by Helen Sabin, Corvallis
Thank you Bitterroot Star for the shocking contrast between freshman, first term Kathy Love and experienced legislator HD86 Rep. David Bedey in your Nov. 19 edition. The difference was striking. Bedey’s experience versus Love’s exaggeration.
Love showed her true colors: instead of telling us what she had accomplished as a first term legislator, (nothing!) she denigrated and tried to destroy one of the best legislators we have in the valley who has worked hard to keep Montana the last best place – David Bedey.
Know why she wrote an article bashing Bedey? Because he produced. She didn’t. Jealousy made her show the truth about herself.
The comparison between the two of them is telling: Bedey works for the people, Love works only for herself.
Bedey passed 16 of his 18 bills, all which benefited the people of Montana. Love? She just did phony photo ops for her Facebook pages with the AG at the Corvallis Fire House.
Yeah…You didn’t hear about the state’s Attorney General coming to Corvallis did you? NOPE! He didn’t intend to speak to the people of the valley. He just did a photo op for her and later she went to Helena to do a photo op with him. That’s Kathy Love – the photo-op queen of Ravalli County! All show – no substance.
Her shining star? Kathy Love, State Representative for Ravalli County, voted to defund your child’s school and raise her pay! Americans for Prosperity released the shocking news: Kathy Love HD85, voted to defund your child’s school — and give herself a raise in her first term in the legislature.
https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0262?open_tab=bill HB252 –
Is this what you voted for in 2024?
While Bitterroot kids are trying to learn math in classrooms, and teachers scrape together supplies out of their own pockets, she marched into Helena and cast a vote to gut the public schools. It was not to fix the system, nor to reform it. Just to condemn it. She didn’t even bother going to speak to anyone in the school systems – no…not to the superintendents/principals/teachers or parents who depend on the public schools.
Why did she do this action? The John Birch Society, of which she is a follower, directed her to do so in this action page: https://jbs.org/alert/defund-public-schools/
You know, the same public schools that educated generations of Montanans, from ranch towns to reservations. The schools that feed kids, protect vulnerable students, and keep our community alive. She calls it “liberty.” I call it what it is: sabotage and slavery to the JBS and the Freedom Caucus in Helena. It’s about treating your kids like political pawns in a game of pretending that she is concerned about you and your family.
If she really cared about families, she’d be fighting for stronger schools, higher standards, and more parental involvement — not emptying out classrooms to score points with the John Birch Society.
This brings up the question – will you vote for her in the future?
Kathy has announced her run to be a senator for SD43 – Corvallis, Darby, Connor, Sula, West Fork, and parts of Hamilton – with only four months training as a Representative.
She did so much damage while in this House session, that in the Senate with fewer people to stop her, she will be free to take away gun rights, increase taxes, and do other damage to the people of Montana.
Montana deserves leaders who invest in the future, not ones who defund it.
Love doesn’t LOVE Montana. Dump her at the next election!
Tracy says
Well said Helen