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Gianforte's position on Trump's is extra elusive. About four searches, each including his name and Trump's, only reminded me of Trump's praise of Gianforte's assault on a journalist. That one story. A separate search revealed his conviction and sentence. For now, after creating this post. I'm leaving his position on Trump's big lie to you. 
"At least he didn't split after the fact. Depending on how much of an asshole he is with maga's, I'd cut him a little slack here. If he's one with the big lie then Fuck him."
Finally after dropping Trump's name from the search i got this opinion piece for us
The real election fraud in Montana
Gianforte, Knudsen have not ceased politics and gotten down to the business of governing
Darrell Ehrlick October 21, 2021 4:55 am
Mark Berryman and Gov. Greg Gianforte pose for a photo together in Richland County this week. (Courtesy Mark Berryman/
The Sidney Herald)
Montana, we’ve been duped.
There has been election fraud, just not the sort that has made headlines in Georgia or Arizona. And, the kind of fraud we’ve experienced has nothing to do with the ballot box or ballots needing microscopic attention or even the Cyber Ninjas.
Montanans were promised a governor and attorney general capable of leadership, governing and fulfilling the positions outlined by the state’s constitution.
What we have received from the governor instead is vacuous, absentee leadership that makes strong statements on national cable news networks, but remains too chicken to answer questions from the reporters or even face a public that’s not hand-picked and carefully selected .. https://dailymontanan.com/2021/09/30/a-town-hall-in-sidney-or-not/ .. for adoration and well-placed applause.
Montanans need leadership from an attorney general who is dedicated to protecting residents and consumers, not engaged in conspiracy theories, fighting causes that help politicians more than they benefit Montanans, and using the position as a cudgel to intimidate, bully and punish.
We elected Greg Gianforte and Austin Knudsen to fulfill roles and duties that have been well defined by the state’s constitution and have been established by more than a century of history. Instead, we have received frauds – two men who have not done their duty or job, while Montanans suffer and die.
There just is no other nicer, more diplomatic way to say it.
While the governor and the Legislature neutered the power of public health boards,
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[Insert: "Where’d that come from? "
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10 new state laws shift power over elections to partisan entities
[...]
And in Montana, then-Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, used his emergency powers to authorize counties to conduct all-mail elections for the June primary and November election. Every county opted to do this in June, and about 80% of the state's counties, including the eight most populous, did in November. But in April, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law a bill barring the governor from changing election procedures unless the legislature signs off on it.
P - "This is unprecedented in ways that I couldn't have even dreamed up myself," Audrey Kline, the national policy director for the National Vote At Home Institute, told ABC News. "It does feel like there's a backlash, and there's really a misunderstanding about how elections really work."
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=167434865]
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they also schemed to pass a law that outlawed vaccination mandates while speaking out of the other side of their mouths about the efficacy of those same vaccines. Is it in any wonder Montana has struggled to vaccinate its population when its own leaders have so severely undermined the message?
Gianforte has tried to make himself the last line of defense in personal freedom, insisting Montana will not accept even something as basic as masks, let alone vaccine mandates. But personal freedom isn’t personal if you can spread a deadly disease to the next person. That’s not freedom, it’s a viral bomb that Gianforte has been happy to watch explode as Montana on Tuesday became the hotspot for COVID-19 outbreaks .. https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-10-13/active-covid-hospitalizations-reach-record-high-in-montana .. in the nation, and the number of COVID cases reported after vaccines rolled out exceeds the number of cases before vaccines were available. All of this has happened on Gianforte’s watch, as he continues to duck questions from the press while touring Montana counties, speaking to carefully selected audience members so as to not upset the obviously delicate feelings of a man who is probably best known for slugging a reporter.
Meanwhile, Knudsen is busy signing onto politically motivated lawsuits about abortion half a country away .. https://ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/other-gop-states-urge-court-to-let-texas-abortion-law-stand/article_700a4581-8bc3-547b-8c94-da6f21e7e77d.html , or sending snotty messages .. https://dailymontanan.com/2021/04/12/ag-to-supreme-court-legislature-will-not-abide-court-order/ .. to the Montana Supreme Court, neither of which help Montanans.
There are legitimate public justice issues that need addressing: The continuing problem of drugs in our communities, both opioids and methamphetamine. Our foster child care system is overwhelmed by sheer numbers of needy kids. Our prisons have a higher percentage of people of color, but that hardly seems to register with the department of (ahem) justice. And, the public defenders office is in crisis in Yellowstone County as Judge Donald Harris has held it in contempt for not providing adequate services .. https://dailymontanan.com/2021/09/15/public-defenders-air-caseload-frustrations-to-legislative-committee/ .. to represent those who cannot afford an attorney.
The Attorney General has done little to address these issues and continues to thwart any questions from the prying pens and keyboards of reporters.
On Tuesday, Holly Michels and Seaborn Larson produced a bombshell report .. https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/helena-hospital-says-doctors-threatened-by-public-officials-over-ivermectin-request/article_67a1b3ce-2323-5ea9-9723-786c6fa81395.html .. that showed Austin Knudsen used his power as the attorney general and leveraged the Montana Highway Patrol against medical providers at St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena to bully, coerce and attempt to cajole the healthcare center into using ivermectin on a COVID-19 patient, despite medical staff’s refusal because the drug is not just ineffective against the virus, but also can be toxic .. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/04/1034217306/ivermectin-overdose-exposure-cases-poison-control-centers .
And as much as Knudsen and Gianforte must be responsible for their own actions and inaction, Montana voters and residents also have a corollary responsibility.
We – not all of us, of course – elected these men. And, we misplaced our trust in them.
We must hold them accountable. That means calling. That means writing. And that means asking tough questions and demanding real answers that aren’t generated by a form letter or some poor intern.
Journalists like me can report. We can detail, describe and even opine. We can object and sharpen our editorial pens, but we’re just another group for Gianforte and Knudsen to denounce, ignore or undermine. It’s now up to you, too.
The silence or lack of pressure is tacit approval of their actions. Until they are pushed back by the power of public perception, they will continue to insult the judiciary, bully doctors and speak about the sanctity of life while standing by watching people die of a mostly preventable pandemic.
During the past year, I have been adamant: This isn’t the kind of Montana I grew up in, nor is it one I think my grandparents would recognize. These seem inconsistent with our values, which include taking care of each other, respecting doctors and judges, and setting aside politics after an election and getting down to the task of governing.
They may be failing us, but we will be failing ourselves if we don’t expect, demand and hold them to be better.
https://dailymontanan.com/2021/10/21/the-real-election-fraud-in-montana/
Below is the evolution to the above.
Trump: No regrets for praising Greg Gianforte for body-slamming reporter
Trump was in Montana to stump for Gianforte and Matt Rosendale.
ByMeridith Mcgraw October 20, 2018, 8:55 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/montana-rally-president-trump-praises-greg-gianforte-body/story?id=58596529
GOP quiet on Trump praising Rep Greg Gianforte for assaulting reporter, amid Khashoggi crisis and criticism of alleged Democratic ‘mob’ tactics
Published Fri, Oct 19 20181:40 PM EDTUpdated Fri, Oct 19 20184:20 PM EDT
Kevin Breuninger @KevinWilliamB
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/gop-quiet-on-trump-praising-greg-gianforte-for-assaulting-reporter.html
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte Is Sentenced in Assault on Reporter
[...]
By Christopher Mele June 13, 2017
Greg Gianforte, a Montana Republican, was sentenced on Monday to 40 hours of community service and 20 hours of anger
management classes for assaulting a reporter the night before he won a seat in the House of Representatives last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/greg-gianforte-montana-republican-body-slams-reporter.html
Donald Trump Applauds Win As Greg Gianforte Apologizes For “Response” To “Liberal Journalist” Trumpcare Question
By Lisa de Moraes May 26, 2017 8:21am
[...]
Only after winning Montana’s special election for the state’s one seat in the House of Representatives did Greg Gianforte apologize for allegedly body slamming a reporter who had asked him a question about House-passed Trumpcare legislation.
https://deadline.com/2017/05/donald-trump-greg-gianforte-apologizes-attack-reporter-1202103014/
"At least he didn't split after the fact. Depending on how much of an asshole he is with maga's, I'd cut him a little slack here. If he's one with the big lie then Fuck him."
Finally after dropping Trump's name from the search i got this opinion piece for us
The real election fraud in Montana
Gianforte, Knudsen have not ceased politics and gotten down to the business of governing
Darrell Ehrlick October 21, 2021 4:55 am
Mark Berryman and Gov. Greg Gianforte pose for a photo together in Richland County this week. (Courtesy Mark Berryman/
The Sidney Herald)
Montana, we’ve been duped.
There has been election fraud, just not the sort that has made headlines in Georgia or Arizona. And, the kind of fraud we’ve experienced has nothing to do with the ballot box or ballots needing microscopic attention or even the Cyber Ninjas.
Montanans were promised a governor and attorney general capable of leadership, governing and fulfilling the positions outlined by the state’s constitution.
What we have received from the governor instead is vacuous, absentee leadership that makes strong statements on national cable news networks, but remains too chicken to answer questions from the reporters or even face a public that’s not hand-picked and carefully selected .. https://dailymontanan.com/2021/09/30/a-town-hall-in-sidney-or-not/ .. for adoration and well-placed applause.
Montanans need leadership from an attorney general who is dedicated to protecting residents and consumers, not engaged in conspiracy theories, fighting causes that help politicians more than they benefit Montanans, and using the position as a cudgel to intimidate, bully and punish.
We elected Greg Gianforte and Austin Knudsen to fulfill roles and duties that have been well defined by the state’s constitution and have been established by more than a century of history. Instead, we have received frauds – two men who have not done their duty or job, while Montanans suffer and die.
There just is no other nicer, more diplomatic way to say it.
While the governor and the Legislature neutered the power of public health boards,
----
[Insert: "Where’d that come from? "
----------------------------------------------
10 new state laws shift power over elections to partisan entities
[...]
And in Montana, then-Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, used his emergency powers to authorize counties to conduct all-mail elections for the June primary and November election. Every county opted to do this in June, and about 80% of the state's counties, including the eight most populous, did in November. But in April, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law a bill barring the governor from changing election procedures unless the legislature signs off on it.
P - "This is unprecedented in ways that I couldn't have even dreamed up myself," Audrey Kline, the national policy director for the National Vote At Home Institute, told ABC News. "It does feel like there's a backlash, and there's really a misunderstanding about how elections really work."
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=167434865]
----
they also schemed to pass a law that outlawed vaccination mandates while speaking out of the other side of their mouths about the efficacy of those same vaccines. Is it in any wonder Montana has struggled to vaccinate its population when its own leaders have so severely undermined the message?
Gianforte has tried to make himself the last line of defense in personal freedom, insisting Montana will not accept even something as basic as masks, let alone vaccine mandates. But personal freedom isn’t personal if you can spread a deadly disease to the next person. That’s not freedom, it’s a viral bomb that Gianforte has been happy to watch explode as Montana on Tuesday became the hotspot for COVID-19 outbreaks .. https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-10-13/active-covid-hospitalizations-reach-record-high-in-montana .. in the nation, and the number of COVID cases reported after vaccines rolled out exceeds the number of cases before vaccines were available. All of this has happened on Gianforte’s watch, as he continues to duck questions from the press while touring Montana counties, speaking to carefully selected audience members so as to not upset the obviously delicate feelings of a man who is probably best known for slugging a reporter.
Meanwhile, Knudsen is busy signing onto politically motivated lawsuits about abortion half a country away .. https://ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/other-gop-states-urge-court-to-let-texas-abortion-law-stand/article_700a4581-8bc3-547b-8c94-da6f21e7e77d.html , or sending snotty messages .. https://dailymontanan.com/2021/04/12/ag-to-supreme-court-legislature-will-not-abide-court-order/ .. to the Montana Supreme Court, neither of which help Montanans.
There are legitimate public justice issues that need addressing: The continuing problem of drugs in our communities, both opioids and methamphetamine. Our foster child care system is overwhelmed by sheer numbers of needy kids. Our prisons have a higher percentage of people of color, but that hardly seems to register with the department of (ahem) justice. And, the public defenders office is in crisis in Yellowstone County as Judge Donald Harris has held it in contempt for not providing adequate services .. https://dailymontanan.com/2021/09/15/public-defenders-air-caseload-frustrations-to-legislative-committee/ .. to represent those who cannot afford an attorney.
The Attorney General has done little to address these issues and continues to thwart any questions from the prying pens and keyboards of reporters.
On Tuesday, Holly Michels and Seaborn Larson produced a bombshell report .. https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/helena-hospital-says-doctors-threatened-by-public-officials-over-ivermectin-request/article_67a1b3ce-2323-5ea9-9723-786c6fa81395.html .. that showed Austin Knudsen used his power as the attorney general and leveraged the Montana Highway Patrol against medical providers at St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena to bully, coerce and attempt to cajole the healthcare center into using ivermectin on a COVID-19 patient, despite medical staff’s refusal because the drug is not just ineffective against the virus, but also can be toxic .. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/04/1034217306/ivermectin-overdose-exposure-cases-poison-control-centers .
And as much as Knudsen and Gianforte must be responsible for their own actions and inaction, Montana voters and residents also have a corollary responsibility.
We – not all of us, of course – elected these men. And, we misplaced our trust in them.
We must hold them accountable. That means calling. That means writing. And that means asking tough questions and demanding real answers that aren’t generated by a form letter or some poor intern.
Journalists like me can report. We can detail, describe and even opine. We can object and sharpen our editorial pens, but we’re just another group for Gianforte and Knudsen to denounce, ignore or undermine. It’s now up to you, too.
The silence or lack of pressure is tacit approval of their actions. Until they are pushed back by the power of public perception, they will continue to insult the judiciary, bully doctors and speak about the sanctity of life while standing by watching people die of a mostly preventable pandemic.
During the past year, I have been adamant: This isn’t the kind of Montana I grew up in, nor is it one I think my grandparents would recognize. These seem inconsistent with our values, which include taking care of each other, respecting doctors and judges, and setting aside politics after an election and getting down to the task of governing.
They may be failing us, but we will be failing ourselves if we don’t expect, demand and hold them to be better.
https://dailymontanan.com/2021/10/21/the-real-election-fraud-in-montana/
Below is the evolution to the above.
Trump: No regrets for praising Greg Gianforte for body-slamming reporter
Trump was in Montana to stump for Gianforte and Matt Rosendale.
ByMeridith Mcgraw October 20, 2018, 8:55 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/montana-rally-president-trump-praises-greg-gianforte-body/story?id=58596529
GOP quiet on Trump praising Rep Greg Gianforte for assaulting reporter, amid Khashoggi crisis and criticism of alleged Democratic ‘mob’ tactics
Published Fri, Oct 19 20181:40 PM EDTUpdated Fri, Oct 19 20184:20 PM EDT
Kevin Breuninger @KevinWilliamB
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/gop-quiet-on-trump-praising-greg-gianforte-for-assaulting-reporter.html
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte Is Sentenced in Assault on Reporter
[...]
By Christopher Mele June 13, 2017
Greg Gianforte, a Montana Republican, was sentenced on Monday to 40 hours of community service and 20 hours of anger
management classes for assaulting a reporter the night before he won a seat in the House of Representatives last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/greg-gianforte-montana-republican-body-slams-reporter.html
Donald Trump Applauds Win As Greg Gianforte Apologizes For “Response” To “Liberal Journalist” Trumpcare Question
By Lisa de Moraes May 26, 2017 8:21am
[...]
Only after winning Montana’s special election for the state’s one seat in the House of Representatives did Greg Gianforte apologize for allegedly body slamming a reporter who had asked him a question about House-passed Trumpcare legislation.
https://deadline.com/2017/05/donald-trump-greg-gianforte-apologizes-attack-reporter-1202103014/
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