Former Navy officer, teacher enters race to unseat GOP senator in Montana

[Judi Lynn]

BY TAL AXELROD - 07/11/19 12:21 PM EDT

Montana Democrat John Mues officially launched his Senate campaign Thursday to unseat one-term Sen. Steve Daines (R).

Mues, a fourth generation Montanan, is a former U.S. Navy officer and public school teacher and currently works as an engineer in the energy sector. He hammered Daines over his opposition to the Affordable Care Act and support for President Trump’s tax cuts.

“Senator Daines’ position and votes on American health care has not only been immoral, it’s been anti-jobs and anti-business. Reliable, affordable health care, including lowering the price of prescription drugs, in the twenty-first century, is both the right thing to do and important to job creation,” Mues said in a press release.

“Senator Daines has bent over backwards, shamelessly, to vote for deficit and debt-exploding tax breaks for his major wealthy donors,” Mues added. “It’s important that Montanans hear the unvarnished truth about Senator Daines, from someone who is not a politician and has served his country.”

More:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/452610-montana-democrat-announces-challenge-to-daines-senate-seat

[BadgerMom]

1. I need to find out his site to donate.

[Grasswire2]

2. I wonder why Steve Bullock did not decide to run for that seat.

Popular governor there, in a state with term limits.

[sandensea]

4. +1

Could it be that Cheeto's Gestapo found evidence of, say, an affair - and used it to persuade him to opt out of running?

[Grasswire2]

5. doubt it

He's a high school friend of a family member of mine. A good guy.

[sandensea]

6. Kudos!

I doubt it too - but hey, we're all only human.

And his passing up what I think most of his supporters would say is his best shot - Daines' Senate seat - does beg the question as to why we would instead seek a very longshot nomination.

Whatever the reason, Daines - and Bitchy Mitchy - must be very relieved.

Bullock was by far the best candidate for that.

[Aristus]

3. The repukes are going to rip him to shreds.

He's a veteran. and of course, the 'pukes don't like veterans anymore. They like cowardly draft-dodgers.

And he's a public school teacher. Repukes despise public school teachers. they prefer private school advocates.