We must heal our country and our earth

Beyond restarting POW-MIA recovery operations, we must heal our country and adapt to our earth.

Healing means building trust and ending graft, the unscrupulous use of public office for personal advantage. By disqualifying candidates who accept donations larger than the $1,740 filing fee, I hope to unburden officials from seeking financial benefactors. Healing requires building bridges of mutual respect with my fellow U.S. senators. As an Abraham Lincoln Republican, I look forward to serving with the Honorable Jon Tester as Montana’s junior senator.

Adapting to our earth requires a national strategy. To offset disruptions by climate change and the pandemic we could power American railroads with electricity generated from wind, firmed probably at Butte by pumped hydro and sent to coastal load centers using the transmission lines serving the electrified railroads. A high-risk, high reward, magnetohydrodynamics demonstration plant with carbon sequestration could be attempted at Colstrip. A federal base-load plant would stabilize our nation’s power grid at its thinnest, and energize an international high-speed railway terminating at Great Falls, the United States end of the famous Alaska-Canadian route to Russia. Aerospace manufacturers could design and build very high-speed ground technology to absorb passengers diverted from using fossil fueled aircraft.

Before you vote review the Honor Montana Compassion and Courage Album of the John Brian Driscoll Facebook page to see my Ace of Hearts tribute to your county or tribal area. When you do your part and vote I will have recovered them.

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John Brian Driscoll of Helena is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.