Montana Dems generate false chaos in Legislature but eventually lose fight over ballot measures

This account at Yahoo News almost gets it right.  However, it does reveal the chaos that Democrats will falsely generate to try to keep one of their voting schemes in place.  Despite the general lack of integrity to the process of same day registration and voting, Democrats normally ignore those warnings and support the measure because their activists push for it and they believe it marginally helps them at the ballot box.  Montana gives us a snapshot of the issue:


Over loud objections from Democrats, Montana‘s Republican-controlled Senate on Friday voted to put proposals on the 2014 ballot that would tighten voter registration and restrict the rights of third parties to compete in general elections.The measures, which are expected to be approved by the Republican-majority House, do not need approval from the Democratic governor. They would go before Montana voters in November of next year. Democrats tried to stall action on the bills through a
rarely used parliamentary procedure, demanding that the vote be delayed
until a missing Democratic senator was found and brought into the
chamber.

Chaos reigned as Democrats unveiled their true progressive nature.  Montana Democrats purposefully lied to the citizens of Montana and leadership of the Montana Senate that one of their senators was missing, whereabouts unknown, to avoid a vote of the legally constituted legislature of Montana.  In furtherance of the lie, they screamed, they voiced their loud objections, they pounded their desks, they talked over recognized speakers, and they demanded to be heard; all to further the lie and charade.  According to this account, their missing Senator wasn’t looking for a cup of coffee, he was purposefully closeted.

Sen. Shannon Augare, D-Browning, left the Capitol on Friday in order to
set the stage for a “call of the Senate” motion, a parliamentary
procedure that allows a minority body to call on a missing member before
business can resume. Sources say Augare may have headed to Browning.
Augare’s disappearance was designed to force a stop to all business in
the Senate on a critical deadline day for bills proposing referendums.

Meet the lying and missing state senator.

A Republican called it “disgraceful.”  The Democrat Governor, feigning a
lack of knowledge, called the “tone” worse than DC.  Right on both counts.  One account predicted that as a result of the falsely generated chaos by Montana Democrats, there will be a unified Republican Party
in the closing weeks of the legislature.  The rest of the country should take notes for future reference on the motivations and tactics of Democrats on voting issues.