Shocked that Democrats are running musician for Congress

I’m shocked to see that the Democrats are running a musician and poet (Rob Quist) for the open Congress seat. Have they run out of community organizers and agitators? Evidently so, because President Obama had a major gathering in Chicago to educate the new crop of snowflakes on how to destroy America and the world.

Quist was a supporter of Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders in the most recent Democratic primary. Many people quote Montana values as the bedrock reasons to vote for a candidate. If you support a socialist, is that a “Montana value?” On the Quist website he mentions his opponent as a New Jersey Multimillionaire (even though) Mr. Gianforte is a resident of Bozeman.

In his political statements, Mr. Gianforte states, “ We founded RightNow Technologies 20 years ago in our Bozeman home and grew it into the town’s largest commercial employer, creating over 500 high-paying Montana jobs, employees with an average Montana salary near $90,000 a year”. Ask Mr. Quist how many high paying jobs he created in Montana or anywhere?

A true sense of the Gianforte character is to visit his family foundation website (https://gianfortefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/giving-2016.pdf) for a copy of their 2016 report. There is a pie chart showing over $51 million in donations since it was founded in 2005. Also, for 2016, over $8 million in donations with $2.7 million for the Bozeman area and $3,1 million for other Montana areas. Mr. Quist, how much has your foundation donated to Bozeman and Montana?

You choice is simple. I like those New Jersey values over those of Mr. Quist.

—Walt Rucinski

Libby