Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes PAC Condemns Radical Anti-Equality Montana Senate Candidate Tim Sheehy

by Laurel Powell •

WASHINGTON – Last night, anti-equality politician Tim Sheehy won Montana’s Republican U.S. Senate primary. Sheehy is a self-serving and radical politician who has a pattern of exaggerating and lying about his biography and background. He will say and do anything to get elected–including spreading hateful rhetoric about LGBTQ+ Montanans and embracing policies that threaten LGBTQ+ Americans:

  • Sheehy has a history of inappropriate and bigoted social media activity, including posting “lewd photos of women, racist costumes, and homoerotic jokes.” [Insider, 7/11/23]

  • In a survey commissioned by a Super PAC supporting Sheehy, three gender options were given - “male,” “working woman,” and “homemaker,” in a particularly egregious and offensive display of his regressive views towards his own constituents. [The 19th, 1/25/24]

  • Rather than focus on issues that actually matter to Montana’s parents and their school-age children, Sheehy highlighted “drag queen story time” as one of his top educational issues behind his decision to run – and called for prayer in schools alongside the pledge of allegiance. [Tim for MT, Issues, 3/22/24]

  • Sheehy touts his endorsement from former president Donald Trump, a 34-time convicted felon whose candidacy for president threatens to roll back decades of progress towards LGBTQ+ equality. [Tim for MT, Endorsements, 3/22/24]

  • Sheehy is vehemently opposed to Montanans’ reproductive freedoms; he is endorsed by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which has made support for a national abortion ban a litmus test for its endorsees. [Washington Post, 5/1/23]

While nearly everything Tim Sheehy tells Montanans about himself is exaggerated, his dangerous views on LGBTQ+ equality, reproductive freedom, and access to health care are all too real. Montanans deserve to have a Senator that cares about things that matter to them and their lives, but Tim Sheehy only cares about the interests of wealthy out of staters like himself. Montana’s Equality Voters will make sure he loses at the ballot box in November.

Laurel Powell, HRC Equality Votes PAC Spokesperson

HRC’s Equality Votes PAC will be mobilizing the more than 130,000 Montana Equality Voters–voters modeled to prioritize LGBTQ+ equality when making their voting decisions–from now until November to ensure they know about Sheehy’s dangerous beliefs and understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ+ people in Montana and across the country.

Paid for by HRC Equality Votes PAC (www.hrc.org). Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

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