( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
All politics is local.
Imagine this - you're been an elected politician for over a decade. You get a call from a reporter who is writing his first story about your current campaign. Do you, (a.) talk a little bit about what you've done for the folks you represent; or (b.) do you revert back to negative tactics you've used in your most recent campaign (a campaign that set records for ineptitude and failure)?
If your answer is (b.), don't be surprised if voters start asking, "What the heck has that guy been doing?" And saying, "Maybe it's time for him to get out of the way."
The Gazette's Tom Lutey has some early coverage of what is shaping up to be the premier legislative race this election cycle - the battle between Kendall Van Dyk and Roy Brown in Billings' State Senate District 25.
While Van Dyk talks about his accomplishments in three short years...
Van Dyk likes his chances of appealing to moderates. In his last legislative session, he crafted a bipartisan bill to settle the disputes over stream access between property owners and river users. It was the first stream access bill to pass through the Legislature in 25 years. He also won bipartisan support for a bill to grant certain therapies for autistic children.
Roy Brown jumps to the low road (and doesn't mention one, single thing that he's done)...
Brown is getting the jump on nicknames.
"I'm not afraid of Tax Hike Van Dyk," he said.
Many Republicans I know (the smart class that have run and won statewide elections) were embarrassed by the campaign that Roy ran last year for Governor (and not just because he lost 50+ counties and ran even with Bob Kelleher.) They're embarrassed because his campaign lacked any substance, blamed everyone else but himself for his problems and went on silly attack threads that showed him to be weak.
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