Montana Politics

We had great open lines with Senator Sales today. It started with the conversation on Bullock's 71 vetoes. We talked about why have a $300 million state surplus? Concealed carry laws. Income taxes and summer fires

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The good the bad and the ugly. Let's take a look at this years session.

It seems to be the feeling that a few good things happened, but the Governor is wielding the veto stick already.

For some reason this session in Helena there is a "Dirty Dozen" on the GOP side that likes to jump over to the left. Doesn't do much good to have control of the houses if you don't use it. Carl talks about the "Social" Republicans

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Topics this week:

Pension Plan Select Committee.

Update on medicaid expansion.

What are dog and cat bills?

Dark Money regulations.

Insurance exchanges.

Boy we covered a lot of stuff today and the calls were great, so thanks for being a part of the show. We talked about Bullocks agenda, the Dems and their tantrum on the Senate floor, drones and more. Here is our conversation from Thursday

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Along with an official change of Senate policy announced today, April 10, comes word that republican and democrat Senate leaders will cooperate on key legislation after Friday's Senate disruption.

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Senator Scott Sales and Senator Larry Jent joined me to talk about medicaid expansion in Montana. They each talked about their reasons for voting for and against the expansion. Listen and decide for yourself

Thursday Senator Scott Sales and Representative Kerry White joined me to talk about the weekly legislation update. Even though the House voted 100-0 to pass the state budget, Senator sales thinks that there is something hidden, or misleading about the budget numbers, and is looking for further information before the Senate vote

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April 6th at the Holiday Inn is the place. Congressman Steve Daines, Senate Majority leader Art Wittich and House Majority Leader Gordy Vance will all be speaking that night.

Gun auctions, table auctions, desert auctions, silent auctions and more are all part of the night.

Get your tickets today because

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Former State Representative Tom Burnett joined me to talk about the Governor's budget, particularly what fat can be cut.  Bullock's proposed budget is $11.5 billion over two years and relies on nearly half the revenues from Washington, DC.  It reportedly represents an increase in spending of 13% and includes:

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