Could this be why he is a former California lawyer ranching in Montana ? :?McDonald is unfazed by his odds in the race.
“I’ve been an underdog all my life,” he said. “I’ve been an underdog in creating R-CALF (which represents cattle ranchers on marketing and trade issues) and reinstituting the Montana Cattlemen’s Association and making it through college and law school.”
I believe most of the Rascals had a D behind their names and putting another one in to follow Pelosi down the garden path to Bankruptcy is just plain STUPID. :roll:“There is a lot of unrest and angst among voters in Montana,” he said. “There’s huge dissatisfaction with politicians and government. Wherever I go, I hear the theme ‘Let’s throw the rascals out.’ ”
Can anyone say Rancher Cattlemen Action Legal Fund. that risked the beef industry for their isolationalist protectionist agenda by going after the USDA in Federal Court. LAWYERS :roll: :x :roll:McDonald, a former trial lawyer from California who now ranches full time in Montana, criticized how Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have overseen aspects of the U.S. economy, taxes and trade.
The only way to rebalance anything is get Liberal Loon Pelosi as far away from House Speaker seat as humanly possible and voting for McDonald is not going to do a thing to remove her.“As I travel Montana, I’ve never seen the angst in Montanans’ eyes that I’ve witnessed over the last 18 months,” McDonald said. “It’s one of the reasons why I decided to run. We need to rebalance the economic scale.”
Turbo Tax Tim should have never been invited in the door AND It is the party that he would be (if electedMcDonald said he’s frustrated over the Obama administration’s handling of the economy. He said he’s “thrilled” that Larry Summers, director of Obama’s White House National Economic Council, has resigned and hopes Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the next out the door.
“When you keep selecting these people from Wall Street to steer economic policy, it shouldn’t be surprising to any of us that it gets us where it did,” he said.
And I guess high corporate taxes that the DEMS INCLUDING McDonald want is not going to chase even more jobs out of the country to a country that has a more business friendly tax rate. :roll:McDonald is critical of trade policies that have driven U.S. manufacturing overseas and outsourced so many jobs to China.
Even senior Dems Senator and Congressmen and Obama's retired Budget Director says raising taxes on ANYONE is NOT SMART. Tax the rich and see just how many jobs they will create to help get the economy going again. :roll:He is an outspoken opponent of the “irresponsible” tax cuts for the wealthy that passed under President George W. Bush, cuts he said had cost several trillion dollars over the decade.
McDonald supports Obama’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts for couples making less than $250,000 a year and individuals making less $200,000 a year, but not for people making more.
“I would not continue the tax breaks for those in the high-income brackets,” McDonald said. “I think we have to ask those folks to sacrifice a bit for the good for the country.”
Gee leave the money in the pocket of somebody that will create private sector jobs, what a great Idea. But no McDonald wants the government to take the money and SPREAD THE WEALTH through entitlement programs. :roll:Rehberg, who voted for the tax cuts, supports extending them for all taxpayers, saying: “We shouldn’t be raising taxes on anyone. Period.”
Finally a Dem that admits his own party had a hand in the Financial crisis, here I thought we were told it was a BUSH BUST. :???: And good luck with those amendment when Pelosi and Ried are writing the bills there are not amendment allowed. :wink: :roll:McDonald said he likely would have voted for the financial reform bill that became law this fall, but fought for amendments. He wishes that it would have restored the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that restricted the financial activities of banks, brokerages and insurance companies. Clinton made a big mistake by approving the repeal of this law in 1999, McDonald said.
Its repeal basically turned some major banks into Las Vegas casinos with reckless investment decisions that caused the national financial crisis, McDonald said.
McDonald understands UNION ISSUES that is nice to know since the Unions are basically running the Obama Administration Agenda now. :roll:Jim McGarvey, executive secretary of the Montana AFL-CIO, praised McDonald as someone who relates to working people and “is the next best thing for working families and the labor movement since (former Rep.) Pat Williams.”
“He understands working people,” McGarvey said. “By that, I mean he understands our issues as well as anyone I’ve seen run for public office. ... He understands how health care is taking the country down and that it has to be fixed. He was one of the first to speak out for single-payer.”
Welcome to SOCIALLIZED MEDICINE :wink:Rehberg opposed the health care law and criticized McDonald’s support of a single-payer system as “a bad idea” that “would drive up costs and reduce quality and accessibility.”
Gee a lawyer that created R-CALF is ignoring the facts and lieing to the people to furtherOne of McDonald’s past legal clients may be an issue that Rehberg or the state GOP will bring up in the waning days of the campaign.
In the late 1970s, McDonald represented Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno, a killer and the acting boss of the West Coast Cosa Nostra crime family. He was the highest-ranking Mafioso to ever turn state’s witnesses in the 1970s when McDonald was his attorney and one of the biggest mobsters ever to cooperate with the government.
“I took a career criminal,” McDonald said. “I turned him into a government witness. I worked with (then federal prosecutor) Rudy Giuliani and I put 26 high-ranking criminals in prison.”
Replied Rehberg: “That’s certainly the version of events Dennis McDonald would like folks to believe.”
But Rehberg said there are two well-researched books about the matter with facts that “directly contradict Mr. McDonald’s story.”
He said Giuliani has no recollection of McDonald.
Republicans already ran TV ads about the McDonald-Fratianno link in March 2009.
his agenda, BIG SURPRISE :wink: :roll:
Rehberg has a cumulative 92 percent voting record on business-related issues with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
“Generally speaking, if more states elected people like Denny Rehberg, our country would have representatives that listened more, worked harder and voted in a way that creates a better environment to grow our nation’s economy and get people back to work,” said Jon Bennion, government relations director of the Montana Chamber of Commerce.
The past two years he’s been a consistent “no” vote on Democratic President Barack Obama’s major proposals.
His concern over taxes and spending led Rehberg to join the House Tea Party Caucus founded by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., although he’s been unable to attend any meetings so far.
“I appreciate the Tea Party movement nationwide,” he said. “If any organization wants to draw attention to both our spending and our taxation, that’s a good thing.”
Wasn't Oldtimer making a big issue out of this awhile back?McDonald has blasted Rehberg over several controversies, calling the congressman’s personal conduct “a reoccurring embarrassment to Montana.”
He was referring to the boat crash on Flathead Lake in August 2009. Tests show the driver of boat, Sen. Greg Barkus, R-Kalispell, was intoxicated, and he faces criminal charges. Rehberg was a passenger with two aides who were hurt, one seriously. Rehberg released his blood alcohol content, which was 0.05 percent several hours after the wreck.
Rehberg said the boat accident hasn’t been an issue in the campaign.
“We were victims of an accident,” he said. “People are very understanding of that. The only people that seem to be perpetuating that issue are people like my opponent
So let's sum it up, A Tea Party Conservative verses the Creator of R-CALF. Anyone want to guess where my LEGAL VOTE is going? :wink: