Shady Sheehy Is a Rich Out-of-Stater Who Will Change Montana for the Worse

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Thursday, August 8, 2024

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Helena, MT – While Shady Sheehy is under the microscope this week, here’s a reminder that Sheehy is just another rich out-of-stater who will change Montana for the worse.   

Sheehy is a rich out-of-stater who uses his insider connections to get what he wants: 

• Sheehy used his business associate to lower his property taxes on his mansion in Big Sky – saving himself tens of thousands of dollars as Montana families saw their property taxes skyrocket.
   

• Sheehy and his family members poured nearly $50,000 into Rep. Ryan Zinke’s campaign and PAC while Zinke was introducing a bill Bridger Aerospace lobbied for. Zinke, who was a personal friend of Sheehy’s, also awarded Bridger Aerospace its very first Interior Department contract – just months after he became Secretary of the Interior.
   

• After Sheehy donated $2,000 to Gianforte’s campaigns, Sheehy personally emailed his “close friend and mentor” Governor Greg Gianforte to “introduce a tax cut that would benefit wealthy out-of-state investors” like him.
   

• Sheehy blocked Montana hunters from accessing his “prime elk hunting land,” but charged rich tourists $10,000 a week to hunt.

Sheehy doesn’t know the first thing about Montana values – he’ll change Montana for the worse: 

• Sheehy wants to ban abortion nationwide and refuses to back protections for birth control or IVF.
   

• Sheehy called to transfer public lands – which would make it easier to sell off Montana’s public lands to multimillionaire out-of-staters like him.
   

• Sheehy’s “pure privatization” health care plan would decimate health care in Montana. His plan would shutter rural hospitals, eliminate Medicare, and raise costs for hundreds of thousands of Montantans.
   

• Sheehy’s is backed by, and campaigning with, an organization that has supported closing VA clinics across rural Montana. These clinics are lifelines for veterans, and closing them would force veterans to travel far and wide to seek the care they need.

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