Pack your bag and get ready to head out to “Camp Baucus” being held at Big Sky this weekend. Did you miss hearing from Montana’s Senior Senator the last couple of years? Were you unable to attend the hundreds of public listening sessions Baucus and Tester held during the past year? Well this is your lucky day. Senator Baucus is selling access to himself this weekend for a mere $2,500 and is expecting lobbyists and Washington insiders to pay for the rare privilege of speaking to him for a few minutes.
Since we haven’t seen hide nor hair of either Senator Tester of Senator Max Baucus since they took part in forcing the Healthcare Obamanation down our throats this may be one of the few opportunities we have to see them in all their star studded glory. Do they really expect the average Joe Montanan to pony up the $2,500 for the rare privilege of actually having a face to face few minutes of time to tell them what we really need, which is for them to be unseated? Judged by their lack of availability to us Average Joe's, I would guess so, but this is still a smoking deal compared to the $5,000 Max charged people to talk to him over lunch at the Charlie Palmer Steakhouse event back in March
Also check out the Glacier Park "Golfing with the Important People" Fundraiser from last week at It’s Party Time!
Do they really expect the average Joe Montanan to pony up the $2,500
ReplyDeleteAccording to your post they are expecting ".. lobbyists and Washington insiders to pay for the rare privilege of speaking to him for a few minutes".
Don't you read your own posts? LOL
LOL Surely of course I read them
ReplyDeleteDid you see any possible way anyone would get to speak directly to Mr "important no longer a Montanan" Baucus or "No Ear Marks Ever" Tester other then by being an "insider" and forking over $2,500? Or is average Joe Montanan excluded all together at any price??
LOL Surely of course I read them
ReplyDeleteI would assume you do. It was a poke joke.
Did you see any possible way anyone would get to speak directly to Mr "important no longer a Montanan" Baucus or "No Ear Marks Ever" Tester other then by being an "insider" and forking over $2,500? Or is average Joe Montanan excluded all together at any price?
I don't know about Baucus but Tester is very approachable. Rehberg used to be but that has changed drastically the last couple years, IMO.
I guess I just don't see the big deal. These types of gatherings happen all the time on both sides of the aisle. It's a fundraiser.
Certainly this can't be shocking to you is it? SOP.
Max and Jon represent Nancy Pelosi and the rest of California not Montana
ReplyDeleteSomeone in Havre seems to have open access to the Senator....
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Wonder how many jobs that meeting cost.
Maybe it's because Baucus collected $3 million in campaign contributions from the health and insurance sectors from 2003 to 2008 according to this article in the Washington Post
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I would like to continue to ask Tester about his connection to Norman Shu and the money Shu donated to his campaign just as he dogged Senator Burns and when he gives an answer the comment has to be: "You need to be honest with the people" But when Senator Burns was completely exonerated there was never a word from the Junior Senator.But of course it takes real man to admit when he is wrong
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