NEW: Former MT Republican Legislator Says Sheehy Using “Scorched Earth Blitz” to Intimidate Endorsers
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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Sheehy and his allies accused of using “below-the-belt” strategy to target key Montana Republicans
Helena, MT – A new op-ed from Roger Koopman, a former Republican Montana House member, accuses Mitch McConnell recruit Tim Sheehy of using “below-the-belt” campaign tactics, “said to be among the most reprehensible in recent Montana memory,” to intimidate Montana Republicans into supporting his candidacy.
Montana Republicans have refused to coalesce around Sheehy, with many seeing him as the “establishment” pick. Among the many weaknesses Koopman identifies, he also alleges that “a scorched earth blitz is now underway, which aims at legislators, donors and vendors, a variety of intimidating messages and veiled threats of retaliation.”
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Roger Koopman
[Sheehy’s] Bridger Aerospace company promoted itself to the far-left woke community as a "fundamentally-driven ESG business," thus securing a $160 million ESG industrial development bond – one of the largest ESG-accredited "sustainability" bonds ever.
After becoming a candidate, Sheehy then scrubbed all ESG references from his website. Yet even now, Sheehy continues to be heavily invested in certain climate […] enterprises, such as the sustainability service Cloverly, a firm that helps companies monitor their planet-threatening carbon (CO2) output.
Until Sheehy announced for the Senate, his company also boldly represented itself as "fighting on the front lines of climate change" and as attacking "CO2 emissions to combat climate change." This, too, has disappeared from his Bridger website… Now candidate Sheehy is stating on Fox News that "the cleanest form of energy known to man is American fossil fuels."
While earning $5 million a year in salary and bonuses from a company, 96% of whose revenues are derived from government contracts, Sheehy aggressively fattened his bank account further through direct taxpayer subsidies.
Most recently, this included a $774,300 "forgivable federal loan" (read: subsidy) for "payroll protection," and a $221,000 federal SBA subsidyfrom taxpayers to cover the customary business expense of training his employees. Imagine a man with a probable net worth of over $200 million having a clear conscience while plundering the average taxpayer.
In his TV spots, Sheehy strikes quite the pose, donning his cowboy hat while planting himself in the saddle of a sturdy quarter horse. With his political donations, Sheehy likes to describe himself as "rancher" or "cowboy." Yet no serious rancher would have somehow "forgotten" to register his livestock with the Department of Revenue as state law requires. Still, after four years of ownership, Sheehy has yet to report as much as one skinny chicken. His estimated unpaid tax bill in now is the tens of thousands.
Critics have already latched on to his Montana state tax avoidance by incorporating on the East Coast and his recent merger with Jack Creek Investment, a "blank check" corporation operating out of the Cayman Islands, a tax haven for the wealthy.
People want to know, for example, where in the world all the millions of dollars came from that allowed Sheehy to establish Bridger Aerospace in the very same month he left active duty with the Navy. It certainly wasn't from saving dimes and nickels from his officer's salary.
What Montanans… appear to be missing is the amount of baggage Sheehy would tote into a general election contest with Jon Tester.
Combined with this are the many reports of Sheehy's below-the-belt campaign tactics, said to be among the most reprehensible in recent Montana memory. With the alleged assistance of highly placed Republican officeholders (it's not hard to fill in the blanks), a scorched earth blitz is now underway, which aims at legislators, donors and vendors, a variety of intimidating messages and veiled threats of retaliation.
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