Sam Forstag

And it's the same if it's a fire burning into a subdivision.

And so you've got to call in a large air tanker to drop retardant to stop that thing before a house burns.

Or if it's a 62-year-old woman sitting in the emergency room at St.

Patrick's, the hospital here in Missoula, we all end up paying so much more for the least effective way to solve that problem.

Yeah, I mean, when all these doge cuts started, I was going into my fourth season of smoke jumping.

I was also a vice president at my union's local.

It's Niffy Local 60.

We're the first unionized national forest in the country on the low, low here just outside of Missoula.

And they ended up firing about a quarter of the Forest Service in Montana.

in one year, just last year.

And most of the people that they fired in the name of efficiency were folks making less than 20 bucks an hour, swinging tools in the woods and making sure that you can make it up a road to a trailhead or up a trail to access your public lands or conducting the science to keep our air and water clean.

None of that is about efficiency.

It was all about power and consolidation.

And when I reached out to Ryan Zinke, the schlub we got sitting in office here as our representative, I got crickets time and time again.

So I decided if he's going to come take my coworkers and my members' jobs, I'm going to come take his.

Yes.

Yeah.

We got another political puppet in Aaron Flint.

He's a little talk radio host who's been spewing hate and hot air on the radio for the last 10 or 15 years.

Well, a lot of us have been actually doing the damn work and trying to help our neighbors.