the Big Sky Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Electric City Weblog found a video clip on YouTube that Montanans should see. In the clip, Montana Secretary of State Brad Johnson and former U.S. Senator Conrad Burns appear on Fox News to discuss the controversy over Governor Brian Schweitzer’s “election tampering” comments at a trial lawyers’ meeting. The consensus seems to be that either [...]
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said in a July fundraising speech that he tampered with the 2006 election, in which fellow Democrat Jon Tester narrowly beat Conrad Burns for the U.S. Senate. Specifically, Schweitzer jokingly described how he rigged the release of one county's election results with the goal of avoiding a recount and how he prompted reservation cops to run-off Republican poll watchers...
Intelligent Discontent (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Do you ever wonder if, now that Conrad Burns is off in a life of lobbying, Representative Rehberg feels the need to ratchet up his buffoonery to maintain Montana’s reputation for having one totally incompetent member of Congress at a time? Rehberg’s never been a particularly good Representative, but in the past few months, he [...]
NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Enthusiastic Ron Paul supporters waited through a $45 a plate dinner, multiple GOP speakers and an auction conducted by Conrad Burns to hear their candidate speak Friday night at the 2008 State Convention Banquet. They say it was worth it. "He was fantastic," said Elena Gagliano, a retired Philipsburg Mont. resident. "He believes in freedom and I'm sick and tired of infringement on my life." Paul,...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
HELENA, Mont. - The campaign of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says it is sticking with former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns as its state chairman, following his comments last week that McCain was not his first choice. Earlier Thursday, Montana ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
SANDPOINT, Idaho - Former Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana told delegates at the Idaho State Republican Convention that he's thrown his support behind presumptive GOP presidential candidate John McCain - even though he originally would rather have seen t ...
The Sleuth (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
There's drunk, and then there's knee-walking drunk, to steal a phrase from Conrad Burns, the colorful former senator from Montana. And Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) definitely fits into the category of knee-walking drunk. Fossella was arrested early Thursday in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Va., and charged with driving while intoxicated. Now, an NBC affiliate in New York reports that the Staten...
4&20 blackbirds (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
by Pete Talbot The Montana progressive blogosphere is abuzz with Obama/Clinton analysis, opinion and prophesy, and rightly so. Montana’s Democratic primary is the biggest political thing to happen in Big Sky Country since Sen. Jon Tester took out Sen. Conrad Burns in 2006, effectively putting the U.S. Senate in Democratic hands. For the moment, though, I [...]
43rd State Blues: Democracy for Ida (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
It appears we have evidence that Risch just can't help himself, he's just a liar. Last year in neighboring Montana, conservative Republican U.S. Senator Conrad Burns was defeated in large part due to and [sic] a huge influx of cash from wealthy Democrat [sic] donors in left-wing bastions like New York City, Hollywood, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco! Except, well, Burns outspent Tester, Burns...
Kicking Ass (Free subscription) | 01/28/2008
McCain accepts the endorsement of Bear-DNA Earmarker (and Jack Abramoff's favorite former Senator) Conrad Burns: John McCain went to the Senate floor in 2003 to mercilessly ridicule a fellow Republican, then-Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, for tucking a $1 million earmark into a spending bill to study the DNA of Montana's bears. "One can only imagine and conjure up an idea as to how this might be used,"...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/28/2008
Senator's tendencies make them shudder to think he might be their nominee PENSACOLA, Fla. — John McCain went to the Senate floor in 2003 to mercilessly ridicule a fellow Republican, then-Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, for tucking a $1 million earmark into a spending bill to study the DNA of Montana's bears.
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
John McCain unexpectedly gave chairmanship of his Montana campaign to former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., Saturday. The position had belonged to Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger for four weeks. The change was announced during the final hours of the Montana ...
2008 Presidential Campaign Blog (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
SENATOR CONRAD BURNS ENDORSES JOHN MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that former Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) has endorsed John McCain for president and will serve as the Chairman of John McCain...
Billings Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Conrad Burns was interviewed Friday on David Berg's "Voices of Montana" radio talk show. Most of the discussion was about how wonderful Burns is and what meanies the Democrats and media were for mentioning his ties to Jack Abramoff. But there also was this: Burns raised doubts about using primaries to select presidential candidates rather than picking candidates at political conventions as in the
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
HELENA - The recent announcement that former Sen. Conrad Burns is no longer under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department came as a welcome relief to him. Yet it was at least 14 months too late for the Montana Republican to save his Sena ...
