishing access that is foundational to generations of Montanans. He’ll talk about protecting private property rights. That is just a code to say that you are not welcome there.
Once those access rights get reduced, they don’t come back. It will hunting and fishing for the super rich who visit the state once a year. Gianforte is in it for those rich guys, to help them keep you off their private property. Voting for Gianforte is voting away your kids’ Montana inheritance.
—Holly Andersen, Kalispell
A new low for Democrats
The Flathead County Republican Party strongly condemns the Montana Democrat Party’s recent media attack against the Republican Party’s House District 3 candidate Braxton Mitchell and former Republican HD 3 candidate Taylor Rose.
Sinking to a new low for Montana politics, the attack attempts to portray these honorable and patriotic Montanans as extremists and white supremacists. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Montanans are residents of a small town with long streets that retains its’ small-town values of honesty, civility, courtesy and kindness. Libeling and accusing someone of racism is the last resort of scoundrels. Real Montanans do not believe that the “ends justify the means” in our social discourse. Montanans have always enjoyed vigorous political discourse and certainly there are wide policy differences between Republicans and Democrats. But we have always in the past kept the arguments in the policy arena.
The Flathead County Republican Central Committee calls upon all true Montanans to reject these latest tactics by outside forces and preserve the Montana we know and love.
—John Fuller, Chairman of the Flathead County Republican Central Committee
Gianforte’s failure to respond
This past winter, I emailed Montana representatives every month with questions on alternative energy incentives, health care, public lands and protections for the environment. Sen. Jon Tester replied citing bills pending or recently passed on the particular issue. Senator Daines recounted the issue but did not refer to any actions pending.
Congressman Gianforte responded with a letter on what a fine job he has been doing without any reference to my question. I received this identical letter from Congressman Gianforte for four months. On the fifth month, when emailing Montana representatives, I copied and pasted Congressman Gianforte’s standard response letter, then sent it to Gianforte with a specific request for him to respond with an answer to my question and to please not send another letter again. Well, he did send the same standard letter as his response.
Therefore, I know-:
Congressman Gianforte does not listen to citizens.
Congressman Gianforte does not read his emails from citizens.
Congressman Gianforte does not represent Montanans.
Congressman Gianforte cannot be our governor.
If Congressman Gianforte cannot listen to us, we cannot vote for him.
—LuAnn Landwehr, Kalispell
Marxism or freedom?
This election you will decide if you wish to retain the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution or the principles of Marxism. Simply, Marxism is a political and economic society controlled by workers: “unions”. Socialism is the mechanism to achieve the “Marxists Theory” through a welfare state where everything is considered a “guaranteed right” and paid for by taxpayer funding.
Unlike California Congressman Adam Schiff who said the Trump-Russian collusion was in plain sight, in their own words the Democrats have stated their beliefs on their websites or documents. Google “Biden-Sanders unity task force recommendations” and read in their own words.
Biden may say he is the Democratic Party; however that party does not exist anymore as it has been replaced by the “People’s Party.” Google “People’s Charter” and then “signers” at top and on the bottom for organizations signatories for SIEU, etc.
If you value your children and especially your grandchildren your vote for Bullock or Biden will fundamentally destroy America. Once you destroy something you can’t undo it like on your computer.
—Walt Rucinski, Kalispell
Daines is hypocritical
In Sen. Steve Daines’ recent campaign ads, he and his spokesmen decry “the liberal mob” who is supposedly responsible for recent rioting, looting and property destruction.
Daines and his minions don’t differentiate between the lawless individuals who regularly infiltrate many legitimate public protests and then commit these acts. Daines and his supporters simply equate these bad elements with anyone who disagrees with them, including legitimate Black Lives Matter protesters, progressive and Democratic political figures, mothers and families, retired persons, veterans and anyone else Daines needs to trample in his frantic campaign.
Daines nor any of his high-minded spokespersons ever decry the very real threat of right-wing hate groups, para-military militia groups, anti-government extremists, racist groups and neo-Nazis that have openly threatened law-abiding citizens for decades. Some actively advocate overthrow of the federal government, have threatened or physically harmed federal employees, bombed federal offices, destroyed public property and incited their supporters to commit such crimes. Consider recent arrests of planned kidnappers of the governors in Michigan and Virginia. One can imagine how those actions might have ended.
So where are Steve Daines and his supporters in denouncing these right-wing extremists? Listen. Their absolute silence is deafening.
—Dale Becker, Polson
Court-packing Bullock
Governor Bullock has revealed his true nature by plainly stating he favors packing the Supreme Court. Adding numerous seats and filling them with far-left radical activists to achieve a decades long majority would fundamentally break our system of checks-and-balances, transforming the court into a legislative body intent on executing the Democrat’s bitter and vindictive Socialist/ANTIFA/BLM agenda.
Under such a court, kiss your Bill of Rights goodbye. The Second, then the First, then the rest. Your choices will be total submission or the Gulag, no barriers to the transformation of the U.S. into a totalitarian state will remain.
Bullock’s embrace of this extremist tactic is a disqualifying act. It renders him unfit to represent Montana in the Senate and we must tell him so by re-electing Senator Steve Daines. Our Constitutional rights, our Republic, and our future depend upon it.
Big Tech’s ChiCom style censorship of emerging news about the Biden family’s extensive corruption issues is just a taste of what will be should the Democrats take power. Defy them and you’ll be blocked, banned, or otherwise unpersoned. Vote accordingly from the top to the bottom of your ballot.
—Ron McClellan, Polson