Montana: Gianforte an avid supporter of hate groups

[TexasTowelie]

I come bearing sad news, Montana.

As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now, Montana’s least favorite New Jerseyan has once again decided to rear his ugly policy stances. This time it’s Ryan Zinke’s recently vacated House seat that Greg Gianforte is after and he’ll be going up against Democratic nominee and Montanan legend Rob Quist. Despite losing in the gubernatorial race to Democratic incumbent Steve Bullock last fall, Gianforte has shown up again in the Montanan political scene with renewed zest and enthusiasm to exert his will and his wealth over every Montanan within his reach.

The day after his nomination, he received $700,000 dollars from the GOP super PAC, Congressional Leadership Fund, and it looks like Gianforte is ready to sink another five million of his own dollars into television and radio ads in an effort to buy Montana’s vote before May 25th just as he attempted to do in the gubernatorial race. Already he’s begun attacking his opponent Quist, attempting to skew his words and appeal to a broad base of Montanans on issues he has little to no comprehension of.

But before we get too far into this race, let’s remember something about good ‘ol Greg: he’s a known homophobe with a horribly dark history of donating to anti-LGBTQ hate groups such as:

– The New Jersey Family Policy Council: a group from Greg’s own New Jersey that specializes in encouraging and carrying out electric shock conversion therapy against LGBTQ minors despite studies that such treatments are highly detrimental to recipient’s mental health. The NJFPC has received 37,500 dollars from the Gianforte Family Foundation and is also designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

– Family Research Council: designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. FRC has long claimed that homosexuality is equivalent to pedophilia and should be treated as such. FRC figurehead Robert Knight said in 1999, “Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement.” The FRC has received 14,000 dollars in donations from the Gianforte Family Foundation under Greg Gianforte and his wife’s name.

– Alliance Defending Freedom: an organization that actively promotes and funds the enforcement of anti-sodomy laws in countries like India, Belize, and Jamaica. Alliance Defending Freedom is another example of an anti-LGBTQ hate group as designated by the SPLC. The group has avidly fought against anti-bullying measures put in place to protect LGBTQ youth and students, maintaining the belief that homosexual and trans students can be “cured” through the proper methods of “treatment.” The group has received 58,500 dollars from Gianforte’s foundation.

Read more: http://mtcowgirl.com/2017/03/12/gianforte-an-avid-supporter-of-hate-groups-guest-post/

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Electric shock therapy on children. Just like Jesus would do, right?

http://robquist.org/

Please, DU, give a couple bucks to the Quist campaign if you can. We have volunteers canvassing all over this state for Quist - I've never seen so much enthusiasm or bigger turnouts of Dems here.

If you live here, sign up! Let's DO this thing!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Speaking of which:

Quist holds campaign kick-off event in Whitefish
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170313/ARTICLE/170319947

[Maru Kitteh]

3. We should have had the Interlake at our volunteer meeting in Kalispell at the brewery

It was huge. We packed the place, there were even people standing in the stairwells.

We were expecting maybe a few dozen and ended up somewhere over a hundred, just for the Flathead Valley.