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"Members of the committee, for the record I am Roy Brown and I represent Senate District 25 in Billings Mt. I can tell you in my ten years in the Legislature I have never supported a mandate on insurance companies and I think if you talk to insurance companies they would tell you that I have been a very good friend of theirs and looked after their interests because I know that helps the consumers in Montana."
That is the entire quote as found in the Montana Senate Journal. End of story. Roy has voted to keep Montanans insured. This blog and Beau Wright are liars. Come November 2nd Roy is gonna mop the floor with KVD.
Roy has run a positive race, while Kendall has thrown mud and lied. Claiming that he passed 'historic' legislation is b.s. He authored and the Montana Senate amended his legislation. In 1985 a Stream Access law was passed that first gave Montanans access to Streams. That was historic. This is not historic. 1985=1st really good movie, KVD's bill =straight to VHS.
This ad is just a little bizarre with such a blatant non sequitur. I've also put together a few low-budget TV ads over the years, but this one struck me as just really amateur.
Since the Ad mentions the stream access issues and Kendall's 2007 bill I thought I'd provide some background.
The Montana Supreme Court ruled that ranchers had NO right to attach fences to highway bridges since, obviously, they're on public rights-of-way. Moreover, anglers (and others) DO have the right to access streams where those bridges cross the waterways.
This all makes perfect sense, since the state owns the riverbeds and up to the high water mark, so "stream access," which was a 1985 bill, by the way, is guaranteed.
Kendall's 2007 bill actually provided less access for anglers because he and his cohorts at FWP decided that ranchers could attach their fences to the bridges, but that they'd have to allow FWP to spend sportsman/woman's dollars to build passageways either through or over the fences. So instead of ranchers having to build the access points through their illegal fences, we Montanans get to pay for it from our license fees.
Of course, MCV and some others declared this great "environmental" victory that has little to do with the environment and it isn't a victory...we actually gave stuff up we didn't have to. Then again, since the Dems basically got their asses handed to them for the last couple sessions on enviro issues, this is the kind of stuff that passes as a victory these days. Thanks.
