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</div><div><b>John Sinrud: Lunatic</b></div><div>December 4, 2007 7:11 amDon Pogreba1 Min Read</div><div>
</div><div>In yet another display of the manly, John Wayne lifestyle of Montana Republicans, John Sinrud is crying because the governor is picking on him, even though he’s not:</div><div>
</div><div><b>A state board has ordered Rep. John Sinrud, R-Bozeman, to quit practicing architecture until he obtains an architect’s license or he will face court action.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The Board of Architects unanimously issued a cease and desist order against Sinrud Oct. 15.</div><div>
</div><div>It vowed to seek a court injunction against him if it finds he continues to practice architecture without a license.</div><div>
</div><div>The board, part of the state Department of Labor and Industry, also said it might ask the county attorney to prosecute him for a misdemeanor.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sinrud, one of Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s harshest critics, charged that he is the victim of a political witch hunt that’s depriving him of his right to earn a living.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It was nothing but political, absolutely and completely political,” Sinrud said Monday. “It’s a political hit because I caused the governor some problems.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>Here’s a revolutionary idea, John. Follow the law, and quit blaming the Governor for your mistakes. The next time you get a traffic ticket, I assume that will be the Governor, too?</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wittich trial winds down</font></div><div><div class="byline" style="margin-bottom: 12px; vertical-align: middle; font-style: italic; margin-top: 0.5rem; padding-bottom: 0.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="by-author" style="display: inline;"> <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" style="font-weight: 700;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://montanafreepress.org/author/jadam984/" title="More from John S. Adams" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John S. Adams</a></span></span> <time class="entry-date updated dtstamp pubdate" datetime="2016-03-31T20:06:44-06:00" style="display: inline; margin-left: 0.5rem;">March 31, 2016</time></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">By John S. Adams</span>, <em>Editor-in-Chief</em></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HELENA — State Rep. Art Wittich, the man accused of accepting illegal in-kind contributions and services from conservative nonprofit groups during his 2010 Senate race, took the witness stand in his own defense Thursday in Lewis and Clark County District Court.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wittich is on trial in a civil lawsuit brought by Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl, who has accused the Bozeman Republican of illegally coordinating with groups funded by the anti-union National Right to Work Committee.</font></p><aside class="scaip scaip-1 " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thursday was day four of a scheduled five-day trial and it began with testimony from </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Motl, who fended off allegations by <b>Wittich’s attorney Quentin Rhoades</b> that he held a deep-seeded political bias against Wittich. Through questioning Rhoades attempted to paint Motl as an activist with a long history of working on liberal causes. Wittich, a conservative Republican, strongly opposed Motl’s confirmation in the 2015 Legislature.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Motl conceded that his only bias – which he called an “appropriate bias – was against the corrupting influence of “dark money” in Montana politics.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Dark money as it was used in 2010 is a serious threat to the integrity of the Montana election process,” Motl said.</font></p><aside class="scaip scaip-2 " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Motl referenced testimony from Wednesday, when former Republican Rep. Jon Esp, of Big Timber, told the jury that even after winning his 2010 election, he chose not to run for office again because of the “dirty campaign” waged against him by the Right to Work-backed groups.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If you have an undisclosed, unreported, secretive group of organizations working on behalf of<b style=""> [Esp’s opponent Joel Boniek]</b>…doing what they did to a decent man, and that takes that man to a point where he’s not willing to serve the people of Montana anymore, you have damaged our election process for that candidate,” Motl said. “In addition you have damaged our election process for the people of Montana.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rhoades also attempted to get Motl to admit that there was no “smoking gun” evidence that proved Wittich requested special treatment from the Right to Work-backed groups. Rhoades asked Motl to show him the document that served as the “smoking gun.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Motl responded there has never been a campaign practice case with as many smoking guns, and pointed to previous witness testimony, phone records, emails between Wittich and Right to Work staffers, to make that case the Wittich had engaged in illegal coordination.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">C.B. Pearson, a Missoula campaign consultant and a longtime friend and associate of Motl, testified that in his expert opinion, the value of the services Wittich allegedly received from the Right to Work organizations totaled at least $22,000.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chad Smith, a defense witness who said he runs a printing and direct mail company in Livingston, testified that in his opinion Wittich paid fair market value, if not slightly more for the services he admits he contracted from Direct Mail and Communications.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wittich’s lawyers says he paid around $7,000 for consulting, website, and database services, a sum Wittich said was, in highlight, too much for the products and services that were provided.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wittich took the stand twice during Thursday’s proceedings, once as a witness for the plaintiff, once as a witness for the defense.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first time around Wittich struggled to recall specific details in his responses to questions from the state’s attorney, Gene Jarussi.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wittich began many of his answers with phrases like “I don’t recall,” “I’m not sure,” and “I don’t remember”</b> in response to questions about documents, missing emails, receipts, training sessions he attended, and his relationship and conversations with Christian and Allison LeFer, the couple who ran the Right to Work-backed corporations in question.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Near the end of the day the defense called Wittich back to the stand where he told the jury personal details about his past, his family, how he got into politics, and other personal details aimed at warming jurors to the defendant.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Under questioning from his own attorney, Wittich’s memory was much clearer that earlier in the day.</b> Wittich responded with authority about how much he paid for direct mail pieces and website work, the problems he said he had with the LeFers’ company, and details about his “grassroots campaign.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Testimony will resume Friday with Wittich on the stand. Wittich is expected to be the last witness to testify in the case. Closing arguments are expected Friday afternoon. One attorney speaking on background said the jury should have the case for deliberation by 2 p.m.</font></p></aside></aside></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cowgirl july 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div id="mcePaste" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Embattled former Montana legislator John Sinrud’s Western Tradition Partnership has been targeting pro-conservation candidates in both parties for the last few years, and specializes in nasty (and potentially illegal) campaign tactics.   Sinrud, a former Belgrade legislator, has been previously <a href="http://helenair.com/news/article_db23235f-70a2-5d7c-be2a-1597f29909c7.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">identified in connection with the shadow group</a> in the Montana press. <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Correction:</span></span> I had earlier written that former Speaker of the House Scott Sales was someone behind this group. That was incorrect.  Sales was among those <a href="http://leftinthewest.com/showComment.do;jsessionid=BDF0AC7B2343ED6AAF3E57AF008DFBAA?commentId=21445" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed/backed </a>by the group.  Now, the shadow group is making headlines in other states for their tactics.  <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://coloradoindependent.com/57656/colorado-political-group-western-tradition-linked-to-nasty-montana-race" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">The Colorado Independent </a></em>has the story, including how the group was</font></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 20px 1.25rem; padding: 1.25rem 1.25rem 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 90, 140); border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">formed by Montana political activists but </span><b>registered to GOP operative Scott Shires in Aurora, Colo. </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">That group denies advocating for any particular candidate in any particular race, insisting its campaign surveys legally gauge for the voters where candidates stand on the issues.</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div id="mcePaste" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Shires has been fined and censured by Colorado officials in past elections</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, including the 2008 Garfield County commissioners’ races, which saw Democrats targeted by the oil and gas industry. </span><b>Shires’ Colorado League of Taxpayers was fined $7,150 for spending $2,400 on mailers in that race without filing proper electioneering reports with the Colorado Secretary of State.</b></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nearly two years later, Shires still hasn’t paid his fine. “At this point, collections hasn’t been able to get that money yet,” Secretary of State spokesman Rich Coolidge said.</span></div></blockquote></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6/08
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HELENA - When Denton <b>rancher Scott Seilstad challenged incumbent Republican state Rep. Ed Butcher in a primary</b> contest this June, he had to tangle with something other than Butcher: campaign mailers and money from a bevy of obscure political groups bent on defeating him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Seilstad, a pro-life Republican who signed a pledge against raising taxes, found himself accused of being soft on abortion, cozy with labor unions and supporting higher taxes.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I don't mind a good, clean campaign on the issues," Seilstad said. "But this kind of deception of the voters the last few days of the election is sleazy campaigning."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seilstad, who lost the House District 29 Republican primary to Butcher by 20 votes, wasn't the only legislative candidate targeted by last-minute, third-party campaign mailers during the June 3 primary.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The mailers showed up in at least a half-dozen Republican House primaries, often in the final days before the election, labeling the targeted candidate (or candidates) as "liberal" or "soft" on issues such as crime, abortion, taxes, gun ownership, natural resource development and labor unions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The 10 or so groups responsible for the mailers are based mostly in Bozeman and Virginia, and have names such as Mothers Against Child Predators or the National Gun Owners Alliance. A half-dozen of the groups were formed only a few weeks ago, just before the June 3 election, according to records at the state Political Practices Office</span>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the groups also gave cash donations to Republican primary opponents of the candidates targeted by the mailers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In most races where these groups were active, the candidate they assisted won the primary election<b>. Three Republican incumbents targeted by these groups lost primary battles on June 3: Reps. John Ward of Helena, Bruce Malcolm of Emigrant and Carol Lambert of Broadus.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ward, Malcolm and Lambert said a week ago they plan to run as write-in candidates in the general election, in part to protest what they said were "sleazy campaign tactics" of the groups that targeted them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether or how these groups coordinated their efforts is unclear. Officials from most of the groups did not return telephone messages, ignored e-mails or declined to say much about what they are doing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's not unusual for so-called "third party" or "outside" groups to get involved in campaigns here or elsewhere, using their own money to promote or oppose candidates, funding mailers, telephone calls or other efforts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2006, for example, the Montana Democratic Party sent out last-minute mailers that attacked a half-dozen Republican legislative candidates in key races.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What is unusual about most of this latest collection of groups, however, is their formation just before the election and their relative obscurity and secrecy, says state Political Practices Commissioner Dennis Unsworth.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They weren't always forthcoming on names of officers; phone calls (from my office) weren't returned," he said last week. "But we did see some of their handiwork in terms of these 'hit pieces' in the mail."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They also sometimes operate on the edge of Montana's campaign finance laws, which require disclosure of who's spending money to influence elections, Unsworth said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mailers from these groups generally took two forms:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>1) Harshly worded criticism of an incumbent's voting record,</b> on issues such as the death penalty, taxes and energy legislation. For example, one mailer accused Ward of "voting with criminal-coddling liberal activists" for voting in 2007 to bring to the House floor a bill abolishing the death penalty in Montana.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The same mailer featured pictures of serial killer <b>John Wayne Gacy</b> of Illinois and convicted killer Nathaniel Bar-Jonah of Great Falls, saying "John Ward believes monsters like this deserve to live."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2)  <b>Criticizing candidates who allegedly didn't respond to issue surveys sent by the groups.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seilstad and Neal Donaldson, a Republican candidate who lost a primary in House District 62 in Livingston, say they didn't even receive surveys that they were rapped for not answering.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donaldson said the National Alliance of Gun Owners sent mailers to people in HD62 the Friday before the election, saying he hadn't answered its survey and implying that he didn't support gun-owner rights.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I got quite a few candidate surveys and I responded to every one of them," he said. "I never got (their) survey. For someone to be implying that I'm a threat to their Second Amendment and hunting rights is just a lie."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A phone call to the gun-owner group in Burke, Va., went unanswered.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican House incumbents targeted by the mailers had been targeted for defeat by Rep. Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman. He said the incumbents were too liberal and recruited opponents to run against them in the Republican primaries.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Koopman says he had nothing to do with the groups that sent the mailers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At least two of the groups have ties to Rep. John <b>Sinrud</b>, R-Bozeman, an outspoken conservative and critic of Gov. Brian Schweitzer. He helped form Western Tradition Partnership, a group that sent out some of the survey-related mailers, and gave $2,000 to the Coalition for Energy and the Environment, which funded mailers attacking Ward and Malcolm.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sinrud, development director for Western Tradition Partnership,</b> said the group sent surveys to candidates in nearly two dozen contested primary races this year "with the goal to understand where the candidates stand on natural resource and private property rights issues."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He did not answer several questions, sent by e-mail, about criticisms of the tactics or details of his group's operations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>None of the groups that sent the survey letters reported their spending to the state Political Practices Office.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Unsworth said the groups apparently are relying on federal rules that say they don't have to report specific spending, as long as they don't openly advocate election or defeat of a candidate.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He said that question has never been addressed under Montana law, which requires reporting of any spending meant to influence an election.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Butcher, who defeated Seilstad</b> and was mentioned favorably in several of the survey mailers sent to HD29 voters, speculated that the groups simply sought to defend or promote legislators known to agree with their conservative views.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I didn't solicit their support; they just came in," he said. "I really don't know why they came in. Apparently they consider me one of the main leaders in the Legislature supporting property rights and lower taxes."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Butcher, a rancher from Winifred, also said the national groups may be recognizing that a few well-placed conservatives in the Montana Legislature can make a difference, including new lawmakers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"With term limits, you have a lot more (new) people that are suddenly running, and they realize if they win, they can be effective (right away)," he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seilstad, who's lost two close primary elections to Butcher, said the groups are interested only in someone supporting their "<b>extremist agenda,</b>" and appear willing to deceive voters about a candidate's views.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's something that will discourage people who want to run for office, who have integrity and who want to do something for Montana," he said. "Maybe that's what they're trying to do."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HELENA - A dozen groups, some newly formed, spent money and mailed campaign pieces to promote conservative candidates in selected Republican legislative primaries this spring. They included:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Alliance of Montana Taxpayers: Based in Bozeman,</b> the alliance gave money to eight Republican candidates in contested primaries and sent a letter to voters in House District 84, attacking incumbent Republican John Ward. Its $2,000 in<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> funds came from the National Right to Work Political Action Committee in Springfield, Va. Treasurer Hillary Allen listed no telephone number on forms filed with the state.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Coalition for Energy & the Environment: Based in Bozeman,</b> this group funded mailers attacking Ward and Rep. Bruce Malcolm, R-Bozeman. Its treasurer, Fawn Kirkpatrick of Bozeman, listed an incorrect telephone number and e-mail address on forms filed with the state. It reported spending about $4,000, including $3,500 to a communications firm in Colorado. Kirkpatrick and Rep. John Sinrud, R-Bozeman, provided its funding.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Conservative Victory Fund: </b>This group, based in Belgrade, gave money to nine Republican candidates and spent $3,500 on direct mail, but didn't identify where the mailers were sent. Its money came from the National Right to Work PAC and the National Pro-Life Alliance in Annandale, Va. Treasurer Bruce Hanson didn't return a telephone message.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Montana Citizens for Right to Work: </b>This group sent mailers in several races, identifying which candidates filled out the group's surveys on issues and criticizing those who didn't. Its president, Greg Hagenston of Glendive, says the group has been active in Montana for many years. Right-to-work groups favor laws that forbid closed union shops that make payment of union dues a condition of employment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Right to Work Political Action Committee: </b>This PAC gave money to several Republican candidates. Its $2,000 came from the national right-to-work group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Montana Committee to Protect the Unborn</b>: Based in Bozeman, this group gave money to several Republican candidates. Its $4,000 in funding came from the National Pro-Life Alliance. Treasurer Mike Sidders says the group supports candidates "who recognize the right to life for all humans from conception forward."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mothers Against Child Predators:</b> Based in Bozeman, this group financed mailers attacking Ward and Rep. Bruce Malcolm for voting in favor of bills to abolish the death penalty. It reported $2,000 in contributions, mostly from out of state. Treasurer Jennifer Paul hung up on a reporter who called to ask about the group and did not respond to an e-mail.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>National Gun Owners Alliance: </b>Based in Virginia, this group sent mailers in several races, saying some candidates didn't answer its survey on gun and hunting issues. Telephone calls to its listed number went unanswered.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>National League of Taxpayers: </b>This group also sent survey-related mailers. Telephone calls to its number in<b> Springfield, Va.,</b> were not answered.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>National Pro-Life Alliance:</b> Based in Virginia, this group funded two of the above groups </span>and sent out survey-related mailers in some contested Republican primaries, suggesting candidates were not supporting anti-abortion positions. It did not return a telephone message.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sportsmen's Rights PAC: </b>Based in Livingston, this group gave money to a handful of Republican candidates. Treasurer Tim Watson, listed as a rancher from Livingston, gave the group $1,000. He didn't respond to a telephone message or e-mail.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span class="entry-meta-date updated" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span></p><div class="entry-content clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Extremists-finding-fertile-ground-in-Northwest-US-1434664.php" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);">national AP article ran across the country last week,</a> highlighting the right-wing nut-jobs that are gravitating toward the Flathead Valley and particularly Kalispell.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">These include <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);">Chuck Baldwin</a>, </span><a href="http://www.mhrn.org/newsarchive/1096Weaver.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Randy Weaver</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and a long list of others who are on various watch-lists of human rights groups like </span><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Southern Poverty Law Center</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="http://www.mhrn.org/newsarchive/1096Weaver.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Montana Human Rights Network.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But there is a great irony to it all.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The business that suffers most from this trend is real estate. To have a community become known as a haven for lunatics is a sure way to cause real estate prices to suffer.  And the Flathead valley <a href="http://www.kaj18.com/news/flathead-real-estate-market-inching-back-up/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);">does not need a drag on real estate right now,</a> because the national real estate crash has hurt the Flathead, and hurt ancillary businesses there like wood products and construction and electricians and so on.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The irony? Realtors are partly responsible for the right-wing colonization effort in the Flathead.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For starters, the National Realtors Association had an enormous influence in creating the Montana Tea Party legislature, <a href="http://mtcowgirl.com/2010/10/31/a-giant-handicap-for-state-democrats/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);">having spent over $2 million on Montana this past election cycle to get ultra-right-wing Republicans</a> elected in the legislature by blanketing the airwaves with a series of campaign ads about impending taxes.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It brought new faces in the legislature like Derek Skees, who in turn started actively seeking the spotlight for himself and his crazy buddies and causes in the Flathead.  Skees, in fact, was just featured in TIME Magazine, which did <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/17/in-tea-party-montana-an-old-idea-finds-new-life/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);">a profile about him being the national leader of the nullification movement, headquartered out of the Flathead</a>.   And there have been other disturbing articles in the national press, like the recent Associated Press piece, about how right-wing crazies are getting elected in, and moving to, the Flathead valley.  Not a good way to keep real estate values high.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://mtcowgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/John-Sinrud_1.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-551" title="John Sinrud, Realtors Association " src="http://mtcowgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/John-Sinrud_1.jpg" alt="John Sinrud, Realtors Association" width="100" height="100" style="margin: 0.3125rem 1.25rem 1.25rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline; float: left;" /></a>But</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> it gets worse.  Right-wing Republican John Sinrud (pictured), the current head of the Northwest Montana Realtors (the major real estate group in the Flathead), is the man who assembled the Western Tradition Partnership, a group that <a href="http://mtcowgirl.com/2010/11/29/bought-but-by-whom-2/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 90, 140);">spent roughly $700,000 of secret, unreported funds on the 2010 legislative races </a>(this was in addition to the $2 million that the National Realtors brought in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">). Sinrud has also been active in county and local races up there as well, something that the NWMR group doesn’t seem to mind at all.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So be careful what you wish for. The Realtors came to the 2010 legislative elections loaded for bear. But they are now being chased by a giant, runaway elephant, and might be regretting having gone hunting at all.</p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>By DANIEL PERSON, Chronicle Staff Writer Oct 22,<b> 2010 </b></div><div>
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</div><div>A group with Bozeman ties used a “sham organization” to funnel thousands of dollars into legislative races across Montana, Montana’s political practices commissioner said in a blistering ruling released Thursday afternoon.</div><div>
</div><div>The group, <b>Western Tradition Partnership, is the same group that successfully sued Montana over its law banning corporate spending in Montana elections.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The “sham organization” was the Bozeman-based political action committee, the Coalition for Energy and the Environment.</div><div>
</div><div>In a sweeping investigation of the group, Commissioner Dennis Unsworth found that WTP solicited unlimited corporate contributions to support pro-mining, pro-logging and pro-development candidates in Montana. WTP told potential donors that it aimed to combat radical environmentalists and “beat them at their own game” and ensured that by giving to WTP, the corporations’ contributions would remain secret.</div><div>
</div><div>WTP avoided disclosing who gave it money by passing the dollars along to the <b>Coalition for Energy and the Environment,</b> which in<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> turn ran attack ads against 10 Democratic candidates in 2008</span>, Unswoth wrote.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even then, Unsworth wrote, CEE may not have been totally honest with how much money it received. It reported receiving large contributions from a few people associated with WTP, including former state Rep. John Sinrud, R-Bozeman, totalling $12,000 in 2008. However, an IRS tax form listing both WTP and CEE reported the groups received <b>$665,725</b> that year.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“It is likely CEE’s campaign-finance reports do not fully disclose the amount and true source of funds used to oppose candidates,” Unsworth wrote. “Reported contributions came in relatively large amounts, and only from those directly associated with the (political action) committees. This raises a money-laundering concern.”</div><div>
</div><div>Unsworth concluded that WTP was involved in electioneering and broke Montana laws requiring groups seeking to influence elections to disclose who gave them money.</div><div>
</div><div>WTP’s failure to “publicly disclose the true source and disposition of funds it used ... raises the specter of corruption of the electoral process and clearly justifies an action seeking civil penalty,” Unsworth wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>Beyond citing the immediate laws he believed WTP broke, Unsworth painted a picture of a cabal of conservative candidates and Bozeman and Livingston political operatives who orchestrated attacks on both Republicans and Democrats across the state in the 2008 election year.</div><div>
</div><div>Among his findings:</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WTP employee and Bozeman resident Jennifer Paul was named treasurer of the “Mothers Against Child Predators” PAC, </span>which sent out mailers calling Reps. Bruce Malcolm, R-Emigrant, and John Ward, R-Helena, “soft on crime” and associated them with serial killers. CEE also spent money against Malcolm and Ward in the primary election, which they both lost.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>A <b>Livingston man named Christian LeFer </b>enlisted a Montana State University student named Brian Witt to put his name down as CEE’s treasurer. According to Witt, LeFer told him he would not have to do any work. Indeed, Witt told an investigator with the office of political practices that he never handled any money for CEE and did not have a key to the post office box listed as the PAC’s address.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>LeFer and his wife operated Direct Mail and Communications. At least nine candidates paid the company for campaign printing during their 2008 races. Four of those candidates’ opponents that year were subject to attack ads from WTP and CEE. Two other candidates’ opponents were attacked by<b> Mothers Against Child Predators.</b> Those connections raised the concern that the candidates were colluding with political committees, a violation of law, Unsworth noted. However, he stopped short of making that charge.</div><div>
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</div><div>Connect with the Chronicle on Facebook for the latest news, links and more.</div><div>Amongst the most serious charges made in the document was that a mailing list of prospective WTP donors included foreign corporations, though the ruling did not list those corporations.</div><div>
</div><div>In an interview Tuesday, WTP executive director Donny Ferguson said his group did not tell people who to vote for but rather “educated” voters. He said that shielded WTP from election laws.</div><div>
</div><div>In his ruling, Unsworth disagreed.</div><div>
</div><div>Ferguson also called the charge of soliciting foreign contributions a complete lie.”</div><div>
</div><div>Ferguson did not return a phone call Thursday afternoon.</div><div>
</div><div>WTP recently won a court case that struck down a nearly 100-year-old ban on corporate spending in Montana elections. WTP argued, and a state district judge agreed, that the law violated corporations’ right to free speech.</div><div>
</div><div>Daniel Person can be reached at dperson@dailychronicle.com or 582-2665.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">$ mining, real estate kim?</font><div><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Marlenee, Sinrud form group to stop ‘radical</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>environmentalists'</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>MAY 03, 2008</b> 12:00 AM • BY CHARLES S. JOHNSON OF THE MISSOULIAN STATE BUREAU</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">HELENA -</font></div><div><b><font face="Times New Roman"> Former U. S. Rep. Ron Marlenee and state Rep. John Sinrud have formed an</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Times New Roman">election-year<font color="#ff0000"> issue advocacy group to promote the use of Montana's natural resources, protect</font></font></b></div><div><b><font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman">property rights and stop "radical environmentalists."</font></b></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">The two Bozeman Republicans have launched Western Tradition Partnership and are soliciting</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">money and memberships from industry and business executives.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">Although the group seeks to provide good-paying<b> mining, logging and other natural resource</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>jobs for blue-collar workers, it also has a tie to Montana's right-to-work movement. </b>Right-to</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">work laws ban the so-called "closed shop," which makes union membership a condition of</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">employment. Unions have successfully fought efforts to pass these laws in Montana for</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">decades.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">The new group is targeting local and state issues, not national ones.</font></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">"The fact is, right now, the anti-development/anti-growth crowd controls the governor's mansion,</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">has a razor-thin majority in the state Senate and is only one seat away from taking control of the</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">state House," they wrote in an April 21 letter. "Not only that, but over the past few elections, the</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">radical environmentalists have been steadily increasing their support on county and city</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">commissions and councils all over Montana as well."</font></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>That letter, sent to 5,000 business and industry executives</b>, said they should join the partnership</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">because "quite simply, you and I cannot afford to ignore what's going on here in Montana." The</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">letter added:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><b><font face="Times New Roman">"When it comes to frivolous environmental lawsuits, business taxes, licensing requirements,</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Times New Roman">industry and labor regulations, energy development and a host of other issues critical to</font></b></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Montana businesses,</b> decisions made at the state and local level can often be more important -</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">and more damaging - than those coming out of Washington, D.C."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">Marlenee, 72, was Montana's eastern district congressman from 1977 to 1993. When Montana</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">lost one of its two congressional seats, the conservative Marlenee lost an epic 1992 battle</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">against U.S. Rep. Pat Williams, the liberal Democrat who represented the western district.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">After leaving Congress, Marlenee has lobbied for <b>Safari Club International.</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sinrud, 40, a three-term legislator and current chairman of the House Appropriations</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Committee, chose not to seek re-election in 2008. He's been one of the Democratic Gov. Brian</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Schweitzer's toughest critics.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last fall, the state Board of Architecture ordered Sinrud, who owned an architectural design</b></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</b></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b> firm, to quit practicing architecture without a license</b>. Sinrud, who said he never held himself out as an architect, charged that he was the victim of a political witch hunt by the Schweitzer administration because of his criticisms of the governor. Schweitzer dismissed Sinrud's charge as "delusional."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Sinrud and Marlenee formed what the Internal Revenue Service calls as a 501(c)(4) organization. It can engage in issues advocacy, but not speak out for or against candidates.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">These groups typically raise an issue via television or radio ads and urge people to call their senators, representative or governor to urge them to support or oppose an issue or bill.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">As a 501(c)(4), Sinrud said, "The income coming in is not taxable. It doesn't have to be disclosed."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">The partnership plans to advocate on such issues as forest management, energy development, water issues and Montana's lack of coal and coal-bed methane development compared to Wyoming, he said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"It's getting back to our roots in the state of Montana this state was created," Sinrud said. "It was created by using the treasures we have to make this state prosperous."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Marlenee said the partnership will not be affiliated with any political party, but added:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Because we've got to move back to the basics in Montana, we've got to also move back to our conservative roots. I and others in the nation are disenfranchised. We can't allow extremists to run the country."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Marlenee said the group won't raise its money from political parties.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"Been there, done that," he said, predicting the partnership will raise money a new way: "Build it, and they will come."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">It seeks to help blue-collar workers get good-paying natural resource industry jobs, Sinrud said, because "not everyone's going to be a Ph.D. or be a doctor or lawyer."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"That's the concept behind it," he said. "We've really got to help these people out. If we help these people out, we can help our state."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">However, the partnership also has a link to Montana's<b> right-to-work movement.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">When asked in a telephone interview who else was helping with the Western Tradition Partnership, Sinrud mentioned Christian LeFer of Livingston.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asked if that was the same </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Christian LeFer</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of Livingston who is executive director of Montana Citizens for Right to Work, Sinrud said, "That's a totally separate group. He's not part of the group. I'm just working with him for advice."</span></font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Montana is surrounded by right-to-work states. With unions leading the opposition, repeated efforts to enact such a law here have failed, even when Republicans have controlled the governor's office and the Legislature.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">In a later interview, Sinrud said LeFer is just working as a consultant to the partnership, helping with graphics and Web design work.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Asked about the connection, LeFer said, "Yeah, I do a little graphic design work for my friends. I volunteer in my community. I do graphics for my church."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">LeFer emphasized his issue is right-to-work, and he vowed to pass it in Montana.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">On Jan. 16, Sinrud out sent a right-to-work mass mailing that included a letter of introduction on LeFer's behalf that asked recipients to join them in fighting "forced unionism."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Montana Democratic Party spokesman Kevin O'Brien isn't buying the partnership's denial of ties to the right-to-work movement.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"This is just another attempt by John Sinrud and Ron Marlenee and their out-of-state big-money backers to push an extreme agenda that is focused on taking rights away from Montana workers," O'Brien said. "This is a wedge issue. What they're trying to do is split environmentalist and labor."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Jim Jensen, executive director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, a leading environmental group, hadn't heard of the partnership and questioned its need.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"It certainly looks backward and not forward," Jensen said. "Montana's environmental laws have resulted in dramatic protection of private property and improved public health for our communities and our families. Montana currently has an environmentally sensitive governor and Legislature, and at the same time, the lowest unemployment it's had, the healthiest economy for many years and a healthy state budget.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"If Sinrud and Marlenee want to take us back to the copper collar and robber barons and the days in Butte where you couldn't see the sun because of smoke and air pollution, they're going to have a tough time convincing Montanans that those days were better than today."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Don Allen is executive director of the Western Environmental Trade Association, a generally pro-development group that includes both industries and some unions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Allen hadn't heard of the Western Tradition Partnership either.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"I'm not against there being other groups," Allen said. "If they want to start another group, that's fine. There's only so much money to go around."</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As progressive groups are getting ready to reform lobbying in D.C. I received a tip that a former Montana state legislator,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> John Sinrud (R-Belgrade), broke the law in late 2009 because he appeared as a lobbyist to lobby on behalf of the Northwest Montana Realtors.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">It appears that the tipster was correct.  <b>Mr. Sinrud left the State Legislature on December 31, 2008.</b>  By Montana law, a member of the legislature must wait exactly two years before becoming a lobbyist. This law was passed overwhelming by voters in 2006 as a ballot measure,<b> as part of a comprehensive ethics reform initiative by Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">You can see a picture of the smug-looking Sinrud at<a href="http://mtcowgirl.com/2010/08/17/sinrud-appears-to-have-committed-crime-lobbied-illegally/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">www.MTcowgirl.com</a>, where this diary is cross-posted.  </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">sept 07</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">kos</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">You want to see the real-world problems with right-wing extremism? Here's a good example from Big Sky Country. With Montana facing <a href="http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=7013339&nav=menu227_7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">major wildfires</a>, senior Montana Republican lawmaker John Sinrud - who heads the state House's appropriations committee - used a legislative hearing this week to attack Gov. Brian Schweitzer's (D) administration for - get ready for this - trying to prevent homes and buildings from being burnt down. At the hearing, he asks "Why not just let [buildings] burn?" Yes, what a refreshing dose of "compassionate" conservatism.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">You can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNPpHGwc24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">listen to the audio yourself</a> (which was also <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/1/113213/3561" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">posted by Kos this morning</a>). But there's an even bigger backstory to all this that makes this offensive statement worse. See the extended entry for what I mean....</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now, the backstory - which makes this whole thing even worse. The Helena Independent Record last week </span><a href="http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/08/as_montana_faces_fire_emergenc.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">reported</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that Schweitzer is being forced to call an emergency legislative session (at a cost of $65,000 per day) i</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n order to obtain more firefighting money because Republicans like Sinrud previously rejected his efforts to add that money to the budget - all while they advocated for <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/02/news/state/50-horse.txt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">massive tax cuts for out-of-state corporations</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The Montana GOP has responded by writing letters to the editor claiming Schweitzer is lying, though the </span><a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070901/OPINION01/709010304/1014/OPINION" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">Great Falls Tribune editorial board debunks that claim entirely</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> - showing that it is the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GOP that is lying</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Here's an excerpt:</span></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 14.4px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);">"Gov. Brian Schweitzer called Thursday to advocate on behalf of his appropriation request in the special legislative session he called for this Wednesday in Helena. He rightly disputed claims in a letter to the editor by Rep. Rick Ripley, R-Wolf Creek, that the governor had never requested $25 million for fires.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The amount <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">is</strong> in Schweitzer's original budget, and it <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">was</strong> in a bill that was killed, on a party-line vote, by the Appropriations Committee on which Ripley sits</span><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);">. The session is needed, Schweitzer said, because 'we've got bills to pay' -- totaling about $34 million -- and the Legislature won't otherwise meet until 2009. 'I can't say to contractors, 'We're out of money, sorry.'" (emphasis NOT added - it was in the original editorial).</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px;"><font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So, to review. The Montana Republican Party is now on record A) Attacking Montana state government for trying to stop buildings and homes from being burnt down B) Rejecting money to better fund firefighting while pushing massive tax cuts for out-of-state corporations and C) Lying about rejecting money to better fund firefighting.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">I guess the best thing you could say about Sinrud after this is that at least he didn't use profanity, like his colleague <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErsJK9R9pZQ" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Rep. Michael Lange (R) infamously did a few months ago</a>. That said, most people will probably find his desire to see Montana homes and buildings burn down even more offensive than Lange's temper tantrum.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">This has been your daily example of right-wing extremism - and its destructive consequences.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font face="Times New Roman">Cross-posted from <a href="http://www.workingassetsblog.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Working Assets</a></font></em></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>A state board has ordered Rep. John Sinrud, R-Bozeman, to quit practicing architecture until he obtains an architect's licens</b>e or he will face court action.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Board of Architects unanimously issued a cease and desist order against Sinrud Oct. 15.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">It vowed to seek a court injunction against him if it finds he continues to practice architecture without a license.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">The board, part of the state Department of Labor and Industry, also said it might ask the county attorney to prosecute him for a misdemeanor.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Sinrud, one of Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer's harshest critics, charged that he is the victim of a political witch hunt that's depriving him of his right to earn a living.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"It was nothing but political, absolutely and completely political," Sinrud said Monday. "It's a political hit because I caused the governor some problems."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Sinrud has disagreed with Schweitzer often.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Sinrud said he and his family have been living on savings since mid-October because he can't work, "but something's going to have to fall in the next two months."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"It could force me out of Montana and the Legislature, and that's exactly what the governor wants," Sinrud said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Schweitzer said he knew nothing about the matter until a reporter inquired and heatedly denied he was behind the action against Sinrud.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"It would be delusional," Schweitzer said. "I didn't even know what he did for a living."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Schweitzer said he's had no conversations with his staff or the Board of Architecture about Sinrud's case.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Two Labor Department employees with ties to Schweitzer immediately recused themselves from the case when it came in, said Art Gorov, deputy chief legal counsel.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">One was Mike Cooney, administrator of the agency's Business Standards Division, and a Democrat who is president of the Montana Senate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">The other was the department's chief legal counsel, Viv Hammill, who also handles sticky personnel legal issues for the administration.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Sinrud said he was told he couldn't testify before the Board of Architects so he proceeded to take a previously scheduled legislative trip to Taiwan.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>"They crown themselves king and declare themselves dictator,"</b> he said. "Why would I go watch if I can't say anything?"</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Gorov said people subject to investigations aren't entitled to testify at screening panels, but it turned out to be before a full board, where the person can speak if questioned.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"I talked to Sinrud a couple of weeks ago," Gorov said. "I told him I can't give him legal advice but there are several ways to undo this. I'm sure his lawyer will undo this."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Sinrud, who has a political science degree from Montana State University, was president of JJKG & Associates, an architectural design firm.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">For a profile in the Lee Newspapers in March, Sinrud said he studied architecture at MSU for five quarters but dropped out because of an illness.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">He later worked for an architectural firm in Los Angeles and picked up his computer automated design and drafting credentials at a community college there.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">After returning to Bozeman, Sinrud said he worked for some area architectural firms before opening his own business in 2002 to do architectural design and land planning.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">In an April 11 letter, Sinrud told the board, "I do not hold myself out as an 'architect' or a 'licensed architect' in any of my business activities.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"Neither am I engaged in the 'the practice of architecture,' thereby needing a license."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">The investigation found that Sinrud's company's Web site listed "numerous projects designed by the company," both residential and commercial, but no licensed architects on its staff and hadn't associated with any.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It's a crazy process," said Sinrud's attorney, Art Wittich</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of Bozeman.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "They really don't have to disclose what their evidence is. They make charges. There's no fair hearing and there's no due process, which amazed me. People who are licensed get more due process than people who are not."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">Wittich said Sinrud does design and drafting work, as do plenty of other people in Gallatin County.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">"Under what this board is saying, all of these people would be licensed," Wittich said. "Clearly they haven't been enforcing it. It's selective enforcement."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">
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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In 1997 he was asked to help start and manage an awarding architectural office in Bozeman, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Montana</span>and in 2001 he took that knowledge and success and ...</span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFSgAMAJ6BAgAEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/state-board-shuts-down-sinrud/article_e6b74cdd-5dd6-5cb6-a9a3-0db18ba9a2d0.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/state-board-shuts-down-sinrud/article_e6b74cdd-5dd6-5cb6-a9a3-0db18ba9a2d0.html&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjACegQIABAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); 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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://billingsgazette.com/.../montana/...sinrud/article_e6b74cdd-5dd6-5cb6-a9a3-0db1...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 1.54;">Dec 3, 2007 - </span>HELENA - A state board has ordered Rep. John <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Sinrud</span>, R-Bozeman, to quit practicing architecture until he obtains an architect's license, ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFSgAMAN6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/sinrud-in-center-of-budget-storm/article_e0b5ab86-9259-51ac-aa3e-62f01b675c0d.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/sinrud-in-center-of-budget-storm/article_e0b5ab86-9259-51ac-aa3e-62f01b675c0d.html&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjADegQIAhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; 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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://billingsgazette.com/.../montana/sinrud.../article_e0b5ab86-9259-51ac-aa3e-62f01...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 1.54;">Mar 18, 2007 - </span>So Kim <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Sinrud</span>, a newly minted <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Montana</span> State University accounting graduate who had taken a job as a contract auditor for the Department of ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFSgAMAR6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; 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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://helenair.com/...sinrud/article_a02ca7db-73af-50e4-8205-c64e4612f478.html</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 1.54;">Dec 4, 2007 - </span>A state board has ordered Rep. John <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Sinrud</span>, R-Bozeman, to quit practicing architecture until he obtains an architect's license or he will face ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFSgAMAV6BAgFEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://montanafreepress.org/tag/john-sinrud/&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">John Sinrud | Montana Free Press</a></h3>
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John <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Sinrud</span> ... civil lawsuit brought by <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Montana</span> Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl, ...</span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFSgAMAZ6BAgGEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sinrud&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAGegQIBhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">John Sinrud - Wikipedia</a></h3>
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cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">State lawmaker Sinrud told to stop practicing architecture | News ...</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/...sinrud.../article_3a0fe3fe-8fc0-5ec5-bbb5-3...</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 1.54;">Dec 3, 2007 - </span>John <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Sinrud</span>, R-Bozeman, said he didn't believe he was doing anything ... The <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Montana</span>Board of Architects issued a cease-and-desist order ...</span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAkQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFSgAMAh6BAgJEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/woman-sentenced-for-assault-with-ceramic-mug/article_40f51819-ab88-576a-9ce1-208bd4085088.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/woman-sentenced-for-assault-with-ceramic-mug/article_40f51819-ab88-576a-9ce1-208bd4085088.html&ved=2ahUKEwjVt_WH_s3jAhUFd6wKHQ7aC1QQFjAIegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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