Letter to the Editor - Wake up, Montana

Editor,

This upcoming election is very important!

Ladies do you really want to lose your right to privacy, health care and potentially contraceptives? Do you really want ultra-conservative white republican men controlling you?

People do we really want to end our right to same-sex marriages? Almost everyone knows someone or has a family member who is gay. Let’s not take a step backwards.

Ranchers do you want rich people from Bozeman and out-of-staters to continue buying up your ranches and turning them into boutique ranches? Then continue voting for people like Gianforte, Daines, Rosendale, and Zinke! Greg started this trend in Bozeman in the late 1990s! Bozeman used to be a nice town, don’t fall for his and their rhetoric.

The climate is changing whether you like or not. Temperatures continue to rise and we keep getting less rain. More forest fires, drought, and floods. Ranchers are you going to change your ranching practices and get on board with responsible sustainable practices and energy sources or are you going to perish?

Veterans, the only politician in this state trying to help you is Jon Tester. Just look at what Daines and Rosendale did with the recent legislation, they voted No! Thank you, Jon, for building new and improved VA medical facilities around the state.

Young people, our Montana constitution guarantees our right to a clean and healthy environment are you going to let the ultra-conservative greedy republicans remove that right too and destroy this state?

People, wake up. Voting strictly Republican is in fact going to kill this state and I’m tired of them trying to destroy our Montana way of life. Please don’t let ultra-conservative republicans get a stronger foothold in our legislature! This upcoming election is very important, please vote!

Bill Procunier

Bozeman