Response to Racicot-Brown endorsement

Buffoonery

Whatever credibility Mark Racicot and Bob Brown may have enjoyed years ago when they ran as Republicans (only to govern as progressives) they have completely forfeited by their unrecanted endorsement of Joe Biden for the presidency and its disastrous outcome.

Their recent attack piece on Ryan Zinke (Zinke enables threat to democracy, Oct. 10) is pure buffoonery and belongs in the same round file as Liz Cheney’s reputation.

The clear and present danger to democracy is Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice and its attempt to silence and persecute conservative, populist and pro-life Americans, not Donald J. Trump.

The citizens of western Montana need to follow the lead of their Wyoming neighbors. Elect Ryan Zinke.

— Michael Boharski, Kalispell

Bravo!

Regarding Marc Racicot and Bob Brown’s joint letter of Oct. 10: proof that integrity, truth, honor and character are still alive and well in these two Montana Republican statesmen. Bravo!

— Richard Schaus, Kalispell

Character attack

Marc Racicot and Bob Brown’s op-ed is one of the most sanctimonious public declarations of another person’s character that I have read. I have to temper such opinion with remembering that it was made by two ex-politicians and is a few weeks before the election and we peons need to be reminded of how rotten the opponents are. What the opponents believe is important to shout out but in the eyes of politicians that seems to be secondary to making the general public aware of how evil they are in comparison to themselves.

Even if the allegations against Ryan Zinke are true, they are like a teaspoon of water in an ocean compared to what we are confronted with from today’s Democratic Party. Do you two understand that most of us sense that our democracy has only one finger sticking out of the grave?

Elections: Monica Tranel’s party has no desire to devise a system where only citizens vote only once. They are though concerned about monitoring every penny in our bank account and everything on our personal computers.

Border: Presently, we are not a sovereign nation. Non-citizens are dictating border policy.

Justice: our system is broken.

Freedom of speech: taken from us every day and if Monica Tranel’s party has its way only one news outlet will prevail. And you two are obsessed with the evil of people not even in office.

I am 80 years of age. I have never witnessed a political party changing our nation as they are today while their news cronies proclaim all the evils that exist in other people not in power.

You state that, “Monica Tranel, may be a few clicks to the left of us on some issues.” In areas that really matter...not really.

— Bob Penna Kalispell

They’re at it again

Previous Montana Gov. Marc Racicot (1993-2001) and previous Montana Secretary of State (2001-2004) and Senate President (1994-1996) and lobbyist (1997) Bob Brown have earlier taken to these pages to campaign for changes in Montana voting laws and now to influence the upcoming elections.

Montanans, especially in Butte, vividly recall their previous influence in the catastrophic 1997 deregulation of electric power rammed through at the end of the legislative session which enabled the Montana Power Company to speedily begin selling off its now vastly more valuable assets and plunge the proceeds into becoming Touch America, a glamorous fiber-optic communication outfit pushed by Goldman-Sachs that went bankrupt in 2003. The decision to convert likely took place in 1996.

Three thousand Montanans were subsequently thrown out of work, their retirement plans were gutted, and electric bills from the new out-of-state owners went through the roof. Depression, alcoholism, spousal abuse and suicides followed closely.

Before asking Montanans to consider their latest proposals, perhaps these two politicians might first formally apologize to the people of our State for their roles in this historical debacle. Particularly the folks in Butte deserve no less.

— Andy Palchak, Kalispell

Dems are the real threat

In a recent op-ed, a former Republican Governor of Montana and a former Republican Secretary of State both endorsed a liberal Democrat for the western Congressional district.

Supporting Democrats means the support of the following: inflationary monetary policies, destruction of our energy and fuel supplies, historic national debt, a war on police and law enforcement, rising crime levels, limitations on your liberty, weaponizing the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the IRS, reducing parental control of your children’s education, destroying the integrity of our elections, the sexual mutilation of our children, and open borders and illegal immigration.

With apologies to Thomas Paine, these two members of the narcissistic elite are “nothing better than the principal ruffians of some restless gang.”

“In America, the Law is King, and in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.”

Supporting a Democrat means that one is supporting the most lawless administration in our history and encouraging the perpetuation of the above stated policies at the national and State levels.

To quote Thomas Paine again, “The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflection.”

Former Democrat Representative Tulsi Gabbard recently fled the Democrat party. Several local Democrat candidates are distancing themselves from the Biden Administration in a futile attempt to persuade voters in Flathead County that it is OK to vote for a Democrat. They promise everything and deliver nothing. Do not listen to the siren call of those who would tell us that Democrats are good people with innovative ideas. They do not have good ideas. Their ideas would destroy the values upon which this nation was founded. The ideas that the aforementioned Republican politicians claimed that they were supporting is the opposite of what Democrats are implementing.

It is self-evident that here in Flathead County, every Republican must be elected. All those who would truly support Montana values, liberty, private property, and limited government dedicated to protecting the People’s God-given rights must vote Republican on Nov. 8.

The real threat to our representative republic is the Democrats in sheep clothing hiding their predatory and tyrannical instincts.

And once again, quoting Thomas Paine, “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.” Save Montana and America, Vote Republican!

— Rep. John Fuller, R-Whitefish