In an opinion piece published at the Flathead Beacon last month, titled “Accountability and Rejecting the Epstein Class“, Alani Bankhead began her piece by declaring she hasn’t raped anyone.
Well, glad we got THAT cleared up!
When Monday’s deadline to dropout passed without anyone dropping out, the electoral victory of Republican Kurt Alme became a very high probability, meaning Democrats will spend the next 3 months playing the victim card for their candidate, which began in earnest yesterday with the top Democrat in Montana saying this:
On Tuesday morning, a day after Democratic Senate candidate Alani Bankhead confirmed she wasn’t quitting the campaign, Montana Democratic Party executive director Emily Marburger held a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Helena. Marburger expressed frustration with what she called “bullying tactics” to pressure Bankhead out of the race.
“These past few weeks have tested me and my staff and our candidates up and down the ballot in ways that are, frankly, shameful,” she said.
Emily Marburger is a woman, as is Alani Bankhead. When you continue reading Bankhead’s op-ed, she cleverly makes an observation about men being her opponents, then quickly pivots to “records” to avoid the gender issue she just cynically deployed:
Every other major opponent in this race happens to be a man. That’s not the issue. Their records are.
One of them is Seth Bodnar. Court records demonstrate that his management while serving as President of the University of Montana resulted in a settlement that forced the university to put in place protections and procedures that help prevent discrimination and better protect victims of discrimination. Now, despite the settlement, Bodnar says the women who won the settlement are not telling the truth and are “without merit.” The women don’t agree.
So, when does Alani Bankhead start talking about rejecting the Epstein Class? She only mentions Epstein once in this op-ed, and Bankhead’s Epstein reference comes after she references a sexual abuse case overseen by Alme, and she does this to score political points against the same system that PAID HER to be a consultant three years ago.
Interesting.
Another opponent, Kurt Alme, has hung his hat on being Trump’s nominee. He conspired with Daines to rob the people of Montana of the ability to choose their Republican nominee. He stands against women’s privacy and body autonomy and, during his time as U.S. Attorney in Montana, cut a deal with a child rapist that allowed a police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl to serve less than a year in prison and avoid being registered as a sex offender. As a U.S. Attorney, he declined 64% of their sex assault referrals. Is a person with that weak record against sex crimes really going to hold the Epstein class accountable?
The system of weak accountability for the Epstein Class that Alani Bankhead is criticizing as a candidate looks just like the criminal justice system she was getting PAID BY three years ago as a consultant, which, in my mind, makes Alani Bankhead a PART OF THE PROBLEM. Lucky for her, holding women accountable in this current environment is nearly impossible when they make such ideal victims.
For more on how Montana’s Board of Crime Control has embraced “trauma-informed” trainings for their law enforcement professionals, here are some more screenshots from the Board of Crime Control 2023 sessions, held at Fairmont Hot Springs, where Bankhead was the key-note speaker (I wrote about the MBCC’s event at this location in 2022):
Being a “key” part of this MBCC training circuit is circumstantial evidence that Alani Bankhead is a political plant who knows her candidacy is part of a vote-splitting effort to ensure Kurt Alme wins in November. When she loses, which everyone knows is pretty much a guarantee, watch what kind of job she gets, because THAT will be the tell. Until then I expect Bankhead to continue playing the victim card by depicting men as bullies, and any future use of the name “EPSTEIN” will be simply be to score political points (while keeping the Epstein focus OFF Montanan Democrats, where it partly belongs).
In her July op-ed, more circumstantial evidence of Bankhead’s true role can be found in her targeting of the DSCC to conclude her virtue-signaling concern about the Epstein Class like this:
Less impressive is the absolute lack of support or even encouragement from my national Democratic colleagues at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). The DC elites think they know how to win elections in Montana, and yet the 2026 election clearly demonstrates their strategies no longer work.
They were all in for Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, until they weren’t. And now there’s a new opportunity to redraw the roadmap to getting corruption out of the U.S. Senate. The country is hungry for leaders who have spent their careers protecting people – not protecting institutions or powerful insiders.
It’s not too late for the DSCC. We can take back the leadership of the U.S. Senate, and that path toward victory goes through the Big Sky State. I hope that the recent scrutiny of some of our less qualified, turbulent candidates will inspire these decision-makers to embrace candidates like me – an experienced leader with an honorable military background, a passion for public service, and a track record of protecting and defending our communities.
Can Alani Bankhead credibly claim to have a track record of protecting and defending our communities when, by every metric, shit is WORSE THAN EVER?
While Alani Bankhead was helping America lose wars by deploying with Special Forces, then moving on to command an OSI detachment in Kuwait, I was working with homeless people, including LOTS of Veterans who our military broke, then discarded to make their problems the problems of local communities, like Missoula.
Around this same time Brandon Bryant became a whistleblower because, apparently, not every service member was able to stay quiet about the kind of drone technology that they saw killing more and more innocent civilians abroad, in dubious theaters of war–the same technology that is now coming home, so the police who operate in Montana with virtually no consequences can keep themselves even MORE insulated from adverse outcomes.
Brandon Bryant and I are now HEAVILY targeted by local authorities, and part of that targeting includes maximizing the threats we supposedly pose by depicting us as VIOLENT MEN who must be stopped before we snap.
When I saw this narrative forming against Brandon Bryant last August, I wrote this post just a few days before cops beat Bryant up on a Missoula sidewalk.
As I continue looking into the most difficult and dangerous corruption a broke blogger can look into–the kind hidden behind badges, acronyms like CCJI, and the structurally-assured outcomes of coroner’s inquests–new and interesting leads sometimes appear, like the one I’m working on now.
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Thanks for reading!
