Big Sky Country
Two stories from Montana hit my feed today, that I believe go hand in hand.
The first: Whitefish sets the small-town stage for national refugee debate.
So in Whitefish, David LeBleu has been fighting to bring Syrian refugees into the city. This has not gone over well with the locals. LeBleu responded with a march for refugee relocation.
LeBleu and about 70 pro-refugee activists, many from out of town, gathered in a park there with signs reading “Friendship not fear!” and “Stability, opportunity, peace for ALL.”
Note the “many from out of town” part. I would guess that maybe 69 of the 70 were from out of town, and most of those were from out of Montana.
As it turns out, LeBleu him self is a fucking New Yorker from Long Island. He’s a retiree who decided to take up carpet bagging in his retirement. He, like many others, have decided to despoil the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states by permanently relocating to small ski resort towns, then imposing themselves on local politics.
The second: Hiding his socialism beneath a cowboy hat, Montanan Rob Quist tries to ride Bernie Sanders to Washington.
Rob Quist is from Montana. His politics are not.
Montana Sen. Steve Daines summed up the problems facing Mr. Quist the other day in a tweet, which is apparently how politicians get their message out these days. “Rob Quist,” tweeted the senator, “is FOR gun registration, FOR Bernie, FOR sanctuary cities, & FOR a single payer health system.”
Yep. He’s a Sanders fanatic. He also wants to register “assault weapons.”
But he believes that efforts to increase public safety are being derailed by gun manufacturers, questioning the need to own assault rifles.
“They’re only meant to kill people,” he said. “So maybe there should be some legislation to register those types of things. You register your car to drive, why not register guns. I know that’s a touchy subject for a lot of people, but I think we definitely have the right to bear arms and as I say I’ve been on many hunts myself where I’ve brought home an elk that fed our family and that’s an important thing for Montanans.”
Quist is apparently getting most of his money from outside Montana.
Again, it is these fucking carpetbaggers.
This is an issue that hits close to home for me. I watched it happen in Rapid City. A handful of wealthy Liberals from California would buy property on the edge of Black Hills National Forest, then work to end the gazing rights of ranchers that had been there since the 1880’s.
It was hard for LeBleu not to read some letters to the editor as personal attacks.
“How long do we have to tolerate leftists from other states coming here to bring ‘refugees’ from alien cultures to our cities? Cultures so far removed from our own that assimilation is impossible,” said one in December.
Yes, take it personally. I don’t think this guy was just talking about the refugees. I remember a family from New York having a conniption about people being allowed to carry guns on the sidewalk of downtown Rapid City.
The cultures the costs is alien to the Great Plains. I know, I’ve lived in both. I just didn’t have the hubris to look at the people of the Dakotas and say “I’m from a state that touches salt water, I’m right, you’re wrong, and I’m going to change everything about the way you live.”
I hope for the future of Montana, Quist goes down in flames.
I’d hate to see Montana go the way of Colorado. A once free and beautiful mountain state, over run by carpetbaggers.
