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Georgiann Baldino"A <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> representing thousands of federal wildland firefighters excoriated Montana <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> Senate hopeful Tim <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a> after he accused firefighters of dragging their feet to put out infernos and 'milking' disasters for overtime pay." Huff Post <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-union-blasts-montana-gop-170736950.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-union-blasts-montana-gop-170736950.html</a>

Georgiann BaldinoFact checking Montana <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Senate</a> candidate <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a> during a candidate forum. "What they say in back rooms, when they don’t think the recorder is going or the camera is running, is usually what they think,” [ Sen. Jon Tester] said. “And Tim said we need to turn our lands over to either his rich buddies or county government. That’s not protecting public lands." Huff Post <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/montana-gop-senate-hopeful-scrambles-193718662.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/montana-gop-senate-hopeful-scrambles-193718662.html</a>

Georgiann Baldino"The campaign of Montana <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> Senate candidate Tim <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a> appears to have doctored a recent TV advertisement to remove a logo of the Property and Environment Research Center from the shirt he was wearing. PERC is a Montana-based think tank with a history of advocating for the privatization of federal public lands, which has become a central issue in the race." Huff Post <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/sure-looks-gop-senate-hopeful-212341928.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/sure-looks-gop-senate-hopeful-212341928.html</a>

Chuck DarwinMontana GOP Senate candidate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tim</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a> touts his business. -- It’s losing millions. As he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Montana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Montana</a> Republican <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tim</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a> recounts how he started an aerial firefighting business in his barn and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires. “That’s a success story,” he said in a June television interview.  Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months tell💥 a different story 💥about Bridger Aerospace, known for its “Super Scooper” planes that can remove up to 1,400 gallons at a time from a body of water to dump on a nearby wildfire.  Bridger is facing a cash crunch so dire that 🔸there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue,” 🔸according to public filings that show 👉 the company lost $77.4 million last year and $20.1 million in the first three months of 2024. 🔷Several directors have left, including one who flagged concerns about internal auditing, as an unusually slow wildfire season in 2023 put the company at risk of defaulting on its debt.  ♦️And then last month, Sheehy said he couldn’t devote enough time to running the company and resigned — a move that Bridger, which had promoted his key role in “every facet” of the business, previously said would happen if he was elected to the Senate.<a href="https://jontester.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jontester.com/</a>⭐️“Montana will always come first for me – and I will take on anyone, from any party, to defend our state,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tester</a> said in a statement. “I’m honored to have the support of Montana Republicans who have stood with me to fight for our veterans, protect our freedoms, and keep the government out of our personal lives.”<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/tester-campaign-launches-republicans-tester-130118299.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/tester-campaign-launches-republicans-tester-130118299.html</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/tim-sheehy-firefighting-company-losses-wildfires/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/tim-sheehy-firefighting-company-losses-wildfires/</a>

Chuck DarwinSen. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tester</a> (D-Mont.) is locked in a tight race in Montana as former President Trump boasts a wide lead over Vice President Harris in the state, polling shows. A new Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey puts Trump-backed Republican <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tim</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a> with a 2-point lead over Tester, 48 percent to 46 percent. Another 5 percent were undecided.  ♦️Tester is one of the most vulnerable incumbents this cycle, ♦️a rare Democrat holding office in a state Biden lost back in 2020, and 💥his race could determine which party ends up controlling the upper chamber.The poll also marks a shift from March, when the same pollster found Tester up by 2 points over his Republican challenger. Because the gap falls 🔸within the survey’s 3-point margin of error, 🔸the race remains a potential tie between the two Senate race rivals. This week, Tester launched a 🌟“Republicans for Tester” 🌟group to rally support from across the aisle as he braces for a competitive November contest. At the top of the ticket, Trump is a whopping 15 percentage points ahead of Harris, but the vice president’s 40 percent support is a notable 5-point improvement from the 35 percent President Biden garnered back in March.<a href="https://jontester.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jontester.com</a><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4816495-tester-locked-in-tight-race-in-montana-trump-holds-wide-lead-over-harris-poll/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4816495-tester-locked-in-tight-race-in-montana-trump-holds-wide-lead-over-harris-poll/</a>

Chuck DarwinMontana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tim</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sheehy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sheehy</a>, a former Navy SEAL who is the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a> candidate in a U.S. Senate race in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Montana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Montana</a> that could determine control of the chamber, has cited a gunshot wound that he said left a bullet in his right arm as evidence of his toughness.  “I got thick skin — though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afghanistan,” Sheehy said in a video of a December campaign event posted on social media, pointing to his right forearm.  It was one of several <a href="https://c.im/tags/inconsistent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inconsistent</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accounts</a> Sheehy has shared about being shot while deployed. And in October 2015, more than a year after he left active duty, he told a different story.  After a family visit to Montana’s Glacier National Park, he told a National Park Service ranger that he accidentally <a href="https://c.im/tags/shot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shot</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/himself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#himself</a> in the right arm that day when his Colt .45 revolver fell and discharged while he was loading his vehicle in the park.The self-inflicted gunshot left a bullet lodged in Sheehy’s right forearm, according to the written description accompanying the federal citation that the ranger, a federal law enforcement officer, gave Sheehy for illegally discharging his weapon in a national park. The citation said the description was based on Sheehy’s telling of events. Asked this week about the citation, which has not been previously reported, Sheehy told The Washington Post that the statement he gave the ranger was a lie<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/tim-sheehy-montana-senate-gunshot-wound-national-park/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/tim-sheehy-montana-senate-gunshot-wound-national-park/</a>

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