For Secretary of State Corey Stapleton, what a difference six months can make!

Y’all remember James Watt from the Reagan Administration? It seems our current Secretary of the Interior (former Montana congressman Ryan Zinke) is in love with what that guy stood for.

Hecla Mining is whining about being shut out of a mining permit.  CEO Phillips Baker was CFO with Pegasus Gold.  Pegasus left millions of dollars in clean-up work for taxpayers to cover in Montana.

Fish & Wildlife service reversed a Obama administration ban on importing parts from sport trophy hunts in Africa and elsewhere.

Troy Downing’s ridiculous ad hit a new low on Montana campaign history.

Russ Fagg touts his endorsement by failed former Gov. Judy Martz, even though she died last year.

Direct quotes from the celebratory dinners on the same weekend.  Joe Biden is the former Vice President.  David Clarke is a former sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Just one example of the excesses among Trump’s cabinet members.

U.S. Rep. Gianforted upped the ante (and acreage) on Sen. Daines’s proposal to reduce WSAs.

Newly installed U of M President Seth Bodnar raised eyebrows by hiring a Chief of Staff at $75,000 in the wake of staff and faculty cuts.