Dramatic reenactment of actual events
I still don't know where the Republican Party is finding these people, but
they keep finding them.
Greg Gianforte, a tech entrepreneur whose foundation donated to a creationist dinosaur museum, filed paperwork this week for an exploratory campaign to run for governor of Montana.
Greg Gianforte is a man who got rich in the software business and who has been repaying the karmic favor by funding anti-LGBT hate groups such as the Family Research Council. He's also a generous benefactor to the region's gloriously wacky creationist museum.
[Gianforte's] foundation donated the T. rex and Acrocanthosaurus exhibit to the $1.5 million Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, which opened in 2009. The Billings Gazette noted at the time that it was "the largest donation for a specific exhibit."
And why, pray tell, does a creationist museum need or want a T. rex or Acrocanthosaurus exhibit? Because this is one of those creationist museums that posits—nay, asserts outright—that The Flintstones Were Real.
"Whenever dinosaurs and humans were forced to share an environment, the natural course was for humans to kill the dinosaurs," notes the museum's Facebook page.
That Gianforte's foundation funds hate groups is probably a bigger story than him funding exhibits about our forefathers' valiant battles against the fearsome Tyrannosaur, but this story is more fun. Anyhoo, so that's just one of the folks who thinks maybe he wants to be a new Republican governor. He's got money and a pretty good idea on who is or isn't ruining America, and isn't that really all you need?