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July 28, 2020

Daines’s Record Deserves ‘Dirty Dozen’ Distinction

Executive Director: ‘No election-year lipstick will pretty up his dirty pig of a record’

(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The Montana Conservation Voters Congressional Action Fund today released the following statement from Executive Director Aaron Murphy in response to U.S. Senator Steve Daines earning a spot on the national “Dirty Dozen” list of anti-conservation candidates:

“No election-year lipstick will pretty up Senator Daines’s dirty pig of a record as a Washington politician. Senator Daines has a long record of supporting swampy bureaucrats who want to sell off our public lands, he pushed for the biggest public lands giveaway in Montana’s history–without public input, and he refuses to stand up to a president who believes our changing climate is a hoax. Senator Daines’s record richly deserves ‘Dirty Dozen’ distinction.”

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund today named Daines to its Dirty Dozen list because of the senator’s “abysmal” lifetime LCV score of only 6 percent:

“[Daines has] taken almost $1.4 million in campaign contributions from corporate polluters and real estate developers who want access to Montana’s public lands. At the same time, Daines has sponsored or supported various bills to sell off or strip protections from our most pristine Western public lands. Daines has also publicly expressed support for William Perry Pendley, Trump’s bigoted, anti-public lands nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management…. Despite efforts to cast himself as a conservationist in recent weeks, Daines’ long anti-environmental record speaks for itself.”

Montana Conservation Voters and its associated political action committee, the MCV Congressional Action Fund, operate independently from the League of Conservation Voters and the LCV Victory Fund.

The MCV Congressional Action Fund has endorsed Governor Steve Bullock, a longtime champion of public lands and conservation issues, in Montana’s race for U.S. Senate.

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