As oil spills into Montana's once pristine Yellowstone River, which flows out of Yellowstone National Park, the Chair of the Montana Republican Party writes in the Missoulian today that ExxonMobil--the company responsible for the oil spill near Billings--"should stick it to Missoula," Montana's second largest community.
The irony of the headline screenshot here is really beyond words.
But all irony aside this is a pretty damning letter. Congressman Dennis Rehberg's campaign manager has been going on the radio to say Republicans are going after Missoula voters. Too bad now we know how Rehberg's party really feels about jobs in Missoula...he's advocating that the company not spend money in local Missoula stores and hotels because they refuse to take a position with him on the megaload shipments.
And it's not just GOP Chair Will Deschamps. Word on the street is that Republican Rep. Dan Kennedy (R-Laurel) thanked Exxon at an EPA town meeting last night, and GOP Gov candidate Ken Miller (R-Laurel) told listeners to the Voices of Montana program that he thought Governor Brian Schweitzer, who was critical of Exxon on Rachel Maddow and other national news outlets, was being "too harsh" on the company.
This diary is cross posted at the Montana Cowgirl Blog.