Montana News
Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy accused of plagiarism
With Montana News, I'm Eleanor Smith. A book written by the Republican candidate running for U.S. Senate in Montana appears to contain passages lifted from outside sources without credit. That's according to an analysis from the Daily Montana. The outlet reportedly ran Tim Sheehy's book Mud Slingers, a true story of aerial firefighting through software that scans text and compares it to previously published works. The analysis found that four passages appear to be plagiarized. In a phone call, a Sheehy campaign spokesperson questioned why MTPR was covering this story, and did not offer a statement on the Daily Montana's report. Sheehy is not the first Montana Senate candidate to face reports of plagiarism. In 2014, former Democratic U.S. Senator John Walsh was found to have appropriated others' work without attribution for about a quarter of his master's thesis for the U.S. Army College. He subsequently dropped out of the race.