A Republican lawmaker from the Montana House of Representatives has resigned saying that lobbyists "run this country" and the people "have no voice." Ron Marshall was the representative for Montana House District 87.
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Resigning from that position is like setting down your hose while fighting a fire. It’s still there burning everything around you, you’ve just thrown away your ability to fight back
People need to stop resigning and play the long game—or at least break the system before they walk out! All quitting does is hand them more power. C’mon, we need y’all to do SOMETHING!
This is definitely interesting, but a little too far out of our coverage area for the amount of reporters we have on now. We've been really vibing with the reporting from the nonprofit States Newsroom, which has a branch in Montana, @dailymontanan.com. Might be worth pinging them?
Marshall is a complete POS who got elected so he could self deal and weaken public health protections but then ran headlong into big tobacco lobbyists and ran off whimpering about corruption when he lost. Not wrong with the message the hardly the needed messenger.
2017-21 Trump was in the midst of a regime change, restructuring the entire geopolitical landscape w Putin, giving him the remainder of Ukraine. He’s continuing w that & far more. If he achieves this, we’ll see a systemic collapse. We’re losing our Republic. He must be stopped.
Lobbyists are corporate mafia lawyers hired by institutional investors or old world money who write bills and give them to their puppet politicians. Laws protect oligarch interests not the people.
I don't get it. They do have a voice - it's the lawmakers. If this guy isn't afraid to use his voice to say why he's resigning, why doesn't he stay in office and keep speaking up?
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But also like he again makes a great argument for why legalization and harm reduction is always the best route
Please let us know future Montana developments
I'm going to thank him for his honesty if I can figure out how to
Get him on Fox!