Tim Sheehy: Side-stepping responsibility for his words
Montanans deserve a Senator that respects all of us, not one that uses damaging punchlines that divide us.
Senatorial candidate Tim Sheehy’s disrespectful comments about Native people send a dangerous message — that he is okay using negative and tired stereotypes about Montana Indians in an attempt to get elected.
On August 29, the Char-Koosta News published a shocking investigative report revealing the remarks made by Mr. Sheehy at campaign events in Shelby and Hamilton last November. Sheehy, a recent Montana transplant, was recorded saying he ropes and brands with Crow members, and that it's “a great way to bond with all the Indians while they're drunk at 8 a.m.” He further claimed to have had "Coors Light cans flying by your head" while riding in the Crow parade. The Char-Koosta also reported that in separate events in Superior and Helena, Sheehy said Crow tribal members called him ‘white boy,’ and threw Coors cans at his head at their rodeo. Mr. Sheehy shared these damaging stereotypes to his largely white audiences as representations of who we are as Indian people, apparently thinking he could elicit some laughs about his experiences in tribal communities. We aren't laughing.
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