🚨The 1st bill from the ’s Slate of Hate is an extreme ban on LGBTQ+ rights & freedoms. SB99 criminalizes gender-affirming care, the latest ex. of GOP intruding on private health decisions. Testify against it by 5pm THUR.
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Imagine throwing a fit over a commitment to “responsibility, fairness, and freedom” for women, Nice job, Rep. Sue Vinton.
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Reminder that the “the largest tax cut in our state’s history” that is touting disproportionately benefits the wealthiest 1% while leaving median-income Montanans with about $70.
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All of our tax proposals are rooted in a simple philosophy: hardworking Montanans should keep more of what they earn. We’re working with the legislature to provide Montanans with the largest tax cut in our state’s history.
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Helena, we have lift off! Ticket sales for the 45th annual Mansfield Metcalf dinner have officially launched! Join of Arizona, , and all your Democrat friends for a night that is out of this world.
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Reminder: Tickets go on sale for the 45th annual Mansfield Metcalf Dinner TOMORROW. Our keynote speaker is out of this world! Join us and of Arizona, , and Montana Democratic leaders for a night you won’t forget.
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Democrats were busy this week, fighting for families and young people and workers. (They weren’t too busy to meet with students from across the state, though!) #mtpol
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Phalen mused that judges might be too biased by a woman’s appearance to make fair decision in a divorce trial. For more info on his RADICAL legislation:
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SHOCKING. In emails retrieved by the MT Free Press, Rep. Phalen reveals his radical and backwards ideas about women & men, before introducing two tyrannical anti-adultery bills (HB 204 & 237). Is this the GOP agenda? #mtpol
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Your periodical reminder that failed to distribute rental assistance in MT & lost $98 mil in federal funding.
Now he HALTS state rental assistance because of “diminished funds.” 12k renters may lose their housing. #mtpol
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.’s unwillingness to take the housing crisis seriously has resulted in severe staffing shortages, leading to a backlog of application reviews & delayed disbursement of funds. Renters shouldn’t have to lose their homes bc of his inaction.
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Use it or lose it: As of Sept, the state had failed to distribute almost ⅓ of the $350M in Emergency Rental Assistance that MT received from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and were forced to return the funds to the federal government.
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He may have gone to space, but he’s never seen anything like Mansfield-Metcalf in Montana. I’ll see you there, !
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We are honored to welcome AZ Senator Kelly at the Montana Democrat's 45th Mansfield Metcalf Dinner on March 4th.
Tickets go on sale TUESDAY.
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We are honored to welcome AZ Senator Kelly at the Montana Democrat's 45th Mansfield Metcalf Dinner on March 4th.
Tickets go on sale TUESDAY.
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LIFT OFF! 🚀 We are honored to welcome AZ Senator Kelly at the Montana Democrat's 45th Mansfield Metcalf Dinner on March 4th.
Tickets go on sale TUESDAY.
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"Gross said the Senate Judiciary proceedings went 'off the rails' and represented 'a breakdown of decorum and civility' that she hoped would not be repeated in future hearings. Those concerns were echoed by Sen.Minority Leader Pat Flowers." montanafreepress.org/2023/01/17/fir #mtleg #mtpol
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The debilitating teacher shortage crisis is unacceptable: for our students, families, and teachers. This would be fixable if only Montana’s starting wages for educators weren’t the lowest in the nation under .
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Common Sense: HB233 will require property owners to refund rental application fees if an applicant is not chosen. Bill sponsor Rep. says “Some spend more than a month’s rent just hunting for a place that they’ll never get to live in.”
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The self-proclaimed Freedom Caucus have pocketed $4,634,574 in federal funds to buoy their businesses. Now they’re trying to pull up the ladder behind them. They are extremists, committed to hobbling a gov't that they’ve benefited from themselves. #mtpol
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The Freedom Caucus & are holding an event laying out their reckless agenda to strip Montanans of their individual freedoms, invade our right to privacy, destroy MT's public institutions under the guise of ‘cutting government,’ & denounce the federal government.
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Sen. Glimm voted NO on using pandemic relief funds for a childcare program, questioning “the wisdom of “pouring” 1-time payment into child care without having enough data about working parents,” saying the $ “artificially propped up an industry.”
He got over $10k from PPP.
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Members of the ‘Freedom Caucus’ have railed against these programs in the past. Rep. Phalen called the pandemic relief funds “fiscally irresponsible,” all-too-happily taking over $50,000 in two PPP loans (both forgiven in full). 🤔
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According to public records, Freedom Caucus members have pocketed at least $3,997,335 in USDA Farm Subsidies and more than $637,239 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
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🚨THREAD: MT’s “Freedom Caucus” led by extremist Republicans advocating for so-called ‘small government’ & waging a war on individual privacy, have benefited from almost $5 MILLION from government programs. #mtpol
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Ed Butcher has been appointed to take over Flament's vacated seat. The same Ed who said some Native American representatives have “room-temp IQs”
By appointing Butcher, the MTGOP signals that racism is perfectly acceptable in their caucus #mtpol
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Per House GOP, former Rep (and legistats publisher) Ed Butcher has been appointed to take over the seat vacated by Rep. Doug Flament. Here's some background on Butcher and his website from a while back montanafreepress.org/2019/04/01/thi #mtleg #mtpol
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on looking to Dr. King "to not become silent about the things that matter, to recognize disparities and indifference, and lift every Montanan up to build a better Montana."
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Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed … that all men are created equal.”
Today Montana Democrats continue his legacy by fighting for equality throughout Montana and beyond.
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Our nation is only as secure as our food supply—and whether it's multinational corporations consolidating the ag industry or foreign adversaries buying up farmland, our food security is at risk. We have got to act this Congress to save family farm agriculture.
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Why is @MTGOP refusing to honor Chief Earl Old Person and deny his profound contributions to MT? Republicans should give his memory the honor it’s due and allow a fair vote & debate on SB 120.
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Starting Jan. 17th, vets in crisis will be able to go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for emergency mental health care at no cost thanks to the Veterans’ COMPACT Act—a package of critical mental health provisions backed by Chairman
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⚠️Bill alert
MT is facing an elderly care crisis: We need to pay providers a competitive rate or nursing homes will continue to close. Attend the hearing for HB2 to advocate for increasing provider rates Friday, Jan. 13 at 8 AM or submit testimony here:
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🚨 and just made it easier to give away public lands. One of their 1st votes in the House removes barriers to transferring fed. lands.
So, they fly off to DC and forget their Montana values?? #mtpol #mtnews
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