Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-Montana) has had been thinking of running for prez in ’16.
Having called Dianne Feinstein a whore and Eric Cantor gay, I think we can safely say Schweitzer won’t be the next Dem nominee or the country’s next president.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) on Edward Snowden:
“First of all, Snowden probably shouldn’t have done what he did. But the fact of the matter is I don’t see how that compromises the security of this country whatsoever. And quite frankly, it helps people like me become aware of a situation that I wasn’t aware of before because I don’t sit on that Intelligence Committee.”
That’s pretty much where I am on all this.
“I have a warm regard for the people of Iowa and New Hampshire.”
Dem. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer
The people of Iowa and New Hampshire would like to be ignored for a couple of years, thank you very much.
In a two-paragraph opinion, the Supreme Court refused to revisit Citizens United and ruled 5-4 that Montana’s 100-year-old law limiting corporate campaign contributions was invalid, reversing the Montana Supreme Court. Twenty-two other states had joined with Montana.
So efforts to restrict corporate spending in local and state elections have failed.
The case was American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock.
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