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[illflem]

was when the GOP was in power they sold off the state owned power plants and hydroelectric dams to private industry to raise revenue without new taxes. This resulted in an almost immediate 200% increase in power rates. Enough to piss anyone off.



Thought this one was funny



GOP leaders: Schweitzer harassing freshman lawmakers
By ALLISON FARRELL of the Missoulian State Bureau

HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer has been threatening and intimidating freshman GOP lawmakers when they vote against his legislation this session, and the harassment has got to stop, Republican House leaders said Monday.

House Republican Floor Leader Mike Lange, R-Billings, said Schweitzer has been telling new Republican legislators that he will personally campaign against them during the 2006 election season and will veto their other bills if they don't toe his line on ethanol, wind energy and ethics laws.

... Lange and House Republican Leader Roy Brown of Billings said they will ask the governor to back off during their regularly scheduled meeting of state government leaders Tuesday morning.

"I've never heard of a governor who used the bully pulpit of his office to do that kind of thing to an individual freshman legislator," said Brown, who is in his fourth term in the House. "It's just not proper."




http://missoulian.com/articles/2005/03/08/news/top/news01.txt