{"id":40388,"date":"2024-09-04T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=40388"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:13:47","slug":"daily-montanan-republican-candidate-silent-after-talking-about-drunk-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/09\/04\/daily-montanan-republican-candidate-silent-after-talking-about-drunk-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Montanan: Republican candidate silent after talking about &#8216;drunk&#8217; Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/09\/04\/daily-montanan-republican-candidate-silent-after-talking-about-drunk-indians\/timsheehy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1378\" data-attachment-id=\"40391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2024\/09\/04\/daily-montanan-republican-candidate-silent-after-talking-about-drunk-indians\/timsheehy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/04\/timsheehy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1378\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tim Sheehy\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Sheehy&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, appears at a campaign event in Lewiston, Montana, on September 3, 2024. Photo: &lt;a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheehyformt\/posts\/pfbid0ajUwgKSLwAVGoCBJXZKe5rtDQaaQxKo5unadNn94qQ2AhMuyk7kdnCAsdNawvwnql&gt;Tim Sheehy for Montana&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/04\/timsheehy.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/04\/timsheehy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/04\/timsheehy.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Sheehy\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-40391\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, appears at a campaign event in Lewiston, Montana, on September 3, 2024. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheehyformt\/posts\/pfbid0ajUwgKSLwAVGoCBJXZKe5rtDQaaQxKo5unadNn94qQ2AhMuyk7kdnCAsdNawvwnql>Tim Sheehy for Montana<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Audio catches Senate candidate Sheehy commenting on \u2018drunk Indians\u2019<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, September 4, 2024<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Darrell Ehrlick, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymontanan.com\">Daily Montanan<\/a> <\/div>\r\n<P><\/P> <p>U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy is facing criticism after two recordings from November surfaced in which he appears to have characterized the Crow people as drunk in the morning and accused them of throwing beer cans at him in a parade.<\/p><p>Sheehy is running as the hand-picked Republican looking to unseat incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat and Montana\u2019s lone Democratic leader in elected federal office.<\/p><p>The former U.S. Navy SEAL and Bozeman businessman Sheehy made the comments in November, and those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charkoosta.com\/news\/senate-candidate-tim-sheehy-makes-questionable-racially-tinged-remarks-about-crow-reservation\/article_afc75344-6725-11ef-9065-afb44493d9ff.html\">were reported first<\/a> by Char-Koosta News, the official publication of the Flathead Indian Reservation.<\/p><p>However, Sheehy appears to have doubled down on the statements as the first recording was from a Nov. 6, 2023 event in Shelby. Four days later, Sheehy appears to have made similar remarks at an event in Hamilton. The recordings appear on the website of Char-Koosta News.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_indianz-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/NativeVote\/2024\/09\/02\/char-koosta-news-republican-candidate-for-u-s-senate-talked-about-drunk-indians\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/05\/timsheehy-8.jpg\" alt=\"Char-Koosta News: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate talked about \u2018drunk\u2019 Indians\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/NativeVote\/2024\/09\/02\/char-koosta-news-republican-candidate-for-u-s-senate-talked-about-drunk-indians\/\">\n\t\t\tChar-Koosta News: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate talked about \u2018drunk\u2019 Indians\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/NativeVote\/2024\/09\/02\/char-koosta-news-republican-candidate-for-u-s-senate-talked-about-drunk-indians\/\">\n\t\t\t<p>U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, a Republican, made numerous comments linking Native people to alcohol, according to audio published by Char-Koosta News.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Native Vote\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tNative Vote\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<p>The Daily Montanan reached out to Sheehy\u2019s campaign for comment when news first broke on Sunday, but as of Tuesday, had received no comment or explanation.<\/p><p>The audio from the Shelby event has Sheehy talking about ranching on Crow reservation.<\/p><p>\t<style>\t\t\t<\/style>    <div class=\"indent2Container\">        <p>\u201cMy ranching partner and really good friend, Turk Stovall, he\u2019s a Crow Indian and we ranch together on the Crow Reservation. So I\u2019m pretty involved down there, going to the Crow Reservation and their annual Crow parade this year.\u00a0 I rope and brand with them every year. So, it\u2019s a great way to bond with all the Indians being out there while they\u2019re drunk at 8 a.m., and you\u2019re roping together. Every one that you miss, you get a Coors Light on the side of your head.\u201d<\/p><p>    <\/div>\t<p>Sheehy then appears to make similar comments at the event in Hamilton:<\/p><p>\t<style>\t\t\t<\/style>    <div class=\"indent2Container\">        <p>\u201cI strapped on a Sheehy sign to a horse and rode through the Crow Parade and if you know a tough crowd, that\u2019s (it). They let you know if they like you or not. There\u2019s Coors Light cans flying by your head as you\u2019re riding by. You know they respect that. You go where the action is and they say, \u2018You know, the guy\u2019s not that bad. He rode the horse through the parade. That\u2019s cool.\u2019\u201d<\/p><p>    <\/div>\t<p>Calls to the Crow Tribal Executive Chairman went unreturned on Tuesday, and by mid-morning, the voicemail box was full.<\/p><style> figure, .tipContainer, .socContainer, .subscribeShortcodeContainer, .donateContainer {display:none !important;} .youtubeContainer { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom:12px; } .youtubeContainer iframe, .video-container object, .video-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100% !important; height: 100%; margin: 12px 0px !important; } .newsroomSidebar {width:35%;max-width:35%;padding:10px;border-top:solid 2px black;background-color:#d3d3d3;float:right;margin-left:50px;} .snrsInfoboxSubContainer {padding:10px;border-top:solid 2px black;background-color:#d3d3d3;} .halfwidth {float:right;width:50%;max-width:50%;} .indent2Container {margin-left: 1em;margin-bottom:1em; border-left: solid 1px black;padding-left: 2em;} @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {.newsroomSidebar {max-width:95%;width:95%;margin-left:4%} .halfwidth {float:none;width:100%;max-width:100%;} }<\/style> <HR><p><EM><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymontanan.com\">Daily Montanan<\/a> is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Daily Montanan maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Darrell Ehrlick for questions: <a href=\"mailto:info@dailymontanan.com\">info@dailymontanan.com<\/a>. Follow Daily Montanan on <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/dailymontanan\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/daily_montanan\">X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<P>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/dailymontanan.com\/2024\/09\/03\/audio-catches-senate-candidate-sheehy-commenting-on-drunk-indians\/>This story<\/a> is published under a <a href=https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/>Creative Commons license<\/a> (CC BY-ND 4.0).\r\n<\/p><HR>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Sheehy, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana, has repeatedly linked Native people to alcohol while on the campaign trail.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[3786,5326,354,430,5325,56,243,249,55,61,85,675,5240],"class_list":["post-40388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-politics","tag-3786","tag-char-koosta-news","tag-crow","tag-cskt","tag-daily-montanan","tag-elections","tag-media","tag-montana","tag-native-vote","tag-racism","tag-republicans","tag-stereotypes","tag-tim-sheehy","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/04\/timsheehy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-avq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40388"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40400,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions\/40400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}