| The situation: Commercial landlords are up in arms because the governor has exposed the long-known fact that the state, for many, many years, gave super-sweetheart deals to the buddies of Martz and Racicot administrations, in the form of over-market rent contracts to Republican landlords.
The question: Why not a peep from the lobbyist for the Montana Realtors' Association?
The answer: He is John Sinrud, former representative (R-Belgrade), long-time Schweitzer antagonist, and right-wing nut-job. Here is Singer's " greatest hits" of Sinrud.
The dilemma: His politics probably force him to personally agree with Schweitzer here, that you shouldn't be paying $15 a square foot for real estate when you can find $10 on the market. (Republican politicians are finally starting to get in trouble for their extravagant spending, and I'm not even mentioning the Republican National Committee's expense-account party at a bondage club.)
But his real estate mogul clients probably don't agree with this form of fiscal restraint. It must be a terrible pickle for poor John, taking his froth-at-the-mouth-rabidity into the nervous breakdown variety. Plus, I doubt he'll get an audience with the Gov anytime soon to air his clients' grievances...
Another "ouch" for a nut-job. It's a bad time to be a RWNJ in Montana. |
