Senator Max Baucus of Montana received 349000 votes when he ran for re-election ...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Max_Baucus

Abramoff PAC Money

On December 20, 2005 Baucus' office announced that he was returning $18,892 in contributions that his office has found to be connected to indicted former lobbyist Jack Abramoff <1>.
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Baucus' opponent, Montana state senator Mike Taylor, accused Baucus of having implied that Taylor was a gay hairdresser in a campaign ad. The ad alleged that Taylor had embezzled funds from the cosmetology school he once owned while showing footage from the early '80s of Taylor massaging another man's face while wearing a tight suit with an open shirt. The commercial was featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Show along with interviews with the major third-party candidates for Baucus' seat. Taylor briefly dropped out of the race before returning in a last ditch bid to save face. Baucus won with 63% of the vote.

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Baucus voted in favor of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and was at President Bush's side as he signed it. He has fairly consistently voted against repealing the portions of that bill and more recent tax cut bills that benefit upper income taxpayers.

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Max Baucus has received $87,100 in oil contributions during the 110th congress. $46,500 of those dollars were from industry PACS. <4> In total, Baucus has accepted $195,700 from oil companies since 2000 which makes him one of the top recipients of oil money in the United States Senate. <5>In addition to oil money, Baucus has received $82,900 in coal contributions during the 110th congress. $68,300 of those dollars were from industry PACS.

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Inside Politics
Senator's wife charged with assault
Baucus: 'I stand by her'

From Joe Johns and Steve Turnham
CNN Washington Bureau
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 7:59 PM EDT (2359 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/baucus.wife/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The wife of a U.S. senator was charged with simple assault Wednesday following an incident in which she allegedly struck another woman while loading items into her car at a garden store.

D.C. Police spokesman Joe Gentile said Wanda Baucus -- the wife of Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana -- turned herself in to police at 1 p.m. and then went to D.C. Superior Court for arraignment.

"There was a situation involving Wanda last night," her husband of 20 years said in a written statement. "We're trying to sort it out, going through the proper channels. I stand by her 110 percent. And she has my full support."

An employee at the Johnson's Flower and Garden Center, where the alleged incident took place on Tuesday evening, told CNN that Wanda Baucus and another woman got into an argument while they each were waiting for 35-pound bags of mulch to be loaded into their cars.

The incident caused a commotion in the parking lot of the garden center. One witness said a half dozen police cars responded on the scene.

The maximum penalty for simple assault, a misdemeanor, is 180 days in jail and/or a $1000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

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This from NPR:

Who Has Access to Max Baucus?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106655060

Donald Sutherland


Actor
Posted: August 18, 2009 02:40 PM


It must finally be clear to us all that the stumbling block to successful health/disease care reform has been definitively reduced to two words. They're not "public option" or "single payer", they're "Max Baucus".

He was not elected to eliminate the Democratic Majority in the Finance Committee, but that's what he's done. It was not mandated that he exclude a representative expert on single payer from his 15-person advisory board but that's what he did. More than that, he's filled his campaign coffers with millions of dollars of Insurance Company money, for heaven's sake. Fine that he sits there holding the president's suit coat at that town hall meeting, great that he gets identified by the president a bunch of times. Great, because now we can all have a good look at who he is, sitting there squirming in the spotlight.

Enough sitting. It's time Max Baucus stands up and is counted, and if he can't get up on his own then Rahm Emanuel with someone hefty should go grab him by the scruff of his neck, stand him up and shake some sense into him. Standing by the likes of Grassley only counts with the insurance profiteers. It doesn't count with us. Stand up, Max Baucus, stand up for what's right or you'll be sitting down for a long, long time!

Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Max Baucus' actions on health care?

Approve Disapprove Not sure

All 42 44 14
Dem 34 55 11
Rep 49 38 13
Ind 41 42 17

In case you missed that, the poll found that on the issue of health care, Baucus is more popular among Montana Republicans than Democrats — by a margin of 15 points.
That’s not all.
Do you favor or oppose creating a new public health insurance plan that anyone can purchase?

Favor Oppose Not sure

All 47 43 10
Dem 78 15 7
Rep 23 66 11
Ind 48 41 11

This floater needs some serious flushing.