Bad enough that GOP gubernatorial candidate Neil Livingstone is trying to phone in his campaign from Washington DC and hasn't lived in Montana for thirty years.
Now he's submitted a bizarre campaign report, which shows that he did not receive a single contribution from anyone in Montana; and, that of the thousands of dollars he spent last quarter, virtually all of it was spent out of state.
Many states, in fact. He's got phone bills from the state of Washington, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, printing costs in Georgia, items in Arizona, Texas, New Jersey, and California, gas and food in New Jersey and Delaware. Staff in Florida (why would he be paying staff in Florida?) and DC. And several thousand dollars to a firm in DC called the Kiawah Group, which is listed as compensation for "strategy."
And whoever these "strategists" are, they apparently don't understand that it is generally not a good idea to report that you have a woman on the payroll in Peru. But Livingstone's report shows that he has a woman in Lima whom he is paying for design work, by the name of Daniela Cabrerizo.
Even worse, was the response from the Neil Livingstone campaign in the Billings Gazette today saying the outsourcing of campaign jobs was done because it was cheaper.
In response to the revelation that the campaign was using a slate of out of state and even foreign venders.
A campaign spokesperson said Livingstone was using the least expensive vendors we can find
This in a state where the GOP spends morning noon and night talking about jobs. This is a campaign that is gonna be over before it even starts.