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In todays Billings Gazette, there was an article, pointing out that the Good Guv (Brian Schweitzer) has added 1,000 full-time state jobs since he's took office.
Here's the link;
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_167ef799-7962-5a63-8035-aaa5a3ffc40d.html
This isn't news.
Roy Brown pointed this fact out, as well as the fact that Schweitzer increased State spending 40% also.
And it's not like these positions were actually needed, because the State functioned just fine before.
These levels of State Government are not sustainable, and lowering them are going to hurt.
As I've said before - elections have consequences.
Political Astroturfing - definition;
Political advertising, or a public relations campaign that has been specifically planned by an organization, but is disguised as public, spontaneous behavior, such as a 'Grassroots' movement.
Unless you are new to the Montana blogosphere, the 'Montana Cowgirl' blog appeared last year, and spent months before the election doing a smear campaign on GOP candidates.
After the Dems were handed their worst election day defeat in decades, I assumed that the blog would go away. After all, they failed in their quest to affect the election. Or if they did affect the election, they actually ended up helping the GOP.
Last October, part of the blog was exposed, as it was discovered that there were no less than four 'Cowgirls' - some of them Democratic staffers. Here's a link to one of the stories;
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_1dc5c1c4-dd32-11df-ab6f-001cc4c03286.html
And not only are there four commentators, but they also post their own comments on the blog, with anonymous names.
A few real bloggers go comment there sometimes, but 90% of the coments are from one or all of the 'Cowgirls' themselves.
So my question is this - why is the blog still there?
How are the Dems paying for it?
Somebody, somewhere knows. Inquiring minds would like to know 'The Rest of The Story'.
Those of you who know me, know that I always protect my spies. Drop me an email.
The picture above tells it all.I listened to Steve Daines yesterday, at my Pachyderm Meeting, and I'm very impressed.He and his wife Cindy came through Billings, on the end of a statewide tour, getting his campaign underway, and discussing the issues.If the election were held today, Steve Daines would beat Senator Tester. It wouldn't even be close.I'll be putting up a link, and until I do, check out his website;http://www.stevedaines.com/More to follow.
