Calling all Skeletons in Denny Rehberg's Closet - Congressman Denny Rehberg it is Election Year Coming Up and Well Time to Find Out the Truth ..

This Picture to the Left, I have a Video of This Moment, it is From the Bitterroot Star.. From a Town Hall Meet and Greet in Hamilton Montana the Summer of 2009. This is the Look that Denny Rehberg was giving one of his Native American Audience Members as she asked about Health Care and Native American Issues in Montana...

Those of You Search for Denny Rehberg On my Sites, search for Congressman Denny Rehberg Biography or Information on Denny Rehberg and his Boat Crash on Flathead Lake in Montana...

Well I just Want to Say on my Montana News by the People News Network, First of all if you got a Denny Rehberg Tip - you Can Email me at Crystal@CrystalCox.com ...

Next We are Getting information that those involved in Investigating the Denny Rehberg Crash on Flathead Lake have been told to STOP or Else.

We wonder what investigators might find that Congressman Denny Rehberg might be Hiding... We suspect that there was a whole lot more to that Drunken night then Congressman Denny Rehberg is willing to admit, and Denny Rehberg's Cronies surely won't tell you what he was really up to and with whom.

We wonder who was really driving that boat, who had how many drinks REALLY and what really happened that night.. as well as heading into an Election Year and All the Montana Moxy news Network ran by Mad Dog Blogger Crystal Cox, yeah that's me..

I wonder how many Skeletons will Fall right out of Congressman Denny Rehberg's Closet in 2010... how many Denny Rehberg Whistleblowers will turn up...

Well Anyway... Calling All Skeletons... Email me at Crystal@CrystalCox.com or better yet write on our News Network or send us a Video Clip of Your News to You...

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James Kiser, Ex - CEO of St. James Hospital in Butte

News To Me Tip on St. Joseph's in Polson Montana, CEO James Kiser

It is Said that the St. James Hospital in Butte got turned upside down and it was in near collapse when James Kiser "resigned".

the story of Dr. Anna Chacko.

It is said that James Kiser hired Dr. Anna Chacko along with her cohort Scott Steinfeldt. They made a mess of the private/public radiology lab. There were no less than four lawsuits and now the hospital is on the verge of collapse. Dr. Anna Chacko name is said to be featured
in all four of these lawsuits, and it is said that James Kiser brought her over.

Full Story on This at Link Below.

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/09/dr-chacko-comes-to-butte.html

Dr. Anna Chacko left St. James a few months after James Kiser left.

Here's what happened to her ...after she left there and went to the Pittsburgh VA.

Dr. Anna Chacko took over as head of the Pittsburgh VA in October of
2008. Almost immediately, colleagues and other staff filed formal
complaints about her behavior.

This included complaints about bullying, threatening, lying, and refusing to do her required clinical work. In March of this year, things came to a head. An administrative investigative board was formed to determine of Dr. Chacko should be removed. In April, that was the recommendation of the board.

At this point, Dr. Anna Chacko reached out to Congressman Brad Miller.

Miller has his own history with the Pittsburgh VA. He lead an investigation in the Science Sub Committee he leads into a destroyed strand of legionella at this Pitt VA. That investigation concluded in September of 2008. The conclusion was scathing in its criticism of Dr. Mona Melhem. Dr. Melhem is an administrator at this Pittsburgh VA.

It appears that Dr. Chacko was able to convince Miller that her potential ouster was all being orchestrated by Dr. Melhem. I say this because that's exactly what Congressman Miller said in a letter dated May 15 to General Shinseki, head of the VA. He encouraged Shinseki to
reinstate Chacko and instead investigate the Pittsburgh VA itself. In fact, a couple weeks later Shinseki's office did override the Pittsburgh VA and had them reinstate Chacko.

Upon her return, Chacko's behavior didn't change. Once again, complaints were formally filed and they reached as high as the office of the regional director, Michael Moreland. Finally, in late October, Dr. Anna Chacko was put on indefinite leave and another investigative board was convened. She hasn't returned to the Pittsburgh VA. I can provide the name of a congressional source that can verify all this.

I am including the letter I referenced. I'm also including court filings from Butte, Mt. This is a civil case of Kristi George V Dr. Anna Chacko. George worked with Chacko at St. James hospital in Butte, immediately previous to Chacko working at the Pitt VA. George accuses Chacko of the same kind of behavior as she was accused of at the Pitt VA. In fact, I've tracked Chacko and this is all part of a pattern of behavior for decades but that's a whole separate story.

Here's a local story about George's suit.

http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2007/11/10/butte/hjjciiijjiijji.txt

As you will see from the court filing, Kiser didn't due his due diligence in protecting
George from Chacko.

http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-dr-anna-chacko-played-congressman.html

Source: www.MontanaFront.com
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Melinda Gopher is seeking the State of Montana's sole Congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"Melinda Gopher, 44, an Ojibwe / Blackfeet from Missoula, Montana is seeking the State of Montana's sole Congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. While many glass ceilings have been shattered; a Native American woman has yet to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

Gopher's running as a progressive Democrat and focusing her campaign on jobs. The current recession has hit Montana's communities hard, even though the state unemployment rate is not as critical as the overall national rate of 10%; it is deceiving. Montana does not count long term unemployed workers who have given up.

Melinda is a civil rights activist, and blogger. She is a Paralegal but decided to run for the U.S. House believing she can make a difference in the nation's capitol. Melinda Gopher believes the nation does not have to choose between cap and trade and carbon taxation as revenue raising; rather, clean energy must be pursued to create jobs no matter what.

Melinda supports the Employee Free Choice Act as a means for keeping American labor strong. She believes corporations have gone unchecked, and have had a negative impact in DC. This has led to the loss of jobs and outsourcing of jobs to artificially inflate corporate profit margins. Gopher believes exploiting labor forces in foreign countries is detrimental to the world economy in the long term. Loss of workers' rights has created unfair trade policies between the U.S., China, India to point to a few examples. Corporate exploitation and economic coercion do not create win/win partnerships: something Gopher wants to create.

Gopher supports overhauling the nation's ailing housing sector. She believes the low-income are mired in HUD programs of the past. Not enough of the nation's low and middle income people are building personal wealth equity--resulting in lost economic power and a declining tax base. She believes there must be revolutionary changes in the national housing policy that will reverse the housing crisis. She would enact laws ending financial apartheid in America, and ban policies mired in the FHA redlining legacy. She vows to "pick up where Bobby Kennedy left off" in ending American poverty.

Melinda is the spouse of a combat disabled veteran and cares about veteran issues. She believes the VA ratings system is broken, she currently supports the efforts of national veterans groups to work with Montana Senator Jon Tester to fix the system so that it works for veterans.

Melinda Gopher is a long time civil rights, tribal sovereignty, and environmental activist. She believes HUD has been a weak institutional home for civil rights and supports the creation of a cabinet level agency for civil rights. She believes state-by-state laws on gay marriage are the wrong approach and unjust. She believes the federal government must beef up the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Amendments to include sweeping protections for gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals.

Melinda Gopher points out, "the black codes are a disgraceful part of America's past. The state-by-state approach are the black codes for the LGBT community, why are we tolerating this inequality?" She believes to ensure an end to discrimination against gays and to provide for their full civil rights--will require federal intervention as was done in the 1960s civil rights movement.

Melinda Gopher has been a civil rights practitioner since her early 20s. She was the only Native American panelist in the 1994 National Fair Housing Summit and worked to enact fair housing protections in Montana. Melinda Gopher has worked in the public and private sector on fair housing.

She believes the nation needs another Fair Housing Summit to address the subprime crisis. She points out, "not enough is being done to ensure Americans keep their homes, and participate in the American dream of homeownership."

Melinda Gopher knows her candidacy is improbable; she believes her voice is needed to address the lack of effective Native American leadership in the state Democratic party. She believes the Native Americans advancing in the political party pipeline in the state are tokens and are placed in positions where they are politically neutered.

She is a vocal critic of Senator Max Baucus's mishandling of state tribal issues, his failure to address long term and chronic unemployment in the state's seven Indian reservations and urban areas. She has criticized the Senator over taking single payer off the table in health care reform. Melinda Gopher is likely to challenge Baucus in 2014 when he comes up for re-election."
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TREATY RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF FEDERAL STIMULUS

"THE CHIPPEWA TRUTH COMMISSION:
AFFIRMING BILATERAL RIGHTS OF
TRIBAL PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE U.S/CANADA BORDER

There is a need to address bilateral treaty rights of four north central Montana bands, the Rocky Boy/Migisew, the Little Shell, the Metis and Little Bear Cree. This proposal calls for enrollment reform affecting the "Chippewa Cree Tribe." This is not really a tribe there are four entities affected by collective confusion that has reigned supreme over the identity of the Rocky Boy Band of Chippewa since it was initially recognized by Congress in 1908. Our proposal begins to fix the problem:

A CHIPPEWA TRUTH COMMISSION IS NEEDED: This is the first major step to enact and/or re-affirm Chippewa federal recognition in Montana affecting the Little Shell Band of Chippewa and the non-enrolled descendants of the original 1908 Rocky Boy Chippewa Band Roll.

A major component of the CHIPPEWA TRUTH COMMISSION would be to re-align the four tribal groups affected: the Rocky Boy Band, the Little Shell, the Little Bear Cree and the Riel Metis--where each group would enact their own self-government and operated under the Four Affiliated Bands of Chippewa, Cree and Metis. This seems to be the most fair and logical conclusion to the historic injustices that have afflicted the Chippewa people.

A component of this Truth Commission would be the study of legal implications of the Jay Treaty and the patterns of law and execution of official acts between the U.S. and Canada. The Little Bear and Riel descendants originated in Canada originally but were granted adoptee status in the Chippewa band in 1917—not by the Chippewa, but by the U.S. federal government. This was an overt act violating the sovereignty of the Chippewa people, this has never been mitigated.

The federal government has never corrected this contradiction: it has granted the benefits of tribal governance to essentially Canadian origin descendants, who are now a super-majority on the Rocky Boy reservation. The lineal Chippewa have been discredited, denied enrollment and participation in their own government. At the same time, the federal government has not acted to uphold legitimate treaty obligations owed the original Rocky Boy and Little Shell bands. We have been attempting to address this for years, federal officials refuse to hear us out.

The Little Shell experience similar denial of status; this is most evident in the BIA administrative ruling denying federal recognition to the band. The Little Shell and Rocky Boy bands are subject to U.S. Treaty--the Cree are subject to British Treaty #6, the Metis are subject to the Canadian Powley ruling--recognizing their rights as aboriginal people. There seems to be lack of consistent U.S. - Canadian policy affecting these bands with regard to consistent enrollment policies, treaty rights, freedom of movement and property rights.

The Chippewa Truth Commission will have a component to deal with and create ways for the U.S. and Canada to enact policies resolving these matters. This subcommittee will seek broad input and participation from the affected bands to ensure there is accuracy in the findings, and to ensure the dually held treaty and federal rights of all affected descendants are affirmed and upheld. In Montana, there are possibly 10,000-12,000 or more people affected by this situation. It does need to be resolved.

There has been reluctance from the “Chippewa Cree Business Committee” to resolve these legal issues: it is to their best interest to do so now for the reason U.S. BIA regulation requires 50% or more of a tribe come from a historic American tribe (treaty). In Rocky Boy, those lineal Chippewa descendants fall far below that 50% threshold. The re-formed 1917 roll did not meet that criteria in 1917, and it does not meet it now.

This has led to problems of profound loss of self-government of the Chippewa people. We no longer can ascertain our own blood quantum, we have lost all control of who the “Chippewa Cree” enroll. We the lineal Chippewa, cannot even ensure our own children are enrolled. The “Chippewa Cree” generic term has become something of a joke; no other “tribe” is run like this one.

All tribes have enrollment laws based on original descent from a tribal census conducted at the time of treaty—the Chippewa Cree roll is the sole exception. The ¼ or more “any Indian” blood quantum in the Chippewa Cree Tribal constitution has led to the demise of the Chippewa people.

A beginning framework would look like this: This commission would operate for five years, enact tribal enrollment reform within one year of operation, begin to address the need for preservation of tribal histories, and develop written recommendations to the Canadian and U.S. governments on ways to strengthen, and build cohesive and mutually held policies regarding the Jay Treaty. This commission would require extensive staff working to document the historic origins of all tribes and to compile archives relating to these tribal peoples’ historic origins. In addition, the commission would work to enact tribal enrollment reform that would serve as the basis of the re-configured Affiliated Tribal governments structure, propose and provide assistance in forming governing documents, researching and coordinating treaty adhesions in Canada and finalizing recognition for the U.S. bands.

THE CREATION OF A U.S.-CANADA TRIBAL ENERGY CARTEL

We have a situation of a quarter dozen tribal groups affected by the international boundary, Loud Thunder believes this is not only a resolvable issue—but that these tribal groups can prosper in the future. Loud Thunder believes in cohesive policy in addressing energy development and these and a multitude of bands on both sides of the border have a stake in developing ecologically sustainable development.

There are great concerns regarding the current tar sands development north of the Montana border in Canada. Canada is a major provider of oil to the U.S. This will increase in the future. Loud Thunder learned in the Zortman Landsusky mining struggle for the need for effective reclamation planning and implementation. This is true in the tar sands issue. This is development creating acid rain and lasting damage to the land and water.

Loud Thunder asks the Obama administration to take into consideration the long term reclamation of sites in Canada and cooperate in frameworks of agreement with these Canadian bands, the Canadian government and our interests in the U.S. As this development is already underway—that both governments have a responsible reclamation policies that encompass tribal traditional views of the land.

For this reason, Loud Thunder is advocating a bilateral, tribal energy consortium, or cartel—similar in scope to OPEC. This is one way these two Eurocentric sovereigns can begin to restore native people. Tribal nations have a joint economic and policy interest in ensuring their energy potentialities are not exploited, that are mutually beneficial and expresses shared goals of all tribes. Loud Thunder is proposing a multi-billion dollar investment in this bilateral energy cartel focusing on tribal fossil, wind, solar, bio-mass and other forms of renewable energy. Second, this cartel has a strong reclamation component in the case of tar sand development, and addresses cap and trade concerns. Loud Thunder expresses support for the need for U.S. and Canadian investment in reclamation technology and direct investment in tribes to do this.

WIND ENERGY

In Montana, there is a huge potential for wind energy on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Loud Thunder expresses support for the creation of a national laboratory on refining tribal energy proposals—a training ground and incubator of sorts—so that all tribes throughout the northern continent and into Mexico, can cultivate their energy independence, learn and share their experiences and lessen tribal dependence on foreign oil.

In Great Falls, the Little Shell tribal descendants are unequaled in their work ethic, their experience along with the “Hill 57 Rocky Boy unenrolled and Migisew Chippewa on the Montana fire crews are a testament to this. For this reason, Loud Thunder is supporting the creation of a jointly owned wind turbine manufacturing and service/repair corporation, and solar energy technology center to develop the wind and solar energy capability of these two urban situated groups. These groups can create lasting and good paying jobs in the Great Falls area now and in the future. Loud Thunder is proposing the renovation and retrofitting of the large warehouse formerly used by the Buttrey’s food chain as the site of the proposed plant. The site is adjacent to the interstate and rail system. This would create the kind of green jobs now needed, and for which stimulus funds are intended.

RECLAMATION TECHNOLOGY

In the Fort Belknap region, there is a need for reclamation of water and earth as the result of the Zortman mining operation. Reclamation work can last multiple years. The Gros Ventres and Asiniboine tribes have lost their sacred mountain. They need to be able to pick up their lives and repair the earth that is sacred to them. The state and federal government have been slow to reclaim the site. In addition, Ft. Belknap is an excellent area for wind energy development, Loud Thunder expresses support for existing and new proposals for development. There are a host if sites around the state and on tribal land, including the coal mining on and near the Crow Reservation, where the need for reclamation is on-going, requiring investment and jobs.

MEDIA TECHNOLOGY

Loud Thunder is proposing a media technology center to be located in Great Falls, Montana, and jointly owned and operated by the Rocky Boy and Chippewa bands located there. There has been a dire need for Native American access to modern media technology to document and preserve tribal culture. This media technology center can work to ensure native people have use new media to the benefit of their economic an educational efforts. A center like this is needed to enhance electoral engagement, and to understand and articulate issues around them. Native American youth are victims of the digital divide, resulting in loss of life opportunities and underrepresentation in the mainstream media.

NATIONAL FLAG CENTER ON HILL 57

There is a need to understand the French-Ojibwe-Colonial history; this is a deeply misunderstood era in American history. This proposal calls for a National Flag Center on Hill 57 to articulate Ojibwe tribal historic origins and the tribe’s role in founding of the United States. The concept is built around the medicine bundle 13 star colonial flag kept by the Gopher family. The flag evokes an era of nation-to-nation relationships; when tribal sovereignty was paramount to the founding of the U.S. The basis of this proposal, in its early stages, calls for 1.8 million, and up to 4 million for land consolidation on the Hill 57 area, and an additional 5 million to build this long sought after center to honor America’s first flag.

TRIBAL SMALL BUSINESS INITIATIVE

Loud Thunder expresses support for creation of a fund of 100 million seed grant/loan fund for the creation of small business in Montana tribal and urban communities. This pool will be run by an equally tribal representative governing Economic Development Authority. Small business creation is vastly underfunded in Montana tribal communities, it is virtually non-existent among urban Indian communities. This fund will ensure tribal businesses are properly funded to ensure these communities can begin to address profound unemployment in their communities. This fund will be available to the low tech to the high tech firm.

NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN’S BUSINESS INITIATIVE

Loud Thunder supports the creation of a $50 million small business experimental seed grant/loan fund geared toward Native Women owned businesses in Montana. This would equal unprecedented business development where it is needed most: Native American women are among the poorest of American citizens, are often the heads of households and lack collateral to start their own business. "
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Native American Veteran Initiative

"The Montana Win/Win project is preparing a Native American veteran initiative to work with Senator Tester and national veteran organizations toward national legislation addressing the need to fix the veteran disability rating system. The Montana Win/Win Veteran's Initiative is a major step to ensure Native American veteran's voices are heard at the national level. Further details on this new emerging effort will be posted here. "
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Loud Thunder to Sponsor Formation of Native Wind Energy Project

"Loud Thunder International in partnership with native businesses is sponsoring a proposal for a major wind energy project to be located in Great Falls, Montana. The proposal is in draft, it will be made available--check here for updates."
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Peace Flag Project - Mary Gopher Parenteau Announces Montana Win/Win Network.

"Following the successful example of the Washington state effort to create cross-issue organizing to defeat TABOR (a regressive taxpayer bill of rights) and yes to Referendum 71 (on domestic partnership); minority, women and the LGBTQ constituents were able to protect mutual interests, and advance their own interests in the political arena.

Loud Thunder International is initiating the Montana Win/Win effort to ensure that these communities engage in cross-issue organizing for the 2010 elections and beyond. This non-profit effort will engage a cross section of communities of color, women, the LGBTQ community, business and labor interests as never before.

This work will be difficult at times, but doable. We may not agree on every issue--but we will ensure that all voices are heard, and respected. Loud Thunder International will advance the progressive agenda on the Montana ballots now, and in the future. We will work to build an informed constituency throughout Indian country, as well as serve as a liason between Indian country and other interests.

We will work to build a progressive agenda on the local, state, and national levels that respects the growing diversity of our nation. We will ask all constituencies to engage in the public discourse of our nation as never before. All voices matter, all voices count. We want to start out by identifying our community efforts that are organizational sponsored, and where we will be seeking partnerships.

Loud Thunder has in the past initiated Red Thunder, Inc., a non-profit that spurred Ft. Belknap residents and the indigenous environmental movement into action to halt cyanide heap leach gold mining just outside the reservation.

This effort began in 1990 and mushroomed. Loud Thunder's Founder, Robert Gopher produced and directed "Indian Tears of Love," to draw awareness to the Gros Ventres and Assiniboine peoples' struggle. In 1996, I-122 increased requirements for cleaner water discharged from mines, but was defeated. This year also saw the largest settlement of its kind in state history; Pegasus Gold would pay 37 million as a result of its non-compliance with federal and state clean water laws. In 1998, Montanans passed I-137, banning new cyanide mines in the state.

There is a need to enact a reclamation economy, as was done in Bonner, MT--post timber industry--on the borders of the Fort Belknap reservation. This is one way to foster cross community collaboration and create meaningful and good paying jobs. A reclamation economy is essential in restoring Historic Hill 57, a culturally and historically significant site recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. There are no doubt other significant sites throughout Indian country in Montana and nationwide that are in need of long term reclamation.
Our sponsored efforts to expand the Montana progressive agenda are:

Montana Jobs Coalition--Loud Thunder is fostering collaboration with like minded organizations to respond to the unprecendented unemployment and lack of job growth at the present time.

Montana Win/Win--this effort will focus on issues organizing and development to ensure Native Americans are fully networked with local, state, and national progressive movements.

Migisew-Asiniweyin Economic Development Corporation--the effort here includes a mix of economic development strategies, including creation of a CDFI structure to serve Montana's urban Indian communities, and grant funding to develop statewide non-profit organizations to address poverty reduction in affected communities.

13 Star Peace Flag Project--this is a local project in Great Falls, MT of national significance. The project attempts to reclaim and preserve Hill 57 because it is a symbol of the tragic federal tribal termination policies in America.

The Win/Win project will organize voting constituencies and engage in issues development to promote lasting social change.
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Melinda Gopher - An Open Letter to President Obama from Hill 57 Montana to the White House

"As the second youngest of eight children of an Ojibwe family, I grew up on Hill 57, outside of Great Falls, Montana. I lived in a two room house, more like a shack. It was put together with scrap lumber, Hill 57 was a collection of such ramshackle homes strung together with dirt roads. The bitter Montana winds feel merciless when you are a child living in these conditions. Still, our home was warmed by a wood stove.

Hill 57 existed due to federal denial of a trust obligation owed the Ojibwe people; we were allies of George Washington's forces. We were and still are; proud people. Hill 57 epitomized Indian poverty in America. Hill 57 was rivaled only by the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; a contest with no winner.

Our historic alliance with the French paved the way for the assertion of American independence. As our tribe lost more and more lands, with each successive treaty, our people were pushed deeper into land dispossession, deeper into an inescapable poverty. If the Ojibwe are a tribe on the winning side of a revolution; I cannot imagine losing. I can only envision that would entail total extermination. This is an ugly and undeniable skeleton in the American closet.

The historic Migisew clan of the mighty Ojibwe tribe were reduced to a small square of land; less than a half mile total. Eventually the county tax collector got that too; as the federal government provided no trust oversight. This defined my existence growing up. It took me a lifetime of effort to understand and study the origins of the Ojibwe-French-Colonial relationship in the context of Revolution. America has never been a nation of fairness.

Our democratic ideals are just that--empty ideals. The course of history has proven the American system to be grossly out of sync with the lofty ideals of liberty, freedom--and the principal of equality. This is not to diminish the worthiness of these ideals; indeed, we must strive for our perfection now more than ever. We as a nation are now forced to look at our collective face in the mirror. It is not a pretty site.

We are at an arc in time, whose arrival is unprecedented and pregnant with incredible timing; this momentous point in our collective existence screams "teaching moment." This arc finds American society reaching the ideological, economic, and spiritual limits of our dysfunctional democracy. We can see the situation unfolding in Afghanistan after eight long years--the waste of throwing more human lives into this abyss makes our hypocrisy inescapable.

Draping the Obama change mantle over this protracted conflict does not make a troop increase acceptable, ethical or moral. Some of us have not forgotten, this war was never a legal war in the sense of engaging a state actor who engaged in an act of war against us.

The difference between a terrorist act and an act of war is not nuanced and subject to interpretation. Foundational principles of international law were thrown out the window by then-President Bush, and it is these laws that govern the global community. We are a pariah, it is as true then as it is now. As a woman candidate for the U.S. House, I am proud to carry Jeannette Rankin's tradition of pacifism. This is rooted in my upbringing.

In a sense, those of us who embraced the Obama change mantra have had a bruising coming of age this past year. It is clear the hopeful campaigner has fallen short of his change message. We need to look at the reasons why, so that we can course correct. It was hard to attack a message of hope, indeed my own campaign is premised on the hope message.

There is nothing wrong with hope, in fact, sometimes that is all we have. It is wrong to abandon hope, to curtail change that is within our grasp, largely due to our own internal conflict, fear, and unwillingness to evolve. This describes the Democrats in Congress. I dare say, Congressional Democrats are still stuck in the Bush era group think of the fear-mongering past. Bold actions are needed now, self doubt is not a luxury we have. We all know action to fix the economy is needed now. Jobs are needed now. People are homeless and hungry right now.

Roughly half a year has been consumed on the health care debate, this is a time waster of poorly thought out priorities in the face of unprecedented job losses. This is a mismanaged effort--because of the manner in which the Senate Finance Committee and its Chairman Baucus--have mishandled this legislation. American families awaken every day and look at their credit card debt, dwindling resources, foreclosure, homelessness, joblessness and hunger. This IS the fierce urgency of now.

Campaign for America's Future blogged about the dim prospects surrounding the jobs summit, and the apparent unwillingness of your White House to expand the stimulus. If your administration has another strategy, such as supporting the Dorgan-Durbin jobs bill--please by all means clue us in. The American people need to know now.

Doing nothing is not an option. Hosting a jobs summit, while leaking the White House's limited efforts, and announcing an Afghanistan troop increase in the same week is poor planning, it reflects the hope train has flown off the tracks. I am worried. Here in Missoula, I have never seen people living out of their old RVs, pitching tents out of sight in the trees along the Clark Fork River, to the extent as I have this year. It is not uncommon to see bedding stashed off beside this city's busy walking trails.

Winter is here, along the bottoms of Waterworks Hill hiking trail, just off I-90, the homeless pitched their tents in the trees earlier this fall. On a recent hike, I glanced to see them sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags, huddled against the brisk evening air of Montana. People are living in their vans and cars in Missoula, Montana. This city has an unprecedented number of homeless children in the school district. One recent day, my family member wandered into a local church to find out this church's pews overflow at night.

People have nowhere else to sleep; a good number of these homeless are Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. It makes no difference to them that our ranking Senator is Chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, and our junior Senator is on the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs. Their stature has not provided this city and other cities in Montana, with the means to address growing homelessness, poverty, and despair. This is America of 2009. America: 2009 is your Hill 57. Please, Mr. President--you must do more right now."
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McKay Family vs The Wilderness Club. The Montana Courts Dish Out another attack on Civil Rights, Privacy Violations and Stand with Big Money and Clout

a Bit the Latest Court Ruling Against the McKay Family and for the Multi-Million Dollar Big Bully Resort the Ruined their Life, Ruined their Equity and more...
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Remember in 2006 when we talked about the Horrible Harassment's of the Wilderness Club Resort against one Family in Eureka Montana who had lived here long - long before the Wilderness Club decided to make Eureka Montana their home. This family created a life, they had a peaceful home, a couple horse, was quietly raising their kids and had worked for decades to create a life.

Along comes the Wilderness Club Resort, the Norcal Group, Nick Faldo, and a Local Realtor who owned a large chunk of land and Lodge with investors out of Japan. Money started flowing, trees started falling, and HUGE amounts of water started flowing. With these Rich Golf Greens, and Amazing amount of Groundwater usage came the need for Fertilizer, for Lawn Mowers, for lots of Commercial Equipment to keep this look up in order to attract the Elite, the Big Names in Golf, the Oil Money, the Actors and all who were a being seduced to by land for $750,000 an acre in the Wilderness Club Resort.

So there was a need for a Large Commercial Building and it needed to be far away so that the Residence of the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana would not have to see the Building, Smell the HUGE amount of Fertilizer or be exposed to the Intense Noise and Lights of it all. So the Wilderness Club Resort chose to put this HUGE building to the back of the resort on a parcel of land that was just outside of the Wilderness Club Resort Development. This land bordered the resort but was in the Koocanusa Estates Subdivision.

This land was in a subdivision with restrictive covenant, covenants in which the landowners had obeyed even to the loss of their own business and to their hardship, still they obeyed the covenants for a VERY long time. Then this above the Law - Big Bully Resort pushes their way in, builds what they want, violates the covenants and no one can do anything. Koocanusa Estates landowners had meetings about it, they complained about it and no one cared.

This obnoxious, toxic building that violated the covenants was placed right next to one family the McKay family that had lived in the subdivision and had made a life there, it ruined their way of life forever and began an all out war that took more then money.

The McKay Family Spoke up right away, reached out for help right away and well they got very little support and certainly no justice. In the beginning the Wilderness Club was told to STOP construction, a judge ordered them to STOP all construction, and well they violated this and once again were above the law. They kept building almost as if they knew nothing would ever be done, they would never be held accountable, and they would never have to remove the building.

In the Beginning, Koocanusa Estate owners asked many questions of water, well issues and were constantly reassured by the Wilderness Club owners, and people who spoke for them. In the summer of 2006 people were already experience rocks coming up in the wells and other water issues. They were promised that if their wells went dry that the Wilderness Club Resort would drill them a new one. One Contractor told me that the state data for the Wilderness Club Subdivision came from a different aquifer then the one the resort is using.

There is definitely alot of water used to keep that property green year round for a very few people. And this DOES affect the neighborhood, many have lost water pressure and this is a real threat to water issues in that area. Not to mention the HUGE amount of fertilizer going into the Lake Koocanusa ground shed.

The Residence complained about the noise, the Covenant violations and none were heard.

Now Magnify the intens Light 24 hours Issue, the Fertilizer Toxins - Fumes and Poisons - the Noise - the Dust - and the Covenant Violations and bring it right up to your bedroom window, bring it right on in to your horses barn, see those HUGE lights in your horses eyes all night, watch your dogs suffer from being shot, your home broke into and the fight of your life all because you wanted Big Money to have to follow the same Laws, the Same Covenants, the Same Civil Rights that you adhere to. You speak up for your rights as your life has become a toxic living hell, a constant fight and your life is changed forever, you have not the money to move and you have to suffer through all this.

Once you Speak up the War is on bigger then you could have imagined as the workers, the guards, the Resort - all launch a constant harassment attack on you, your family, your dogs, your horses and all because you asked for dignity and respect and you asked the Big Money obey the Same Laws and Decent Respect that you yourself obey.

Meanwhile your land is stripped of trees and an Easement out of no where is forced on you, and the Realtor involved with your Original Sale, is the one giving the orders to not only cut down your trees but to take them, and the revenue along with it. Your life lay in ruins, you stand up and fight and you get the Montana Court System Smack down.

You Finally get a jury trial and over a million dollars awarded in punitive, then a local judge overturns the Million dollars, and leaves intact the value of your house at the time of $350,000, the Wilderness Club attorney VERY - VERY connected to the Realtor who is really behind all this damage done to you, well they vow to get this overturned and well, a year later they do in the Montana Supreme Court. Your rights violated and no one cares.

Most Montanans have given up on getting justice, giving up on the Truth meaning anything and the violation of property rights, well I get emails on that issue all the time. You simply have no rights. You have to do what the Money and Politics of your area says you will do. There is nothing you can do about it in the Reality of Real Estate.

The McKay family complained and fought for their right as soon as possible, yet media outlets and court writings seem to say they let this go on and said nothing, therefore they have no rights.. and this is Simply Not True.

Remember when this ion Dollar Dollar judgement by Jury trial was overturned? I mean as I said then why waste the tax payers money on a Jury Trial if a Judge can overturn it. Why not let the Judge make the Decision in the First Place?

Laws Simply Cannot Be Enforced. One tends to give up completely on even trying, however, that should not stop the compassion for standing up for the McKay Family who have taken this disgraceful abuse by the Hands of Nick Faldo, the Wilderness Club LLC and all involved with letting this happen or standing by and doing nothing.

Those Who Know me know that Blogging about the McKays Harassment, Bullying, Civil Rights Violations, Real Estate Rights Taken and quality of life was my first real blog topic when it comes to Eureka Montana.

You see at that time in 2006 I had just really began Internet Marketing. And all the local hype was about the Wilderness Club and how great they were. Being a Real Estate Broker Owner I Began to Market local golf property on my sites, www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com was one of those sites. I had Positive information on the site about the Wilderness Club, talking about the resort, about press releases and well it was ALL positive.

However, because I came up higher in the Search Engines then they did, and without embracing that by emailing me and saying great job here is more information on us or anything at all from them to contact me in a friendly manner, they simply sent me a Cease and Desist letter stop talking about them.

My words were positive even though at the time I was hearing alot of negative stories, and so their attack on me for my Positive Site, well with that I decided to go ahead and write about the issues that people were telling me about. And a week or so later I got calls and emails from the residence in the Koocanusa Estates Community telling me of their concerns with the Wilderness Club.

I went and visited the site, took photos, and talked with many residence, this Story is very real, it has been going on for years and another case of Montana Locals having no rights over the Bullying of Realtors - their Clout or the Big Money of Resorts that move into Montana Communities and violate property rights.

The Story changes over time as these things go, however at the time many neighbors emailed me and many felt violated. The dust, the noise the harassment was unbearable for many in the Koocanusa Estates Subdivision. The building of the Wilderness Club Resort disturbed the quality of life of many, especially the McKay family who who were constantly harassed deliberate harassing lights pointed at their home 24 hours a day, 24 hour noise from HUGE generators, truck noise right next to their home oftentimes exaggerated as the war between the Wilderness Club and those Demanding their Right, their Quality of Life and the Civil rights... were harassed to unspeakable levels.

The Wilderness Club caved in the McKays Property by coming right up to the boundary and beyond the flagging, this caved in roads they used on their property and it caved in their horse area and the way they drove to take them hay. This was VERY bad, I have some photos I may share later.

In the Montana Court System at every level, the Wilderness Club continues to win as did WR Grace, however that does not change the the Truth, that Does not change the facts of what has happened. And I want you Know the Truth, just because theMcKays lost in the Court System does not mean that they are not telling the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but, because they are. The Truth is the Truth regardless of the Million Dollar Court system smack down. The people affected by this are real, the neighborhood suffering is real. And the Wilderness Club is above the law.

Tungsten Holdings violates Property Rights of Land Owners all the time, they use the Montana Court system to do it, they get your land cheap and force easements through other peoples properties. I get stories often of how Tungsten Holdings harasses and takes advantages of people, they could not do this if there was Consumer Protection in Real Estate or if the Montana Court System better protected the Rights of Land owner.

Since the Wilderness Club harassing the McKay Family, Stealing Trees, Violating their Property Rights.. well I have seen the inside of other lawsuits within the real estate courts and so with this there really was no doubt that the McKays would lose, the attorneys all know each other and the court system is all inner connected, the Realtors Clout and the Relationship between the attorneys and the Realtors is VERY anti-consumer and bad for real estate, add that to local political clout and fiduciary interest in the property the Wilderness Club is on and long term "in money" and you have the perfect storm to keep smacking down folks like the McKay Family. Nothing you can do, however, you do deserve to know the real story of all this.

The law and the truth is not a factor in these cases, it is Opinion and who you know. And when you have a Realtor that is connected to everyone in the County, as well as a Top Name in Golf, and lots of money - well the Truth - Who Cares about That. The Realtor involved in this did request the removal of the trees, did lie to the landowners, and did tell them there was nothing they could do about it. You see the Realtor is a Name, he has money, clout, land and the works so who would believe the McKays. They just don't talk the part, they don't dress the part and well for some that means they don't have any rights they don't matter and will not be protected. I got their story heard years ago and will continue to tell you new developments as you have a right to know what is really going on.

The Wilderness Club, including Nick Faldo claimed that they did not know about the issues, the slash pile, the trees being cut.. at the time all of this was happening and well soon after this all came up, their was a photo of them in their own media that showed Nick and Barry standing near the Slash Pile in front of the McKays House.

After the WR Grace Trial, What I have Witnessed with Real Estate Rights in Montana Real Estate Lawsuits, and all I have seen over the last 3 years it is No Real Surprise that the Montana Supreme Court overturned the last of the McKay Settlement. You have no Real Estate Right, Property Rights in Montana. I mean look at the times now with 40 to 60 percent loss in home values, short sales and foreclosures everywhere and property assessment and thereby property taxes going up. The State of Montana has no interest in your Property Rights, read the lawsuits, look at the violations your being Served up.

And most of the Real Estate Cases that are this bad, well you never see them because the E and O insurance of the "Realtors" and the Corruption - Payoffs - Affiliations among real estate attorneys forces the Real Estate Victims to settle after years of fighting and then makes them sign paperwork that they will not talk about all this, so the Real Estate Consumer, the Taxpayers out there, well you don't know what is really going on because the story never gets told.

So the Moxy of the McKay family is Exposing the Corruption and Injustice in the Montana Court System that is Stripping You all of your Property Rights, your Civil Rights is something to be commended. I am proud of the McKay family for Standing against this tyranny and being bold enough to go to court after court after they keep getting lied to, lied about, shut down, and put in their place and on top of all that they Lose !!! again and again.

In cases such as these, the justice system basically asks of you just sit down and shut up, and when you do then other victims to be and victims past, well they are silenced right along with you. Tell the Truth folks, Don't Let the Lies Win.

There is nothing you can do about it. Odds are you won't win, that is just the constant war against the real estate consumer, you have no rights. Really, companies Like Tungsten Holdings can bully you, force easements and the courts protect them. Big Resorts come in and ruin the quality of life of residence that lived in the area for decades and NOTHING can be done.

However, telling the Story helps those suffering in silence, the real estate victims out there not being heard, being smacked down and having no one in their corner.

These real estate wars, and lawsuits ruin lives, and when your in the right, have all the proof and get constantly betrayed, lied about, and made to look as a fool - well this takes your health, your home, your mind, your family, your marriage and causes unthinkable damage.

The Wilderness Club even has New Founders, new Owners right? I mean the websites used to talk about Norcal Group, Faldo Design, Schmidt-Curley Design and the other players on my Original Site www.WildernessClubSubdivision.com . And now theWildernessClub.com site claims that the owners and founders are Susan and Jim Banister, guess I just missed their name back then. Have they been there all along, did they condone this ruining of the lives of this innocent Family. Did Susan and Jim Banister even know the True Story or did they buy the lies told to them. Does Susan Banister and Jim Banister care about what has been endured by this family at the hands of the Wilderness Club and the Realtor who ran them over? Is there no sense of decency or morals at the Wilderness Club Montana?

So many rumors have circulated around this case one is of the issue of the Connection between the judge and the attorney. Probably not true, however, is it time for the McKay family to get a new attorney? I mean back then it was said that the Attorney had her home threatened by and she herself was noted as not denying the stories of possibly threats from the Wilderness Club.

Since this time also there have been lawsuits with Tree Companies in Idaho, and controversy of Illegal Immigrants and other issues with the Wilderness Club Resort, still above the Law. They think that people would love to live in a place that has done this to people. A lovely vacation in beautiful Northwest Montana at the Expense of How Many.

What do they say when clients or buyers ask about all this, do they say I am lying, the McKays are just trying to get money, all the other victims are lying? I mean how does the Wilderness Club Montana justify the Injustice, the Cruelty they have dished for years onto this family?

Well I am writing on this Now again, because the Last of the Montana McKay - Supreme Court Smackdown hit the Courts Last Week as the McKay family lost the last of it.

http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_039dc492-df84-11de-adfb-001cc4c002e0.html

The McKay family is reported as to plan to keep going on this fight for justice, though so far they have been stopped at every important juncture.

Now it seems the courts are saying the Wilderness Club had an easement, well the easement they claim is something to really be examined, and in that note when you look at google earth and some of the old roads that show up there it makes you wonder why doesn't the public have a right to drive through that property in many locations, why is there one easement forced, trees stolen, privacy lost and this is all legal and just yet all the other roads in that area .. well they just don't exist.

It is all about deals in back alleys, big money - the Total Lack of Concern or Integrity by the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana and the undeniable fact that Property Owners have NO Rights, no matter how much proof they have - Affiliations, Insurance, Big Companies, Realtors, Politics - that is what matters. .. You Lose !!!
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The Wilderness Club Montana Resort in Eureka Montana is on the Wrong Side of the Moral Compass on this One and No One Seems to Care or really be able to do anything. There is no accountability in site and a Win after a Win in the Montana Courts.
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Well We Stand by the Truth and We Stand Behind the McKay Family Forever. The McKay family is telling the Truth, it did happen just they way they say and just because you do not believe it or the courts knock it down does not mean that it is not True.
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Bless You Craig McKay and Lisa McKay.
Bless all of you terrorized by the Wilderness Club Resort in Eureka Montana.
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Shame on the Wilderness Club Montana and all who participated in the Ruining of the Life the McKay Family Once Had.

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