Deregulated, eased water standards, built prisons even though there isn't much need in MT. Took "The Last Best Place" and held it down for the corporations to rape.
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair08092003.html<snip> While Racicot slashed services and taxes, he also funneled what little money remained in the Montana treasury into costly projects that benefited political donors. For example, Racicot spent tens of millions of dollars on a new software system for the state government that was supposed to minutely track agency budgets and expenditures. Nearly a decade and $50 million later, the system still doesn't function and the workings of state's budget (now deep in the red) remains as opaque as the rituals of Eleusis.
<snip> Although the state of Montana was veering toward bankruptcy, Racicot sank $100 million into the construction of new prisons, which were built by political donors. The problem was that Montana was one of the few states with an overcapacity of prison beds. The prisons went up anyway and despite a slate of harsh new laws passed under Racicot and Martz to lock up more Montanans the new prisons remain underbooked. Now, Montana is desperately looking to rent out its empty cells to other states.
<snip> Montana once enjoyed the toughest clean water laws in the country. Racicot dismantled them in 1995 when he signed a bill backed by mining and oil companies which raised limits on the discharge of toxins and carcinogens into Montana's streams, allowed corporations the right to police their own conduct and at the behest of the coal methane producers expanded the luxury to foul groundwater to the very boundaries of polluter's property.
Worked for ENRON while working for RNC. That about says it all
<snip> One of Racicot's chief clients during those tumultuous early days of the Bush administration was in dire need of a well-placed hand: Enron. Even after Racicot was selected to head the RNC, he refused to drop Enron as a client. His efforts to protect Enron during its time of tribulation certainly paid off for the company's executives. While Martha Stewart faces federal charges over a $200,000 stock deal, Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who bilked investors out of billions, enjoy afternoons on the most exclusive golf courses in Houston.
This man has no care at all for fair elections. He wants to turn America over to his Corporate masters. He has a record of doing so.
The DLC needs to expose this man and make him impotent in American politics. Kerry has other things to attend to.Edited for typo AND to add, somebody was looking into his status during the Vietnam years and couldn't even turn up any evidence that he had regestered for the draft as he was required to. Which DUer was it who was looking into that several months ago?
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