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</div><div>SUMMARY: Representative Matt Rosendale has long been an opponent of public lands, regularly

voting against bills that would increase access to public lands while in the Montana legislature, and

even touting in 2014 that, “I have long been on the record as an advocate for the transfer of federal

public lands to the state.” Rosendale wanted to have federal transfers of lands in Northwest Montana so

that the state could log in protected areas, and supported legislation in 2011 that would have disallowed

Montana from acquiring any new public lands.

Rosendale also was very vocal in his opposition to certifying the results of the 2020 election, claiming

that there was widespread allegations of fraud and irregularities. Rosendale was one of the first

Republicans to call for Liz Cheney to resign as Chair of the House Republican Congress for her support

for impeaching Donald Trump for inciting insurrection, and opposed the January 6

th commission,

claiming it was a political diversion. He was also one of 21 House Republicans who voted against a bill

that would have awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Capitol police officers who responded to the

Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

US Rep. Matt Rosendale Publicly Opposed Certifying The Results Of The 2020

Election, Voted Against The January 6

th Commission, And Called For Wyoming

Rep. Liz Cheney’s Resignation After She Supported Trump’s Impeachment.</div><div>...</div><div>t Rosendale Regularly Supported Anti-Public Lands Bills While In The Montana

Legislature, Including A Bill To Disallow Montana From Acquiring Any New Public

Lands.

Rosendale In 2014: “I Have Long Been On The Record As An Advocate For The Transfer Of

Federal Public Lands To The State.” “In 2014, when asked to participate in a Q and A with the Billings

Gazette on the topic, [Rosendale] stated, ‘I have long been on the record as an advocate for the transfer of

federal public lands to the state.’” [Outsideonline.com, 07/16/19]

● Rosendale Voted For A Public Lands Management Study Which Was Considered “A

Backdoor Route To Starting Down The Road Of The Transfer Or Sell-off Of Public

Land.” “[Rosendale] voted for SJ 15 in 2013 to study public land management. The study

was a backdoor route to starting down the road of the transfer or sell-off of public land.

Rosendale voted again in 2015 for HB 496, creating a new legislative task force to study the

same issue even after overwhelming public outcry kept any reference of sell-off or transfer

out of the final report for SJ 15.” [Mtvoters.org, Accessed 12/13/21]

Rosendale Wanted To Transfer Land From The BLM To Montana To Allow For More Logging In

The State. </div><div>
</div><div>“A top priority is to transfer U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands to the

state. Rosendale called that a critical step that would encourage more logging in the northwestern and

southwestern parts of Montana.” [Billings Gazette, 04/22/14]

Matt Rosendale Has Worked To Prevent New Public Lands Protections In Montana

In 2011, While Serving In Montana’s Legislature, Rosendale Voted For A Bill That Would Have

Disallowed Montana From Acquiring Any New Public Lands. In 2011, Rosendale voted for SB 303,

which would have “disallowed the state from purchasing new land for parks, wildlife habitat (including

the Habitat Montana program), and even our university systems. a bill that would have disallowed

Montana from acquiring any new public lands.” [Mtaudubon.org, Accessed 12/13/21]

Rosendale “Torpedoed” A Conservation Easement Proposal In Montana. “Members of our group,

Public Land/Water Access Association, feel that State Land Board member Matt Rosendale torpedoed the

Keogh Conservation Easement Proposal at the September Land Board meeting. Three generations of the

Keogh Ranch family, 10 miles north of Whitehall, have always allowed recreational use of their property

and worked around the large numbers of elk, deer and antelope on their extensive ranch... If the Keogh

Conservation Easement had been accepted by the Land Board, it would have protected key elk, deer and

antelope habitat, as well as water rights and existing agricultural uses forever. Now, generations of

recreationists will be the biggest losers.” [Billings Gazette, 10/26/17]

Rosendale Has Sides With The Wilks Brothers, Texas Billionaire Frackers Who

Are Buying Up Land In Montana, To Close Off Access To Public Lands.

Rosendale Even Leased His Land To The Wilks Brothers</div><div>
</div><div>...</div><div>League Of Conservation Voters Put Rosendale On Its “Dirty Dozen” List Of 2018 For His

Continued Opposition To Public Lands, And His Close Ties To Texas Developers. “Montana Senate

candidate Matt Rosendale poses such an enormous risk to Montana’s public lands that LCV Victory Fund

put him on the Dirty Dozen — the list that targets some of the most anti-environment candidates...

Rosendale is for major rollbacks to public lands protections and has called for land transfers that would

make it easier for public lands to be sold off. This traces back to Rosendale’s developer roots. He has

connections to the Wilks brothers — Texas billionaires notorious for buying up property in Montana and

blocking access to public lands. Rosendale’s company has received thousands in royalties from the Wilks

brothers, who lease two oil rigs on his property. </div><div>
</div><div>Rosendale also supported legislation the Wilkses pushed

that was criticized as a move toward the privatization of elk hunting. The Wilkses have repeatedly tried to

block access to public land including Durfee Hills, a popular spot for elk hunting. Rosendale has a history

of developing lands, not protecting them for Montanans to enjoy for generations to come.” [LCV.org,

Accessed 12/10/21]

Former Head Of Montana Conservation Voters: “From Supporting Efforts To Sell-Off Our Public

Lands To Rolling Back Our Clean Energy Economy, [Matt] Rosendale Has Consistently Put

Corporate Interests Ahead Of Everyday Montanans.” “Commissioner Rosendale has consistently

voted against Montana’s outdoor heritage, clean air and water,” said Juanita Vero of Greenough, chair of

Montana Conservation Voters. “From supporting efforts to sell-off our public lands to rolling back our

clean energy economy, Commissioner Rosendale has consistently put corporate interests ahead of

everyday Montanans. Montana’s outdoor industry generates $7.1 billion in spending and creates 71,000

direct jobs; Commissioner Rosendale’s voting record would jeopardize this critical part of our economy.”

[Mtvoters.org, Accessed 12/13/21end </div><div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Despite FEC Complaint, the NRA Is Still Using a Mystery Firm to Back Senate Candidates</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">The gun group's first big ad buy of the 2018 cycle was made through a company that, according to an election watchdog, exists only to circumvent campaign finance laws.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">By Mike Spies Sep 10, 2018</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">NRA Youtube</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">The Trace</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div>The National Rifle Association made its first major foray into the 2018 election cycle last week, unleashing ads on behalf of Republican challengers to Senators Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. And in both cases, the gun group continued to pay a mysterious vendor that, according to one election watchdog, appears to be a shell company set up to circumvent election laws limiting how much the NRA can spend on candidates.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">That firm, according to the NRA’s latest filings with the Federal Election Commission, is Starboard Strategic Inc. As The Trace and Politico Magazine reported in July, Starboard Strategic, which is the NRA’s top election contractor — to the tune of more than $60 million from the gun group since 2014 — appears to be little more than the alter ego of an established firm called OnMessage, Inc. The two entities share the same office addresses and partners, one of whom registered Starboard’s opaque, skeletal website (after our story was published, the domain registration was privatized).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">OnMessage is a prominent consulting firm that works directly with GOP campaigns. According to an FEC complaint that the Campaign Legal Center filed shortly after our investigation, Starboard Strategic and OnMessage are “functionally indistinguishable.” The NRA is free to independently spend as much as it wants on political candidates, so long as the group isn’t coordinating its messaging and strategy with the candidates’ campaigns. Any spending that is coordinated, however, is subject to caps and disclosure requirements. By paying Starboard for ads in support of candidates while OnMessage was working directly with the same candidates’ official campaigns, the complaint says, the NRA “made excessive and unreported contributions…in violation of…reporting requirements and contribution limits.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">In 2014, the NRA paid Starboard millions of dollars for ads in support of three Republican Senate candidates: Tom Cotton in Arkansas; Cory Gardner in Colorado, and Thom Tillis in North Carolina. Simultaneously, those campaigns contracted with OnMessage. All three candidates defeated Democratic incumbents. In 2016, a similar arrangement played out again in Wisconsin: Republican Ron Johnson, who beat back a challenge from Russ Feingold, employed OnMessage. Later in the campaign cycle, the NRA placed anti-Feingold ads through Starboard.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Federal law allows outside groups and campaigns to use common vendors. But the firm working for either client must ensure that employees do not share election-related information. Usually, a firm seeks to prevent coordination by requiring its staffers to read and sign a strict firewall policy, which functions both as an agreement to comply with the law and an acknowledgement that there are penalties for failing to do so. Despite repeated requests, OnMessage has never produced a copy or provided any details of its policy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">The ad the NRA ran against Tester raises fresh questions about potentially illegal coordination. The gun group paid Starboard almost $400,000 for costs relating to the spot. Meanwhile, the campaign of Tester’s opponent, Matt Rosendale, has already paid OnMessage more than $400,000 this cycle.....</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">=</div></div>=121 guk...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures">n 2018, Club for Growth spent nearly $3m attacking the Democratic senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri, a race that was ultimately won by Hawley, the 41-year-old Yale law graduate with presidential ambitions who has amplified Donald Trump’s baseless lies about election fraud.<p class="css-38z03z" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; 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background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a race where land access issues may be pivotal, Montana's largest landowners are spending big to unseat Democrat Jon Tester.
Private interests against public land: This divide, a bedrock political issue of the American West, is on full display in the Republican effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.).The two largest private landowners in "Big Sky Country" are backing the campaign of Republican Matt Rosendale, a landowner and developer whose record shows close ties to, and consistent support for, business and industry.On the other side, Tester's top donor is the League of Conservation Voters. Re-electing the two-term incumbent has emerged as LCV's primary project these midterms; he is the group's top recipient by more than $100,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.Montana's Stream Access Law is one of the most rigorous in the nation. All streams and rivers can be accessed by the public, regardless of who owns the streambed or whether the flow is navigable.Mark Squillace, professor of natural resources law at the University of Colorado Law School, said this alignment is not surprising but is consequential in Montana, a conservative state that still puts a premium on public land access.Tester has proved a firm defender of access. He co-chairs the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus and is backed by groups such as the National Wildlife Federation."If you think about hunting or fishing, what they resent most is the notion that someone is going to close off public land or streams, and the people who are most likely to do that are developers," Squillace said.According to recently released campaign finance reports covering May 17 to June 30, these are exactly the kind of people filling in Rosendale's coffers.<h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep it in the family</h3><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Galt family is one of Montana's top landowners. All total they own nearly 250,000 acres in the state. And they are backing the Republican.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Errol Galt, rancher and former state fish, wildlife and parks commissioner, and his wife, Sharrie, each contributed $2,700 to Rosendale's general election campaign. Bill Galt, Errol's brother, who helps manage the family's enormous Martinsdale Ranch, maxed out his donations for both the primary and the general, giving $5,400. Wylie Galt (R), a state legislator, gave Rosendale $2,700 in the primary.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The family descends from ranchers Jack Galt and Louise Rankin. Rankin inherited vast tracts of land from her first husband, Wellington Rankin, largest landowner in the state for decades. His turf supported huge cattle operations, oil production and mining. His sister, Jeannette Rankin (R), was the first woman elected to Congress.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While they do not appear in campaign donations, Rosendale also has ties to the largest private landowners in the state, one step above the Galts.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fossil fuel billionaire brothers Farris and Dan Wilks own nearly 359,000 acres in Montana. Originally from Texas, they founded a hydraulic fracturing company, Frac Tech, which they sold in 2011 for $3.5 billion. Their main holding is the famous N Bar Ranch in eastern Montana.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation documents, Interstate Exploration LLC — which is owned by Dan Wilks — has leased an oil well property owned by Rosendale's company, MBA Consultants, since 2013.Rosendale earns between $100,001 and $1 million in "rent/royalties" from MBA Consultants, according to personal financial disclosures submitted to the Senate in June. The asset is listed as a farm with a Glendive, Mont., address.For years, the Wilks brothers have battled with outdoor recreation and conservation interests over public land access. Their N Bar Ranch encompasses a 2,700-acre Bureau of Land Management parcel known as Durfee Hills, and the brothers allow only limited public access to hunters, according to <a href="https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/controversial-central-montana-land-exchange-still-dead-despite-reports-to/article_e411fb54-cbff-5ee2-91bb-e0e1c6d986e3.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">reporting</a> by the Billings Gazette.In 2016, the brothers illegally put up 9 miles of fence around Durfee Hills and had to pay restitution to BLM for encroaching on public land.The area boasts some of the best elk hunting in the state. For years, the brothers have tried to push through a land swap with BLM that would give them Durfee Hills, a move that hunters and conservation groups bitterly oppose, claiming the land offered in return did not match the value of the prime hunting ground.In September 2017, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with the Wilkses and one of their top lobbyists to discuss the swap, The Guardian first <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/16/ryan-zinke-look-into-montana-land-proposal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">reported</a>.The links between Rosendale and the Wilks family are the subject of a $990,000 television and digital ad campaign by LCV.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In an emailed response to questions, the Rosendale campaign described LCV as a "radical environmental group" that supports "President Obama's job-killing Clean Power Plan" and the Waters of the United States rule, while opposing the Keystone XL pipeline and this year's farm bill.
Rosendale's campaign website states in all capital letters: "NO FEDERAL TRANSFER OF OUR PUBLIC LANDS."The campaign slammed Tester, who is a vocal advocate of campaign finance reform, for taking millions from the group over the years and benefiting from the group's outside expenditures.But during a 2014 House bid, Rosendale campaigned on just that: transferring Forest Service and BLM land to the state while backing similar legislation as a state legislator. He touted the economic development opportunities of the plan."If we were able to manage and control those lands, we would be able to generate much more economic-development opportunities," Rosendale <a href="https://billingsgazette.com/rosendale-calls-for-transferring-federal-lands-to-state/article_4ae4e88a-0d20-55db-95ec-72fb88fd1d20.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">told</a> the Gazette in 2014."We would be able to harvest a lot of that timber, we'd be able to acquire the minerals that are located in those areas and once again utilize the economic opportunities that are located in there," he said.Rosendale responded to critics of his public lands record in an op-ed in the Billings Gazettepublished in April. In it, he acknowledged Montanan's dedication to keeping open access to public lands."I've listened to the people of Montana and they mean business about protecting our public lands, opposing a federal lands transfer, and responsibly expanding access and recreational opportunities — and I completely agree," he wrote.He also stressed more local and state management of these lands to prevent wildfires.Push and pull between private landowners and federally managed lands goes back more than a century, according to John Leshy, Interior's top lawyer during the Clinton administration."This is a dynamic that goes back a very long way, back to the period in the 19th century when most of them were set aside," said Leshy, who is writing a book on the political history of public lands (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060076457/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Greenwire</a>, March 15). "It's a current that runs through a lot of the West."The Montana race, he said, will be an interesting test case. Trump won the state by 20 percentage points in 2016, but a June poll by the Center for Western Priories shows 49 percent of voters disapproving of the administration in public lands and parks issues, compared with 30 percent in approval. The online survey sampled 500 Montanans with a 2-point margin of error."It is a kind of bellwether since the candidates have these different histories," Leshy said. "It brings a lot of things into focus."<h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rosendale's old debts</h3><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The second-quarter Federal Election Commission filings show Rosendale's campaign continuing a fundraising practice that has allowed contributors to surpass the maximum contribution allowed by federal law.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rosendale loaned his campaign money during an unsuccessful House bid in 2014, and the race ended with an outstanding $237,000 loan.The Daily Beast first <a href="http://elink.thedailybeast.com/view/5a5e853824c17c4af7b7bb0988qh8.0/2e3289e0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">reported</a> that Rosendale's 2018 campaign was asking donors who had already maxed out to contribute to paying back the 2014 debt.Those donations from nine contributors totaled $32,831, which went to the 2014 campaign committee. The committee paid Rosendale's personal bank account to pay back the 2014 loan. The next day, Rosendale loaned the exact same amount to his 2018 Senate campaign, campaign finance documents show.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These donors included several linked to the Koch brothers network of conservative advocacy groups: Karen Wright, founder of Ariel Corp., which makes natural gas extraction equipment, and husband Tom Rastin, as well as Wayne Laufer, founder and CEO of oil and gas company Bois d'Arc Energy, and his wife, Gayle.Experts say this does not violate campaign finance law, as long as the donors did not know the money would be routed to the Senate campaign."If the donors were told they were helping pay down Rosendale's 2014 loan to his campaign, there is little stopping Rosendale from turning around and putting his repaid 2014 loan back into his 2018 campaign," Brendan Fischer of the Campaign Legal Center wrote in an email."But it has the effect of allowing a handful of wealthy donors to give up to $8,000 to Rosendale's campaign when the legal limit is $5,400," Fischer said.The pattern continues in the most recent documents. More than a dozen donors who have already reached the contribution limit gave nearly $35,000 to the 2014 campaign account for the listed purpose of paying off the remaining debt. They include former Occidental Petroleum Corp. CEO Stephen Chazen.The filings for May and June do not show any further loans from the candidate to the campaign. Rosendale's campaign did not respond to a question about the donations.The donations to Rosendale's 2014 campaign "do not violate the letter of the law, but common sense tells us this is an end around the spirit of the law," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics."At the end of the day, it's legal," she said. "And if voters don't like it, they can do something about it."=</section></article><article class="story spotlight" id="story_1060089517" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h2 class="slug" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/campaign_2018/stories/1060089517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">CAMPAIGN 2018</a></h2><h1 class="headline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Western voters want access, conservation — poll</h1><section class="byline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2018-07-18 13:25:16 -0400" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Greenwire: Wednesday, July 18, 2018</time></section><section class="excerpt" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2018 office seekers, take note: Western voters in five states favor political candidates who prioritize public land access and conservation, according to a new poll from a nonprofit group.</section></article> leanings: Republican/ConservativeSpending target: UndisclosedAmericas PAC has traditionally specialized in making independent expenditures attempting to convince black and Hispanic voters to support Republican candidates, but the PAC says it is widening its net.Americas PAC <a href="http://americaspac527.com/about-us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">declares on its website</a>: “With large percentages of minority voters supporting marriage, lower taxes, school choice and pro-life positions but voting Democratic, our goal is to ask for their vote without compromising our conservative views.”The PAC spends mostly on targeted radio ads and social media. In 2016 it sponsored <a href="https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/super-pac-known-trying-turn-hispanics-gop-goes-after-cortez-masto-brutal-radio-spot" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">a Spanish-language radio ad</a> asking (in translation): “Does [Democratic Senate candidate] Catherine Cortez Masto [of Nevada] care that 3 out of 5 babies aborted in America are black and Hispanic?… I have a question for Catherine Cortez Masto: Why should I vote for you if you don’t even care about our babies?”And in 2014, it ran a radio <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/controversial-super-pac-black-latino-voters-scott-walker-wisconsin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">ad on Wisconsin stations with large black audiences</a> urging listeners to turn out to support Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s reelection bid. A female narrator said, “Democrats ask for our votes every election. But why do we vote for a party that wants our votes but not our babies?”In the 2016 election cycle, the PAC reported r<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00559906/?tab=summary&cycle=2016" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">aising and spending just under $2 million</a>, of which <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?two_year_transaction_period=2016&cycle=2016&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00559906&min_date=01%2F01%2F2015&max_date=12%2F31%2F2016&line_number=F3X-11AI" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">$1.9 million was donated by Republican donor Richard Uihlein</a>, CEO of <a href="https://www.uline.com/Corporate/About_History" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">Uline Corp</a>., a manufacturer and distributor of shipping, packaging and industrial supplies.In 2018, the PAC and Uihlein are thinking bigger. As of March 31, 2018, the PAC had already reported <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00559906/?tab=summary&cycle=2018#total-raised" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">raising more than $5 million</a>, all of it from Uihlein (either directly or transferred from another PAC, Solutions for Wisconsin, <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?two_year_transaction_period=2018&cycle=2018&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00636084&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=05%2F31%2F2018&line_number=F3X-11AI" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">exclusively financed by Uihlein</a>.)The PAC’s first 2018 target is Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. It reported spending more than $700,000 directly opposing her reelection, and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00559906" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">$2.6 million supporting GOP hopeful Kevin Nicholson</a> in the Aug. 14 Republican primary to choose her general election opponent.Another early target is Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The PAC reported spending more than $500,000, as of June 5, to oppose Manchin’s reelection.It also reported spending nearly $695,000 supporting Republican Matt Rosendale as the GOP nominee to run against Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana. Rosendale, the state auditor, won the June 5 GOP Senate primary.Americas PAC was <a href="https://forms.irs.gov/app/pod/basicSearch/search?eventId_displayForm=true&formId=7474&formtype=e8871&execution=e1s4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">established in 2003</a> by Kansas Republican activist Richard Nadler as a “dark money” political committee organized under Section 527 of the IRS code. As such, it was allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts for independent expenditures from any U.S. source without disclosing the identity of its givers.After <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/richard-nadler-was-pavlov-s-dog-violinist-became-conservative-activist/article_81d35b3b-03f3-5922-80aa-2c99153623a4.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">Nadler’s death in 2009</a>, control passed to its longtime political consultant, Tom Donelson, who runs it from a <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/2560+Plymouth+St,+Marion,+IA+52302/@42.0479557,-91.6147925,3a,75y,265.42h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sk2jJw-qX6-mtAktCW2rkQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x87e4f1eb24053e85:0x744ecef20aa705ec!8m2!3d42.0479555!4d-91.6150338" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">two-story house</a> in Marion, Iowa. He registered it with the Federal Election Commission as a <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/544/14031200544/14031200544.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">super PAC in 2014</a>, and has since filed regular disclosures of its donations and expenditures.When we contacted Donelson, he declined to say how much he hoped to raise and spend in 2018. 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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;"> › 2018-dirty-dozen › 2018-senate-dirty-dozen › rosendale</a></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;">Montana Senate candidate Matt Rosendale poses such an enormous risk to Montana's public lands that LCV Victory Fund put him on the Dirty Dozen — the list that targets some of the most anti-environment candidates. Rosendale is a threat to Montana's outdoor way of life — including public lands, clean air, and clean water.</div></div></div><div id="r1-2" data-testid="result" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.lcv.org" data-hostname="www.lcv.org" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 8px 1.2em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: relative; overflow-wrap: break-word; border-radius: var(--default-border-radius);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-direction: column; 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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; top: 2px;"><span class="resulturldomain" 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; display: inline;">https://www.lcv.org<span class="resulturlfull" 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; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;"> › article › lcv-victory-fund-announces-990k-ad-campaign-exposing-matt-rosendales-ties-texas-billionaires-whove-blocked-access-public-lands</a></div></div><div class="resultsnippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;">LCV Victory Fund Announces $990K Ad Campaign Exposing Matt Rosendale's Ties to Texas Billionaires Who've Blocked Access to Public Lands Alyssa Roberts, 202-454-4573, aroberts@lcv.org Wilks brothers -- largest private landowners in Montana -- have paid Rosendale's company thousands in royalties as they've shut off access to public lands</div></div></div><div id="r1-3" data-testid="result" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d result--url-above-snippet" data-domain="www.lcv.org" data-hostname="www.lcv.org" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 8px 1.2em 0px; 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letter-spacing: -0.01px; order: 1;"><a data-testid="result-title-a" class="resulta js-result-title-link" rel="noopener" href="https://www.lcv.org/article/new-radio-ad-elks-point-view-montanas-large-congressional-race/" style="margin: 0px 0px -0.05em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.22; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">New Radio Ad: An Elk's Point of View on Montana's At-Large ...</a></h2><div class="resultextras js-result-extras" style="margin: 1px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; position: relative; min-height: 1.57em; top: 0px; order: 0; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"><div class="resultextrasurl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; visibility: visible;"> › article › new-radio-ad-elks-point-view-montanas-large-congressional-race</a></div></div><div class="result__snippet js-result-snippet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline; order: 2;">Missoula, Montana — LCV Victory Fund and House Majority PAC launched a new $260,000 radio ad today in opposition to Matt Rosendale's campaign to represent Montana's at-large congressional district. The ad, narrated in part from the perspective of an elk, draws attention to Matt Rosendale's anti-public lands record as a real estate developer.</div></div></div></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li></li></ul><div>===</div></div></footer></div></div>