by Melva Neal, Stevensville
Those who want power and control over the politics of the valley are stopping at NOTHING to win the current elections including targeting children with their vile mailings.
Bob Kubiak, a man who follows Manzella almost slavishly, sent out a vile mailer to a friend of Wayne Rusk’s youngest son allowing the younger Rusk to be embarrassed at school for something his father did about fifteen years ago.
Even though Rusk Sr. has publicly admitted to a tough time in his life, dealt with his problem, and apologized to his family,, his God,, and the community,, and is a model citizen and successful business owner, Kubiak used it to try and make citizens of the Bitterroot vote for Manzella, of whose campaign he is obviously a part of.
An older man picking on a young teenager to imply “YOUR DAD IS A PIECE OF CRAP” is beyond the pale!
Both Manzella and Kubiak should answer to the citizens of the valley for this type of activity and Bitterrooters should vote for Wayne Rusk for SD44 instead of Manzella and express their displeasure for such a heinous act..
Rusk has NEVER criticized Manzella at any time in his campaign in all the times I have heard him speak and he said that he will never do so.
He instead focused on what he wants to do for the valley by reducing taxes, strengthening personal property rights, dealing with those who block streets and roads to express their opinions and stopping illegals who due to a glitch in the federal law are allowed to vote in our federal elections..
The contrast between them demonstrates what a negative person Manzella and her followers are and why she should no longer represent citizens in SD44.
So how do you find out if Manzella’s claim about being a conservative and constitutionalist are true? Look at the bills she writes that clearly show what her intentions are if she is elected again. One of them, Senate Bill or SB434, is one that will shock you to the core.
BILL URL: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/7554 NULLIFICATION IN HISTORY: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-back- nullification-in-american-history
Here are a few statements from the bill that show her intention: to crush the Constitution and put a few people in charge of the country: Guess who the one from Montana is to be on this committee? Note how she totally ignores the Constitution and denigrates it!
1. The states declare that only the states may ultimately and properly define
the nature and scope of the power intended to be and delegated to the government of the United States by the states in the United States constitution.
2. The commission may consider any sources of information it wishes, including the wording of the constitution of the United States, the writings and speeches of the founders and others in the founding era, the enactments or recorded debates of congress or state legislatures, the opinions of any United States or state courts, arguments made by proponents or opponents to any question submitted, or any other source. No opinion of the government of the United States, including its courts, or of any state or state court is binding upon the commission.
3. A decision rendered by the commission is final and may not be amended or overturned by any agent or branch of any state, any agency or branch of the United States, or by any other nation or organization of nations.
Read enough? Also consider how unproductive Manzella has been for the valley as she failed to pass twelve bills out of seventeen in 2023. That is about a 67% failure rate!! Most of those 12 bills were shot down as “unconstitutional.”
Manzella has her priorities mixed up. She has forgotten that she works for us, not the other way around. Let’s send a true Constitutionalist, Wayne Rusk, to be our senator for SD44 and send Manzella home.