Montana Gov. Lampoons Koch Group Over 'Millions Of Montanans' Goof
Source: Talking Points Memo
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) bashed the Koch brothers-funded conservative outside group Americans for Prosperity for botching the total population of Montana in a response to Montana Democrats advancing legislation that would expand Medicaid in the state.
The botched statement, by Montana Americans for Prosperity state director Zach Lahn said "the voices of millions of Montanans" didn't want to expand Medicaid through Obamacare. It came after the Montana House of Representatives passed a Medicaid expansion bill.
Montana's population does not extend into the millions.
"Montanas population passed one million people for the first time ever in 2012. So imagine my surprise when the latest billionaire-funded attack accused me of opposing the voices of millions of Montanans," Bullock (pictured) wrote in a fundraising email on Monday. "Let me tell you whats most startling about this -- Not knowing how many "millions" of people live in Montana wont stop the Koch brothers and Americans for Prosperity from spending millions of dollars to buy our elections."
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-bullock-millions-of-montanans-afp
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Thank God Democrats never fall for this shit. (yes, I'm mocking religion!)
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)to prevent poor people from getting healthcare
this should bring you to a condition of RAGE
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Than not only the state of Montana's annual budget, but the annual budget of a whole cluster of western states.
http://ballotpedia.org/Montana_state_budget_and_finances
http://www.richestcelebrities.net/koch-brothers-net-worth/
And they're fighting to keep working families from getting health care. It's despicable.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)But I don't know what it's going to take to persuade conservative voters to oppose them.
As long as the most money wins elections, they will be a force to be reckoned with.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)who is not exactly like you.
Chellee
(2,102 posts)I think it's supreme selfishness. They truly do not care if we live or die. As a matter of fact, if our dying would make them even one penny richer I believe they would encourage, and celebrate our deaths. But that isn't hate, it's just sociopathic indifference.
Of course, in the end, it doesn't really matter why they want to destroy everything and everybody, we'd still be dead.
I agree that their followers are full of hate. I can't imagine what else would possess them to act against their own interests. That, and stupidity, because I don't think they even realize they're following the Kochs.
erronis
(15,373 posts)That they're the ones being screwed.
The Cocks and the ones that already have everything they need to stay in power; they just want the moronic RW voters to serve as the foot soldiers on the outside of the castle.
"You peons (whoops, faithful lackeys) please protect us against those 99% that are asking for ridiculous items such as health care for all, decent wages, clean water and air, education."
Of course those stupid foot soldiers will be left outside the castle walls when there is nothing left to feed their minds or their stomachs. They'll have to deal with the real stuff real quick. The castle-dwellers will eventually be made to serve dinner, also.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2naSalit
(86,824 posts)there have been instances of that in some communities in Idaho and New Hampshire, this was done to dominate the state legislature.
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lark
(23,163 posts)They aren't used to that and it will expose them for what they truly are.
2naSalit
(86,824 posts)the state legislature is having a near-end-of-session heated argument over the Medicaid expansion Bill.
And current population is about 1,024 million humans residing in the state.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/30000.html
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2naSalit
(86,824 posts)that several of them are kochroaches.
jalan48
(13,896 posts)Great to see them standing up to Koch Brothers misinformation and bullshit!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)One makes when one is used to merely cutting and pasting legislation and rote responses.
"Hellooo, Detroit! ... I mean, Cleveland! ..."
TRoN33
(769 posts)But... It's a reminder that he's still a Republican.
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)are millions of Montanans who believe as they do.
They cannot help themselves. It is part of the conservative view to be that sure, and that wrong.
rurallib
(62,461 posts)I mean did they say people or humans?
Simeon Salus
(1,154 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)fetuses and potential fetuses (unfertilized ova) in order to arrive at their figure of "millions of Montanans."
But even that would be a real stretch.