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Rehberg says Montanans “fall for” Montana news media in TEA Party interview

 

(Helena) – Dennis Rehberg thinks Montanans are being duped by Montana media. 

In an April TEA Party interview, Rehberg indicates Montanans “fall for” a “filtered message” disseminated by Montana

newspapers and network television news programs. 

Said Rehberg, “…we have power now, in the opportunity to use the social media of things like email, and Facebook and Twitter and Myspace and all the other ways of communication, but we don’t necessarily have to rely on ABC, NBC, CBS, the various major newspapers around the state and the nation that we have the ability to communicate with each other, and people just aren’t falling for what they used to, because they were, a message was filtered through the national media.” (Watch video here at minute 9:00)

Montana Democratic Party Announces Dates for 2010 Platform Convention

(Helena) - The Montana Democratic Party today announced that its 2010 Platform Convention will be held June 11-12, 2010 in Billings.

The convention will convene at 1 PM on Friday, June 11, at the Billings Hotel and Convention Center in Billings. Registration will be available on Friday, June 11, from 11 AM to 1 PM and continue on Saturday, June 12, beginning at 8:30 AM.

All delegates must register and display a badge issued at the time of registration to be eligible to vote during the convention.

For more information or to register for the convention, visit http://montanademocrats.org/platform2010.

FACT CHECK: Dennis Rehberg's "Land Grab" Scare


REHBERG:  

Continues to attempt to scare Montanans over what he calls “Secret Antiquities Act Information.” Insists the Department of Interior is plotting a “13 million-acre land-grab” along the Missouri River Breaks in Montana.

FACT:

At a March 9, 2010 hearing, Senator Jon Tester directly questioned Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about rumors of the Interior Department planning to purchase land from willing sellers along the Missouri River Breaks.

MDP Asks: Where is Dennis Rehberg on DISCLOSE Act?

 Bill co-sponsored by Sens. Tester, Baucus brings transparency to campaign funding after controversial Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court case

 (Helena) – The Montana Democratic Party today released the following statement regarding the Senate DISCLOSE Act, which would make campaign funding more transparent after the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United v. FEC decision opened the door to allow unchecked spending on political campaigns by foreign and American corporations. 

“Senators Tester and Baucus co-sponsored the DISCLOSE Act because they believe it’s wrong for corporations to buy and sell candidates,” said MDP Executive Director David Benson. “And they know that when Big Oil and Wall Street are buying ads to elect or defeat candidates, our Democracy is at risk.”

“Now Montanans are asking: Where is Dennis Rehberg on DISCLOSE? Rehberg has been masquerading as the poster boy for transparency in government, but will he actually vote for transparency when it’s time to do more than talk?

“Montana voters deserve to know whether Dennis Rehberg is on their side, or on the side of big corporations.”

Montana Democratic Party Introduces Fact Check: Rehberg

MDP to Provide Regular Fact-Based Feature to Help Journalists, Interested Montanans in Sorting Rehberg Rhetoric from Reality

Helena - The Montana Democratic Party today announced Fact Check: Rehberg, a regular fact-based feature to help journalists and all interested Montanans in sorting Congressman Rehberg's rhetoric from reality.

 "Dennis Rehberg has made a living these last ten years out of trying to keep Montanans in the dark," said David Benson, Executive Director of the Montana Democratic Party. "It's time he becomes accountable for his actions-- whether it's spouting out false conservative talking points, being untruthful about his votes, or his misrepresentation of landmark health care legislation. We sincerely hope this will help keep him honest when he's acting on behalf of Montanans in D.C, or talking to folks here at home."

All Fact Check: Rehberg items will be sent via press release and posted on a new Facebook page administered by the

Montana Democratic Party, as well as on the MDP website. The page will also be entitled Fact Check: Rehberg.

 Stay tuned for more Fact Check: Rehberg.

  

Fact Check: Rehberg #1
 

REHBERG:

Uses GOP talking point and suggests that “16,000 new IRS agents” will have to be hired as result of health reform legislation.

FACT (fromFactCheck.org):

“This wildly inaccurate claim started as an inflated, partisan assertion that 16,500 new IRS employees might be required to administer the new law. That devolved quickly into a claim, made by some Republican lawmakers, that 16,500 IRS "agents" would be required. Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas even claimed in a televised interview that all 16,500 would be carrying guns. None of those claims is true.”

Rehberg Disagrees with Self, Still Has No Solutions

Helena – Rep. Dennis Rehberg continued to raise questions about the sincerity of his pledge to look for ways to cut the deficit in a Helena television interview.  
Rehberg, who recently admitted a pledge to swear off earmarks would do nothing to lower the deficit, continues to tout the symbolic pledge as an actual solution.
 
On an edition of The Dunwell Report, Lee Newspapers reporter Chuck Johnson asked Rehberg if he had “ever voted or moved to cut or eliminate funding for any projects in Montana.”  Rehberg first said “yes,” then “no,” then promised to give examples.  Instead, he launched into a long, confusing lecture on how the budget process works (transcript below, video here).
 
“Dennis Rehberg needs to level with Montanans and admit he doesn’t have any solutions,” said Kate Downen, communications director for the Montana Democratic Party.  “It’s clear he either doesn’t understand how Washington works or he’s intentionally misleading Montanans for political gain.”

 
Transcript of Q & A between Chuck Johnson of Lee Newspapers and Rep. Dennis Rehberg from Beartooth NBC’s The Dunwell Report, April 4, 2010.

CHUCK JOHNSON: “Have you ever voted or moved to cut or eliminate funding for any projects in Montana since you’ve been in Congress?  Could you give some examples?”
 
DENNIS REHBERG: “Yes. Yes.  No, but I’ll give you examples.  I’ll get back to you because one of the things that I suggest is that, uh—talk about earmarks.  Earmarks are a directing within an individual budget.  But the thing that does not occur is you haven’t touched the budget itself within that arena.  And so you have to get back into the authorization of the program and decide—use as an example, um, the rainforest in Iowa that was funded at a university.  You know, people point at that.  And my suggestion is it’s not necessarily that Iowa got a rainforest.  It’s ‘why did it even qualify for money within the area that the money was taken out of?’  And so the hard work is to get in and take a look at the individual agencies.  So yes, I have suggested one-percent across-the-board cuts, five percent-across-the-board cuts, and that addresses programs that would affect Montana as well.”

 
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