Marlenee, R
<div class="entry-header clearfix" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><div class="title-meta-wrapper-no-image" style="margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="entry-title clearfix" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.125em; padding: 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></h3><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ati origins</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">beat by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Williams(Montana) pro wilderness</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://books.google.com/books?id=iPP_R6AW3GAC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=marlenee+montana+gop&source=bl&ots=rR4lpMrda9&sig=IYM7DRmNjUE6kmQWD2jhkXdvYDY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEgI2-pbDOAhWH5IMKHbHhCqw4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=marlenee%20montana%20gop&f=false</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><h1 class="gb-volume-title" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation</font></h1><span class="addmd" style="margin-left: 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Judith A. Layzer</font></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see <b>War on the Greens</b> ppl of the west yellowstone?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://books.google.com/books?id=giTwwvtIkdEC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=marlenee+montana+gop&source=bl&ots=EmIb5xZBtH&sig=JvNt3SR6RsMYOFGxapGtoszm-Os&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNuMv7obDOAhVo54MKHc5ODeMQ6AEIRjAG#v=onepage&q=marlenee%20montana%20gop&f=false</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2016/07/29/your-montana-gop-supported-bundy-gang-gets-it-half-right/">http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2016/07/29/your-montana-gop-supported-bundy-gang-gets-it-half-right/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2008/05/03/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">john-sinrud-ron-marlenee-fighting-imaginary-threats-for-real-dollars/</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">404 record http://www.leftinthewest.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F9E6CCA0097BCDE8EFBF169E57097BB0?diaryId=343</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ronald Charles "Ron" Marlenee</b> (born August 8, 1935) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" title="Politician" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">politician</a> who served in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.state" title="U.S. state" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">U.S. state</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana" title="Montana" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Montana</a> from January 3, 1977 to January 3, 1993.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scobey,Montana" title="Scobey, Montana" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Scobey, Montana</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>With the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census,1990" title="United States Census, 1990" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1990 Census</a>, Montana lost one of its two seats in the House of Representatives</b>. A statewide showdown occurred between the states' two representatives, Marlenee and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Democrat</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Patrick_Williams" title="John Patrick Williams" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Pat Williams</a>. In the House elections of 1992, Williams defeated Marlenee to become Montana's sole congressman. The Montana representative hence has more constituents than any of the other 434 U.S. House members. The state has more population than one average-sized House seat but not enough for two.</font></p><h2 class="" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="visibility: hidden;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; visibility: hidden;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Marlenee&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" class="mw-editsection-link-secondary" style="text-decoration: none; visibility: hidden; background-image: none;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; visibility: hidden;" /></a></span></span></span></font></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000139" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Ron Marlenee</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></font></li></ul></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">April 06, <b>1989</b>|From United Press International</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">WASHINGTON — <b>Cy Jamison, a House subcommittee aide and former assistant to James G. Watt, was nominated Wednesday to head the Bureau of Land Management, which manages 300 million acres of federal lands in the West and Alaska.</b></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><b>Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr.</b> said that with 18 years of experience in natural resources policy making in Congress and in prior jobs with the Interior Department, "Cy Jamison has the qualifications need to skillfully guide the BLM in the task of managing one-eighth of our country's land area."</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">But environmentalists disagreed, saying Jamison has been aligned with forces opposed to creation of new wilderness areas and protection of public lands from development.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">His nomination is subject to Senate confirmation, and environmentalists said they will oppose him.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">For most of the last eight years, Jamison has worked for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Ron Marlenee</span> (R-Mont.) as an aide on the<b> House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee's subcommittee on national parks and federal lands.</b></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The long shadow of James Watt is casting a pall on President Bush's claim to be an environmentalist," said Peter Coppelman, vice president of The Wilderness Society.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 20.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"This appointment is just what we would expect from President Reagan," he added.</span></font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">la times may 89</font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>President Bush's nomination of Delos Cy Jamison, an aide to former Interior Secretary James G. Watt and an adviser to a ferociously anti-environmental member of Congress, as new chief of the Bureau of Land Management has dismayed environmentalists.</b></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They fear that Jamison, if approved by the Senate, will follow the line pursued the last eight years by current Director Robert F. Burford, a Colorado cattleman who is accused of starving the bureau's major environmental programs.</font></p></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ranchers, meanwhile, praised the selection of the 39-year-old Montana native as a sign that the Bush Administration will advance Reagan-era policies that opened public lands to widespread private development.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Cy Jamison is a square shooter," said a friend in Billings, Mont., where Jamison once sat on the City Council. "I think it is wrong for anybody to say that he will be a puppet of the western grazing interests."</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Cy Jamison is a very ardent proponent of (an) agenda that is antithetical to conservation," said Debbie Sease of the Sierra Club. "He will continue to see BLM as an agency of and for the livestock and mining industries."</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jamison declined to return telephone calls seeking an interview for this story.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Burford came to Washington with a similar reputation, because as a Colorado legislator he promoted the Sagebrush Rebellio</b>n, a 1980 movement that sought to give public lands to the states and private developers.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fined, Cited</b></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burford, who as a rancher has been fined and repeatedly cited for illegally trespassing on BLM land, pursues deregulation with such zeal that he is trying to void land-use plans and open 180 million acres to miners and ranchers.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Wildlife Federation has sued him, alleging that he broke the law by failing to notify Congress, hold public hearings or do an environmental study. The NWF is appealing a judge's decision to dismiss the suit on a technicality.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jamison's agenda is less clear because as a congressional aide, he promoted only the philosophy of his congressional boss, Rep. Ron Marlenee (R-Mont.). In that capacity, Jamison earned conservationists' enmity for opposing wilderness issues while championing oil companies</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Supporters praise him for representing the interests of Marlenee's conservative constituents.</span></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Qualifications Questioned</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics not only question Jamison's politics, but his qualifications to run an agency with 7,600 full-time employees and a $700-million budget.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's one thing to say the President should have his guy, which the Senate usually does," said Michael Scott of the Wilderness Society's Montana office. "But the Senate also has the responsibility to see he has the basic skills to manage a major federal agency. There's no indication he has had the experience to do that."</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Candidly, I guess he is untested as an administrator of that magnitude," said Will Brooke, a fellow Marlenee staff member who works with Jamison on the House Interior Committee. "I guess he'll have to prove himself."</font></p></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><h3 class="entry-title clearfix" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.125em; padding: 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div></div><div class="entry-meta" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; float: none; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="entry-content clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 2em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 20.8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">You’ve got to love this: apparently unable to find any meaningful work, former Bozeman Representative John Sinrud and former Montana Representative Ron Marlenee, have teamed up to <a href="http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/05/03/news/local/news04.txt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">form a lobbying group</a>.[404 see june 25?] Their mission? To promote natural resource development and to line the pockets of two totally irrelevant, right-wing hacks.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Too harsh, you say? Well, Representative Sinrud’s record <a href="http://www.leftinthewest.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F9E6CCA0097BCDE8EFBF169E57097BB0?diaryId=343" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.1s ease-in; background-color: transparent;">speaks for itself</a>.</p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">As for Representative Marlenee, I’m afraid that he may have lost touch since losing to Pat Williams in 1992. After all, how insane do you have to be to believe something like this?</p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0.25em 1.5em; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent;"><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1;">Marlenee said the partnership will not be affiliated with any political party, but added:</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1; background-color: transparent;">“Because we’ve got to</span><span style="line-height: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> 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<b> extremists</b> to run the country.”</span></div></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Of course, despite their pro-worker, pro-job rhetoric, <b>Marlenee and Sinrud are creating yet another fringe, anti-labor Republican front group </b>who will desperately dig for as much money as they can from businesses, who would be much better off spending their money on benefits and training for their workers.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">In fact, this news is probably good news for Montana’s labor movement. Can you imagine a worse lobbyist than someone like Sinrud? With his uncompromising idiocy, he’ll probably end up convincing some Republicans in the Legislature to become union supporters.</p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Go get ‘em, boys. Montana’s unions couldn’t ask for better enemies. <span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: transparent;">Don is an English/Debate teacher and debate handbook author who lives in Helena, MT, and who can't imagine living anywhere other than this glorious state. Much of his writing happens late at night and he is unlikely to respond to your comments during the day.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: transparent;">--</span></p><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-transform: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Staffer">Staffer</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="visibility: hidden;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; visibility: hidden;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denny_Rehberg&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Staffer" class="mw-editsection-link-secondary" style="text-decoration: none; visibility: hidden; background-image: none;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 100ms ease-out, margin 100ms ease-out; visibility: hidden;" /></a></span></span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-transform: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rehberg In 1977 he began working as an intern in the Montana State Senate, and two years later he joined the Washington, D.C. staff of Montana U.S. Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Marlenee" title="Ron Marlenee" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ron Marlenee</a> as a legislative assistant. In 1982, Rehberg returned to farming, until running for the State House in 1984.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: transparent;">---</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/lobbying-group-atp-dedicated-to-fighting-radical-environmentalist-agenda/article_3fe2949a-bf39-11e1-978c-0019bb2963f4.html">http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/lobbying-group-atp-dedicated-to-fighting-radical-environmentalist-agenda/article_3fe2949a-bf39-11e1-978c-0019bb2963f4.html</a></p><div class="title-block" style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start; text-transform: none;"><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 46px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lobbying group ATP 'dedicated to fighting radical environmentalist agenda'</font></h1></div><div id="left-rail-mega-ad" style="line-height: 18px; 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</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: transparent;">HELENA – <b>American Tradition Partnership is a 501(c)(4) grassroots lobbying group</b> that bills itself as “a no-compromise grassroots organization dedicated to fighting the radical environmentalist agenda.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Donald Ferguson,</b> ATP’s national director of media and public relations, said it receives contributions primarily from individual donors who on average give between $25 and $50. As a<b> 501(c)(4) </b>group, it is not required to release a list of its supporters. Ferguson said the group as a matter of policy doesn’t release its donor list</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was founded in Montana in <b>2008 as Western Tradition Partnership </b>by former U.S. Rep. Ron Marlenee, R-Mont., and former state Rep. John Sinrud, R-Bozeman.</span> Sinrud since moved to the Flathead Valley.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px;">Ferguson said the group was originally and remains organized in Colorado, while he runs the group’s federal operations in Washington, D.C., where its<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">office</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </b>is located.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: transparent;">A state investigator obtained a 2010 election-year briefing by what’s now American Tradition Partnership. The group told would-be supporters that donations to it were<b> confidential, corporate contributions were allowed, donations were unlimited and it can run “a successful program against the radical environmentalists and beat them at their own game.”</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“If you decide to support the program, no politician, no bureaucrat and no radical environmentalist will ever know you helped make this program possible,” the group’s presentation said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: transparent;">It added: “The only thing we plan on reporting is our success to contributors like you who can see the benefits of a program like this. You can sit back on election night and see what a difference you’ve made.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>The other plaintiffs in the successful lawsuit challenging Montana’s ban on corporate political spending</b> were </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Montana Shooting Sports Association, </span><font style="background-color: transparent;">a gun rights organization with headquarters in Missoula, and Champion Painting, a family-owned, house-painting company in Bozeman.</font></p></div></div></div><div id="related-tags" class="tags clearfix" style="zoom: 1; padding: 15px 0px; margin: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); background-color: transparent;"><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; float: left;">Tags</h3><div class="tag-list" style="margin-left: 55px; line-height: 20px;"><a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22american%20tradition%20partnership%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=American%20Tradition%20Partnership" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">American Tradition Partnership</a>, <a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22donald%20ferguson%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Donald%20Ferguson" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Donald Ferguson</a>, <a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22helena%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Helena" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Helena</a>, <a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22ron%20marlenee%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Ron%20Marlenee" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Ron Marlenee</a>, <a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22jon%20sinrud%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Jon%20Sinrud" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Jon Sinrud</a>, <a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22western%20tradition%20partnership%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Western%20Tradition%20Partnership" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Western Tradition Partnership</a>, <a class="tag-link" href="http://missoulian.com/search/?k=%22campaign%20spending%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Campaign%20Spending" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Campaign Spending</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>