Chuck Baldwin — My Response To A Newspaper Editor

I believe it would be beneficial for my readers nationwide to read, not only the two newspaper reports and editorial regarding my move to Montana–and the speech I gave on that Tuesday night–but also my response to the Beacon’s Kellyn Brown.

Therefore, what follows is the column that I wrote for the Flathead Beacon.[Start of the column sent to the Flathead Beacon] I want to thank Kellyn Brown for welcoming me to the Flathead Valley with his editorial in the January 28, 2011, Flathead Beacon. I am honored that he would devote an entire editorial to my speech. I wish, however, that Kellyn had been a little more accurate in his assessment of what I said. After all, he is the paper’s Editor-in-Chief.Kellyn opened his column saying, “Chuck Baldwin moved to Montana a few months ago and has vowed to mold the state into what he thinks it should look like.”Kellyn, where and when did you hear me say that? My family and I including 5 heads of households, and a total of 18 people–11 of whom are here now, and 7 more arriving this spring did not move here to mold the wonderful State of Montana into anything.

We came here because we love the mold that makes Montana what it is: an independent, self-reliant, freedom-loving State. If we wanted to mold Montana into someplace else, we would have moved or stayed there!Kellyn then takes great liberty with one statement I made out of an hour-long speech by saying, “The litmus test for becoming a ‘real Montanan,’ according to Baldwin, is determined by whether you agree with him…………………….

via Chuck Baldwin — My Response To A Newspaper Editor.