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| Senate candidate Sheehy's book appears to contain four plagiarized portions |
| 2024-09-21 |
| [Daily Montanan] When Montanans see an advertisement or hear U.S. Senate candidate and political newcomer Tim Sheehy speak, he’ll likely talk about his experiences as a businessman and pilot who launched an aerial firefighting company in Bozeman. It’s a central part of the campaign and the candidate’s identity. The Republican who is challenging incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester has built that backstory: First he was a U.S. Navy SEAL, combat wounded, and then a businessman who even wrote a book on aerial firefighting. That book was widely seen as a prelude or introduction of Sheehy as a public figure. The book, "Mudslingers: A True Story of Aerial Firefighting," was also subtitled, "An American Origins Story." It’s part history, part travelogue and part autobiography, published in 2023 by Permuted Press and distributed by publishing giant Simon and Schuster. But, the book which has helped solidify his place as a candidate and authority on aerial firefighting seems to have at least four different passages that were plagiarized — sourced, but not credited in the book, according to an investigation by the Daily Montanan.... The Daily Montanan reached out to the Sheehy campaign for further explanation, but heard nothing back from it.... It is not the first time the details of Sheehy’s life before politics have come under scrutiny for their truthfulness. Sheehy’s past, including a gunshot wound that may have been sustained in Glacier National Park, claims of parachute training over Glacier, and his business dealings including his aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace, have come under fire. It’s also not the first time that Sheehy has remained silent when confronted with difficult questions. Sheehy has not openly commented or explained a recording of him in which he repeated on different occasions disparaging comments about Native Americans drinking, even after being called upon by Montana’s tribal leaders to disavow, apologize or explain the comments. Even the book itself has come under scrutiny: It promises that all of the proceeds from telling the story of aerial firefighters will go back to supporting them. However, as other media outlets have reported, including Business Insider, it appears that the proceeds of the book go back to an aerial firefighting lobbying company which Sheehy himself founded, which in turn, works on behalf of his own company, raising questions about whether the money is really being funneled right back to him.... Related: Tim Sheehy 08/10/2024 Trump's plane diverted over mechanical issue while flying to rally in Montana Tim Sheehy 01/27/2024 The Shadowy Group Targeting A Montana Republican Is Actually A Major Democratic Super PAC |
| Posted by:DooDahMan |
| #6 Meanwhile Kamala is trying to plagiarize Trumps economic points. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-21 20:02 |
| #5 Non-Partisan? Pull the other one |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-21 18:02 |
| #4 But for Trump, the border issue could have been solved |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-21 18:02 |
| #3 Trump continues to demonize immigrants in Ohio as national GOP courts Hispanic vote |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-21 18:01 |
| #2 See: Louisiana’s Sen. John Kennedy layers xenophobic bullying on top of his typical buffoonery |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-21 18:00 |
| #1 This is the second time you posted a Daily Montanan hit on Sheehy? Has any legit, real, ACTUAL NON-Partisan source followed up? Cause I read their page and I think it's a partisan hit sheet? Comment? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-21 17:59 |