More Montana Media Follies

Governor Brian Schweitzer demanded the resignation of Montana Dept. of Transportation (MDOT) Director Jim Lynch recently.  The controlled media wishes you to think it was due to Nepotism: Lynch's daughter was hired in 2008 by MDOT.

Brian Schweitzer was in office in 2008.

More likely the source is MDOT's sanction of a corrupt official in Hamilton, Montana named Dennis Stranger who put together a "transportation plan" for our 4300 residents of the unincorporated "city" of Hamilton, MT for the cost of $40,000.00 US when most streets in the village of Hamilton are not painted, nor even have traffic control devices (signs).

Here is our blogpost for MDOT's protecting Dennis Stranger:

http://www.bitterrootvalleynews.com/2011/06/why-is-mdot-protecting-stranger.html

Here is our blogpost exposing Dennis Stranger:

http://www.ethicscomplaint.com/2011/06/dennis-stranger-exposed.html

Dennis Stranger, Hamilton Montana City Planner

building in a floodplain

Video shows edge of floodplain, house built below high mark.

To paraphrase Director Lynch: he was not involved in the hiring process, his daughter is in a different department, and it is strange that four years have gone by before Schweitzer has said anything.

Here is the Missoulian article from Lee Enterprises trying to reassure us idiots that it was the Nepotism issue of Lynch's daughter (the comments mostly don't buy it):
http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_80a3b3ae-c509-11e0-a327-001cc4c002e0.html

Here is the probable reason Lynch was axed from the MDOT directorship: Montana wants oil money for their oversized loads, AND someone at MDOT, probably Lynch decided it was ok to try and prop Dennis Stranger in Hamilton who has very questionable public expenditures, and legal exposure.

Finders Keepers

Virginia Bolen of Hamilton Montana was one of the first brave stances against local corruption, and violation of her rights.  Her account, very thoughtfully written, documents law enforcement abuses against a senior AMERICAN citizen in Montana.

At approximately 70 years of age, she was charged with a FELONY for finding a valuable watch.  It turns out, the owner was friends with the former county attorney's wife.
read more: www.GeorgeCorn.com

Virginia Bolen wrote a book of her experience called Finders Keepers, the strange encounter with local law (enforcement).

Find it at Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Finders-Keepers-Citizens-Bizarre-Encounter/dp/0595508022

The book describes how the local press, mostly Lee Enterprises papers in Montana were helping the hype of the story, and Bolen shrewdly uses the newspaper accounts to their demise.

Hats off and Moxy to Virginia Bolen, featured and interviewed in "Beneath the Beauty" documentary describing her ordeal, with the Ravalli County Sheriff Department, the Ravalli County Attorney Office, specifically former prosecutor Michael Reardon; up for election as Hamilton City Judge in November 2011.
info on documentary: www.BeneaththeBeauty.com

evidence tampering Ravalli County Montana:
http://www.investigativeblogger.com/2011/08/evidence-tampering.html


Virginia Bolen's book is a whistleblower media, and a courageous effort.
a must read in our days of struggle to sustain our established rights in America.

If more Americans such as Virginia Bolen demonstrated their tenacity to fight local corruption, the citizens of this country would not be facing a vortex of judicial problems.  Please read Finders Keepers from Virginia Bolen, and decide if Montana is a place where your hard earned income should be spent to support tourism (the state's ranking source of income).  Montana sits last in the Continental US for Justice, per the US Justice Department in 2007: Mrs. Bolen describes why in her book.