Is he coming by boat???

No Missoula, Bozeman or billings tours. Hmmm afraid what the majority of the people in MT have to say about testers logging bill. The tours are only in southwestern MT yet the tester logging bill effects all of western MT.

Hey Denny why are'nt you fighting those outside meddlers from making decisions in MT. The tester bill puts decisions about MT forests in the hands of politicians in washington. Denny fights NREPA which was created in MT, supported in MT and would place decisions in the hands of the people of MT. Funny how Denny will probally support this bill which will establish outsiders control of MT, the very thing Denny claims he's fighting against. Keep supporting these lying politicians and they will continue to walk all over you. Tester is being applauded as a progressive for breaking campign promises about protecting ALL reamining roadless areas. That broken promise (LIE) was the only way he won the election. Denny claims he's fighting against outsiders controlling MT yet he will support tester's bill which places unprecedented conrol of MT forests in the hands of outsiders.
Have a backbone citiznes of MT, you can do better than these liars.

Denny subdivided his family's ranch,

He's a rich liar who is just a tool of big industry.

nuff said.

haha

This is like the Iranian president scheduling a "free speech" tour.

I see a lot of bashing of our elected representatives and our civil service bureaucrats. I do it a lot myself. Rehberg gets a lot and deserves it. Most of it deserve it; but, at the risk of writing something nobody is going to read, I would suggest stepping back, looking at the history, and how these people, as a class, got to be so worthy of our irritation with them.

I'm old now. I've had a substantial amount of experience with DC, the federal and state governments, and with the agency's and their civil service personnel. I can also remember the conversations between my father and his colleagues and even my grandfather and his generation.

There was a time when an elected or appointed government position or even a civil service merit position was a prestigious and well paid plum. Of course with some exceptions, primarily only "the very best and brightest," with outstanding educations fairly earned through their own hard study, could hope to compete for these highly desirable positions. This tradition of public service was reformed, restored, and polished, in different cycles, by both TR and FDR and reinvented and elevated again during the heyday of JFK, Averell Harriman, and others during those truly progressive and intellectually elite times.

That tradition of intellectually elite public service gave America much of what we can realistically be proud of... the National Park Service, national parks and national forests, public education, workers' rights, workplace safety regulations, building codes, environmental protection, food and drug safety, product safety, social security, civil rights, and lots more. But, not everybody was happy with these accomplishments. National parks and national forests interfered with mining and logging and abusive carnival-style concessions like snowmobiles and "mosickle" riding. Good quality public education created voters who understood the issues and could then interfere with would-be feudal lords and their activities. The lords wanted a workforce with no options but to work according to their rules, at the rate they wanted to pay, or starve; workers' rights and social security provided options. Workplace safety regulations, building codes, environmental protection, food and drug safety, and product safety were just expensive burdens and legislating civil rights was just downright annoying to the "big boys."

So, thirty years ago, the would-be feudal lords finally organized an effective response. They took a second rate ne'er-do-well actor, who had previously infiltrated the Screen Actors Guild to squash progressive voices there; funded his rise; got him elected; and gave him an action hero script to act out. In his action hero role, he vilified government and public service, began a process that would hold civil service salaries to a flatter curve than "the best and the brightest" could get elsewhere, made public service degrading, and, over time, destroyed the tradition of intellectually elite public service.

Today, even those of us who cherish the accomplishments of those bygone progressive public sector, often unintentionally continue the work of that contemptible little actor by bashing the dregs that are now all that is left of a once proud tradition of public service. We drink the kool-aid, bash them at every opportunity and demand that their salaries stay at levels far below what decently educated and intelligent professionals could earn working for the very firms they're supposed to regulate on our behalf. Think about it.

Let's look at how this all works out in DC itself. It costs a lot to live in DC; all those "entrepreneurial" contractors (would-be feudal lords) make so much money that it has driven the cost of living right through the roof. You can get quite a pastoral estate in Billings for the price of even a one-bedroom efficiency condo anywhere within a hour's commute of the Capitol. What does this mean? It means 1) that, again, any of those decently educated and intelligent professionals that we might want administering our government as civil servants are either working for the would-be feudal lords or forced to kowtow to them just to survive and 2) that the same goes for elected officials. The difference between what an elected official gets paid and what it takes to live properly and with any dignity in DC is so great that some members of the House and the Senate as well actually live on cots in their offices and bath at the gym ...and we complain about their free health care. Do you think the very best and the brightest are going to live this way, uncorrupted, long enough to gain any seniority? Think about the cost of an election campaign or a re-election campaign. Where does that money come from in the case an uncorrupted candidate?

The truth is that, by listening to that contemptible little actor and others like him, we have created a system in which, barring a freak miracle, our elected officials must be either already wealthy (already a feudal lord) or corrupt or both in order to survive long enough to gain any real power. Yes, Dennis Rehberg is a detestable puke; but, we're the ones who ensured that only a detestable puke could occupy his position for any amount of time.

Term limits? Sure, that just drops the question into the hands of the highest paid advertising team. You can take my word for it; I know.

You guys are all wrong.

I was not a Rehberg fan. I got my knowledge about him from people like you and the media, newspapers and TV.

Man, my perseptions got shook to the core yesterday, when I attended the Ennis Listening meeting. He speaks well, better, much better than most. He doesn't interrupt. He is respectful. He is everything you aren't.

He can carry on an intellegent give and take conversation, and take pages of notes all the while. He had two staffers taking notes as well. He didn't miss a thing. He organized the meeting into categories. First was the general public. Many people spoke, and could speak as long as needed to make their point. The next meeting was for elected officials, i.e. County Commissioners and state legislators. The next meeting was for organizations who opposed the bill. the last meeting was for organizations who supported the bill. I spoke in that meeting. About 15 of us sat at the table. Myself, representing mountain bicycling, was wedged between Montana Trout Unlimited and The Wilderness Society. I was able to present my material clearly, Denny (about 3 feet away) listened intently, taking notes.

You curmugeons are just too far left to understand others. I vote both ways, keep my mind open, and was pleasantly surprised by an intellegent Denny Rehberg.

Haahhha

another mtn biker who is touting tester and rehrberg.

Tester is a liar

"I promise to protect ALL remaining roadless in MT."

Denny is an industry hack who subdivided his family's ranch

....thats the truth cant refute it.

Keep praising the politicians after they lie to you thats what they hope for; spinless, mindless sheeple. You Mtn. bikers are loosing more and more credibility when you praise tester,rehrberg and some even praise and work with the blue ribbon coalition.

I like mountain bikers. They wear such colorful costumes and do such amazing tricks with their bikes.