Gov Schweitzer's tendency to stretch the truth is well know, but now he's stretching time too.  The Trib has a great story today on the ongoing investigation into the apparently-illegal public service announcement the Gov did for "National Ag Month."  The trouble is, there is no "National Ag Month."  There's a National Ag Day, and a National Ag Week, but no such thing as National Ag Month.

What's worse, this stretch of the imagination (and time) wasn't a mistake--Schwetizer intentionally invented National Ag Month in order to be able to run the illegal PSA for a longer period of time!  Here's an excerpt of the email that the Schweitzer comm team sent along to radio stations with the mp3 file attached: "National Ag Day is the first day of spring.  We broadened the concept a little to allow for longer air time."

It's pretty obvious from that statement alone Schweitzer wanted maximum exposure from these PSA's, and not maximum exposure for a fictitious appreciation month.  If that doesn't violate the PSA moratorium for elected officials running for office, we don't know what would.