What Montanans Are Saying: “Tim Sheehy Has No Regard for Taxpayers”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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“We do not need a senator who only looks out for himself and his millionaire buddies”
Helena, MT – From now until Election Day, Montanans will keep reminding Transplant Tim Sheehy that he knows nothing about Montana values. From making his riches from government contracts to playing cowboy, recent lettersto the editor have made clear that Sheehy is just another “out-of-state millionaire” who has “done nothing but erode our values and distort our culture.”
Read more below:
Belgrade News: Tim Sheehy 'and his millionaire buddies'
March 12, 2024
Mary Carlson
Tim Sheehy, the Republican U.S. senate candidate, says he is opposed to government help. Yet within the last 4 years, for his company, he accepted and failed to pay back nearly a million dollars in the same COVID aid he constantly criticizes.
Sheehy is a multi-millionaire who pays himself a salary of $5 million. In spite of this, he asked for taxpayers help when he clearly did not need it.
Sheehy is the founder and CEO of Bridger Aerospace in Belgrade, MT. His business relies on government contracts, which is taxpayer money. His message to the voters, that he will work to reduce government spending as a priority, does not square with his actions of taking government contracts and handouts.
In reality, Tim Sheehy has no regard for taxpayers. He says one thing but does the opposite. Call it what you like: double standard, political hypocrisy, dishonesty. Either way, we do not need a senator who only looks out for himself and his millionaire buddies.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Letter to the editor: Enough with out-of-state millionaires in Montana politics
March 5, 2024
Rod Beland
I know we can’t stop growth, and much of it is beneficial. But this growth also is bringing out-of-state millionaires who undermine the values and culture of Montana.
We’re a people who contend with a harsh environment and engage in demanding businesses from farming to ranching to forestry. We enjoy amazing beauty. We’ve learned, from necessity, to help each other, to share this amazing land.
All of this is lost on wealthy folks who transplant to Montana. They bring money but they don’t bring our values with them. They hide in expensive gated resorts; they buy up ranches and close them from hunting by neighbors.
Even this I could tolerate, up to a point. But, I can’t tolerate them coming in thinking they can buy their way into our elected offices and impose their non-Montana values on the rest of us.
We’ve seen it with Gianforte (“Mister Property Tax”), Daines (“Mister Sell Off Our Pubic Lands”) and now with Timothy Sheehy (“Mister Pretend Rancher buying a Senate seat”).
Sheehy might be the worst of the lot since his identity is built on falsehoods. He says he’s a self-made millionaire, but in fact used his family’s wealth to start his business.
He says he’s a cattle rancher but has no hand in his ranch operations other than to use it for photo shoots to promote fashionable cowboy hats and jackets and his Senate campaign.
Out-of-state millionaires have done nothing but erode our values and distort our culture. We don’t need another one pretending to be something he isn’t.
We don’t need Sheehy in the Senate when we already have one of the best Senators in our history in the form of Jon Tester.
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