Guest article from Epoch Times:
21 February 2023
2023 January
LCRCC Resolution on the 2020 Presidential Election!
Lake County Montana
Guest article from Epoch Times:
21 February 2023
2023 January
LCRCC Resolution on the 2020 Presidential Election!
Lake County All Elected Officials
See who has filed for election:
House, Senate, and Congressional Districts
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WE THE PEOPLE! TIME TO TAKE A STAND! PATRIOT or TRAITOR?
Susan Lake’s 4th of July video
WORDS OF WISDOM |
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.” CICERO |
Elected: 3 Nov 2020
Term: 2021 to 2025
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
ATTORNEY GENERAL
SECRETARY OF STATE
AUDITOR
TROY DOWNING
UNITED STATES CONGRESS
MATT ROSENDALE
U.S. Representative Matt Rosendale (house.gov)
RYAN ZINKE
Representative Ryan Zinke | (house.gov)
STEVE DAINES
JON TESTER
Democrat Senator
Elected: 6 Nov 2019
Term: 2019 to 2024
14 Third Street East, Suite #23
Kalispell MT 59901
(406) 257-3360
311 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2604
(202) 224-2644
ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!
Representative government works best when you have a relationship with the people who represent you. After all, they can’t represent you unless they know who you are and what you care about. Here’s a simple way to tell them.
Please write a ‘Thank You’ note to your elected representatives and senators at the state and federal level. Welcome them to the new legislative session, it introduces you as their constituent, lets them know you are a Christian, reminds them of the biblical values you embrace, and pledges your prayer support during their term.
Website for ALL US Representatives
Contact YOUR Representative in US Congress
TESTER VOTES TO ADVANCE “ABORTION ON DEMAND UNTIL BIRTH ACT”
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~ John Adams
EQUIPPING CONSERVATIVES
TO WIN AT HOME
MT FREEDOM CAUCUS
Legistats SENATE Rankings (Is YOUR senator representing YOU?)
REPRESENTATIVE ~HOUSE DISTRICT 10
Mark Lee Noland
P.O. Box 1852
Bigfork MT 59911-1852
(406) 253-8982
E-mail: Mark Nolan
REPRESENTATIVE ~ HOUSE DISTRICT 12
Linda Reksten
Republican
118 Long Lake Drive
Polson MT 59860
(406) 471-8359
E-mail: Linda Reksten
REPRESENTATIVE ~ HOUSE DISTRICT 15
Weatherwax (D)
P.O. BOX 2828
BROWNING, MT 59417
(406) 338-7741
E-mail: Marvin Weatherwax
REPRESENTATIVE ~ HOUSE DISTRICT 93
SENATE ~ DISTRICT 5
BOB KEENAN
Elected: 6 Nov 2018
Term: 2019 to 2022
PO BOX 697
Bigfork, MT 59911
(406) 250-4111
E-mail: Keenan@mtleg.gov
SENATE ~ DISTRICT 6
GREG HERTZ
Republican
Term: 2020 to 2024
P.O. BOX 1747
Polson, MT 59860
(406) 253-9505
E-mail: hertz@mtleg.gov
SENATE ~ DISTRICT 8
Susan Webber
Democrat
Term: 2019 to 2022
PO BOX 1011
Browning, MT 59417
(406) 450-1894 | E-mail: nitzitapii@gmail.com
SENATE ~ DISTRICT 47
Dan Salomon
Republican
Term: 2019-2024
42470 Salomon Road
Ronan MT 59864
(406) 253-9724
E-mail: salomon@mtleg.gov
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
See if your state has already passed a related bill, or has one in the works.
Hello, does Representative ______ have any plans to propose or support _________ legislation? This is very important to me. I did my research and saw we have/have not passed a bill on this topic in the past. I am hopeful that we will see a bill that protects all citizens from _______, not just specific industries, or whatever is appropriate to your concern. Please respond and let me know what has happened on this particular bill/subject. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Your Name
ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!
Representative government works best when you have a relationship with the people who represent you. After all, they can’t represent you unless they know who you are and what you care about. Here’s a simple way to tell them.
Please write a ‘Thank You’ note to your elected representatives and senators at the state and federal level. Welcome them to the new legislative session, it introduces you as their constituent, lets them know you are a Christian, reminds them of the biblical values you embrace, and pledges your prayer support during their term.
Legislator’s Scorecard;
Check out how YOUR representative voted during the 68th session!
Voting Scoreboard
When the Drag Queens Showed Up at the Montana Legislature: Montana lawmakers are advancing legislation to protect kids on a number of fronts, including a bill that would prohibit minors from attending drag shows. The bill would require that attendees of a drag show are at least 18 years old.
ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!
Representative government works best when you have a relationship with the people who represent you. After all, they can’t represent you unless they know who you are and what you care about. Here’s a simple way to tell them.
Please write a ‘Thank You’ note to your elected representatives and senators at the state and federal level. Welcome them to the new legislative session, it introduces you as their constituent, lets them know you are a Christian, reminds them of the biblical values you embrace, and pledges your prayer support during their term.
Montana Rules for Redistricting
Click Here for Montana Bill Tracker!
LegiScan: Bringing People to the Process
Montana Bill Look Up Information
Senator Dan Salmon VOTING RECORD
Termed OUT 2023
leg.mt.gov
Tutorial to help you create a preference page to stay up with bills you are interested in.
Easy instructions to help you contact your legislators!
OATH, noun
A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. The appeal to God in an oath implies that the person imprecates his vengeance and renounces his favor if the declaration is false, or if the declaration is a promise, the person invokes the vengeance of God if he should fail to fulfill it.
A false oath is called perjury.
Psalm 15:1 Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain?
2 Whoever walks without blame, doing what is right, speaking truth from the heart;
3 Who does not slander with his tongue, does no harm to a friend, never defames a neighbor;
4 Who disdains the wicked, but honors those who fear the Lord;
5 Who keeps an oath despite the cost, lends no money at interest, accepts no bribe against the innocent.
MONDAY | FEBRUARY 27.2023
When the Drag Queens Showed Up at the Montana Legislature: Montana lawmakers are advancing legislation to protect kids on a number of fronts, including a bill that would prohibit minors from attending drag shows. The bill would require that attendees of a drag show are at least 18 years old.
ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!
Representative government works best when you have a relationship with the people who represent you. After all, they can’t represent you unless they know who you are and what you care about. Here’s a simple way to tell them.
Please write a ‘Thank You’ note to your elected representatives and senators at the state and federal level. Welcome them to the new legislative session, it introduces you as their constituent, lets them know you are a Christian, reminds them of the biblical values you embrace, and pledges your prayer support during their term.
Montana Rules for Redistricting
Click Here for Montana Bill Tracker!
LegiScan: Bringing People to the Process
We have a member of our community looking for individuals/families who purchased property or inherited property that did not have water rights filed by 1982. Many of the individuals felt it was better to have a land patent instead of a water right so they did not file and now they have to fight for their water.
If you are one of these individuals who have a land patent and did not have water rights filed by 1982, please send me the following:
If you send me the above information, I will forward your information to the individual asking to collect the information. She is working with members of the state legislature to fight this. We need to attack the compact on numerous fronts – this is another one that will help! JR jmreffner@gmail.com
16 August 2023 Crypto & the Tribe
1 August 2023: The Cancer of Government Deemed “Self-Determination
Saturday, 22 July 2023: Greg and Steve are at it again
Video: Ph.D. Hydrogeologist BLAMES CSKT Water Compact for Low Flathead Lake Levels
17 July 2023 Politics of Lake Draw Down
17 July 2023 | MONDAY: Flathead Lake Levels: Part of a MUCH Larger Problem
13 July 2024: What Happens if the Compact Gets a Thumbs Down?
11 July 2023 The Bigger Picture: Please Don’t Lose Sight of IT!
9 July 2024 Response to a Commenter
19 May 2023 FRIDAY: Tim Orr letter to Editor
Montana Water Compact Gives Away Our RIGHTS! by Bret Bailey
6 December 2022 Water Court Posts Objections
The CSKT Compact, Montana Water Rights Protection Act:
Similar Federal Actions; and Making it Work for Montana
US CONSTITUTION
Article VI. Debt. The Constitution, Laws, and Treaties are the supreme Law of the Land. Operative word is “and”:
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Article I. Powers Granted to Congress. Indian Tribes are not “foreign nations”.
Section 8, Clause 3. “ to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes”
Article I: Compact with the United States. All provisions of the enabling act of Congress (approved February 22, 1889, 25 Stat. 676), as amended and of Ordinance No. 1, appended to the Constitution of the state of Montana and approved February 22, 1889, including the agreement and declaration that all lands owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the United States, continue in full force and effect until revoked by the consent of the United States and the people of Montana.
The purpose of the MT Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission is to: “…conclude compacts for the equitable division and apportionment of waters between the state of Montana, its people and the several Indian tribes claiming reserved water rights (MCA 85-2-701) within the state, and the state, its people and the federal government claiming non-Indian reserved water rights within the state (MCA 85-2-703)
A federal reserved water right arises when the United States withdraws a parcel of land from the public domain for a specific purpose—like an Indian Reservation, National Park, National Forest, etc.—there is impliedly “reserved” an amount of water to fulfill the purposes of that federal reservation of land. This was decided in a Supreme Court case in 1908 called U.S. v Winters regarding irrigation from the Milk River in Montana. This is known as the “Winters Doctrine”.
A federal reserved water right has the following characteristics:
ALL THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THE CSKT/UNITED STATES IN THE CSKT COMPACT AND DAINES BILL IS A “TRIBAL RESERVED WATER RIGHT”. It is thus NOT a federal reserved water rights settlement as defined by federal law or by Montana law.
The CSKT decided that it, not the U.S. government, reserved the reservation. Thus, the entire settlement is about ‘tribal reserved water rights’, not federal reserved water rights. Tribal reserved water rights do not exist in law or anywhere in the United States.
TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT DATES
As somewhat of a summary, the CSKT Compact and the Daines bill are “done deals” in the sense of having passed the Montana legislature and Congress, but that’s all. Now comes the hard part: the “nuts and bolts” phase, the development of mechanisms for implementation, and the working out of conflicts and issues. There is A LOT of work to do to make this work for Montana, and it can be done. Also, almost all of the premises of both documents are now ripe for challenges in federal court, as will be any phase of implementation. In this speaker’s opinion, this was a pyrrhic victory—one that causes more damage than the problem it ‘solves’: to existing state and federal law and institutions, the economy of Lake, Flathead, and Sanders Counties; agriculture in eastern and western Montana; and federal Indian law across the western United States. Stay tuned.