Corey Stapleton told Trump to concede and congratulate Biden — when will Daines, Gianforte, and Rosendale do the same?

Four days after the election, when it was obvious that Joe Biden had won the presidential election, Montana’s Secretary of State, Corey Stapleton, told President Trump to accept reality and concede:

I have supported you, Mr. President, we (Montana) have supported you—and @realDonaldTrump accomplished some incredible things during your time in office!
But that time is now over.
Tip your hat, bite your lip, and congratulate @JoeBiden.
Blessings on you and your family.❤️

— Corey Stapleton (@Stapleton_MT) November 7, 2020

Thanks to Trump’s attack on their integrity, and his efforts to punish them for telling the truth, elections officials across the nation, and their families, their children, are receiving death threats. Therefore, Stapleton’s Tweet took no small amount of courage.

…read the rest

Without a Democratic governor to veto extreme bills, 2021’s
legislative session may bless the rich and curse the poor

The Republicans now controlling Montana’s legislature and governorship are not, warns former Bozeman legislator Brady Wiseman in a long and fiery post in Medium, the pragmatists who believe in governing who once dominated their party:

…read the rest

Get-your-blood-flowing old time
rock-n-roll by the Cadillac Kings

The Kings, accomplished middle-aged English musicians, formed their group 20 years ago. From their website:

After Mr. Covid gets kicked out of our valley, and we can have a safe county fair, the Kings would be a crowd pleasing act to hire. Here’s a double dose of their hard driving music.

Permalink

America opts for dignity and decency

Joe Biden becomes the fifth man and fourth Democrat
since 1896 to defeat a first term incumbent president

President-elect Joe Biden, also is the seventh vice president since 1896 to become president, and only the third to be elected instead of replacing a president who died in office.

First, the incumbent presidents who lost re-election bids:

…read the rest

Montana’s 2020 turnouts were the highest
since the 26th Amendment was approved

Montana’s voter turnouts were the highest for a federal general election since the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971. Here are the numbers:

Data: Registered voters and votes cast, MT SecST; estimated 2020 population, U.S. Census Bureau estimate for 2019 extrapolated to 2020 by Flathead Memo; voting eligible population, U.S. Elections Project.

…read the rest

Flathead Democrats down to one leg seat

Montana turns deep red as
Republicans sweep statewide elections

There was no ticket splitting in Montana’s statewide partisan elections. In 2016, Donald Trump received 56.5 percent of Montana’s presidential vote. As of 0500 this morning, with approximately 58 percent of the precincts counted, he was receiving 56 percent of the vote. His fellow Republicans on statewide tickets received 52–59 percent of the vote.

Not a single statewide election was close.

…read the rest