Montana Gov. Lampoons Koch Group Over 'Millions Of Montanans' Goof

[highplainsdem]

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.

"Montana’s 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 what’s most startling about this -- Not knowing how many "millions" of people live in Montana won’t 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]

1. Facts are so inconvenient.

Thank God Democrats never fall for this shit. (yes, I'm mocking religion!)

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. Two men worth more money than a third of the country combined are spending money and time

to prevent poor people from getting healthcare


this should bring you to a condition of RAGE

[Blanks]

5. The Koch brothers have more net worth...

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]

6. It is an overt act of violence, if they were shooting people at random it would be NO different

[Blanks]

8. It is upsetting...

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]

9. The hate they have is amazing, all that money and full of hatred for anyone

who is not exactly like you.

[Chellee]

26. See, I don't think it's hatred.

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]

13. Going out on a limb (with a saw): The Conservative Voters have no idea

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]

21. So true.

[KamaAina]

3. Maybe the Kochsuckers have plans to resettle millions of us lefties there.

[2naSalit]

7. Interesting point since

there have been instances of that in some communities in Idaho and New Hampshire, this was done to dominate the state legislature.

[lark]

10. Hit them with the truth over and over.

They aren't used to that and it will expose them for what they truly are.

[2naSalit]

11. Here in Montana

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]

23. Yeah, but some of them may be Kochroaches. Just sayin' n/t

[2naSalit]

24. Oh, there is absolutely no doubt

that several of them are kochroaches.

[jalan48]

12. Let's hear it for the Montanans.

Great to see them standing up to Koch Brothers misinformation and bullshit!

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. I guess that is the mistake ...

One makes when one is used to merely cutting and pasting legislation and rote responses.

"Hellooo, Detroit! ... I mean, Cleveland! ..."

[TRoN33]

15. He's a Republican. I have a respect for him for hit back on Koch bros...

But... It's a reminder that he's still a Republican.

[highplainsdem]

18. ????? No, Governor Bullock is a Democrat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bullock_%28Montana_politician%29

[TRoN33]

22. Oh oops. I must be very tired. My bad. Thanks for the wake up.

[subterranean]

19. Who, Gov. Bullock? He's a Democrat.

[jtuck004]

16. Facts notwithstanding, I suspect there are more than a few people who still believe there

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]

17. At times like this, cows, sheep, horses and chickens count

I mean did they say people or humans?

[Simeon Salus]

20. Perhaps these are the Montanans they were referring to:

[BlueMTexpat]

25. The Kochs may have been counting

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.