Roy Brown is either being dishonest with Montana, or sadly doesn’t understand how the state budgeting process works after a decade in the legislature. While my vote is for the prior, Brown’s willingness to try to manipulate the truth isn’t going to win him a lot of favor in Montana.
If we all hadn’t been reading the words “belt tightening session” coming from budget director David Ewer day-in and day-out lately, Brown might have gotten away with his flier. When confronted with his dishonesty, Brown responded flippantly, “But it’s still an increase.”
In Brown’s mind, it’s apparently okay to campaign around the state with a governor who grew bureaucracy in his state by 20% on one day, and then criticize Gov. Schweitzer over a funding wish list his office doesn’t control the next. I don’t think Montanans are going to buy his line.
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1 Wulfgar // May 7, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Call me tired and cranky, but I think that Brown’s wailing will have an impact with those Montanan’s who hear soundbite and fear reality. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those folks, too many of them here in Bozeman. To them, “small government” isn’t a rational stance, it’s a mantra, a phantom, a holy grail. And I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that when (if) this story appears in the local fishwrap, there will be no disclaimers attached as in the Missoulian article.
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