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Montana Democratic Senator Accused of Helping Republicans

By AAN Staff
march 22, 2004  02:06 pm
Montana Democratic Senator Accused of Helping Republicans
No one can doubt Max Baucus's resolve, but they do wonder about his purpose, editor Brad Tyer reports in the Missoula Independent. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee was instrumental in the passage of the controversial Republican-backed Medicare bill and has disappointed environmentalists by supporting a Bush energy bill they see as a threat to the state's Rocky Mountain Front. Tyer describes the ways in which the longtime senator seems to have become "a Republicrat: a liberal swung so far center that right looks like left to him."
View full article at Missoula Independent