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By Mark Riffey on 06-14-07

Messrs Barkus, Noonan, etc.

Each and every one of you needs to leave the junior high playground behavior behind and start representing the people of Montana like true statesmen.

Statesman: “one who exercises political leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship”, courtesy of Merriam Webster.

Do any of us actually KNOW someone we would consider a statesman?

You guys - every single one of you - were elected to represent all of the people in your districts, as well as serve the interests of those people and the state as a whole.

Not just the Republican people. Not just the Democrat people. Not just the Libertarian or Constitution party people.

Everyone.

You weren’t sent there to cuss at the governor, posture, have little name-calling slap fights with each other in the press, CYA, represent your party first and foremost (if not only), flog each other with 7 syllable words, much less to take actions and speak words that serve only to embarrass your mothers.

Ask around and I’ll bet you find that a lot of Montanans are sick and tired of the juvenile, time-wasting, argumentative, posturing, my party’s way or the highway kind of behavior that you folks have been serving up.

Here’s an idea: How about doing the work of the state that you were sent to Helena to do, as defined by the Montana Constitution and MCA, per the needs and will of all the people in your district?

I can dream, can’t I?

Mark