On July 1, freshman Senator Tim Sheehy’s (R., Montana) Helena district office received a disturbing voicemail.
Earlier that day, Sheehy had joined his Senate Republican colleagues in advancing the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to President Donald Trump’s desk—a vote that apparently did not sit well with one of his constituents, Helena City Commission candidate Haley McKnight.
“Hi, this is Haley McKnight. I’m a constituent in Helena Montana, and I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans. And I hope you’re really proud of that,” McKnight said in an apparent reference to the GOP-passed reconciliation bill’s Medicaid reforms. “I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can’t even treat you for it. I hope that you die in the street like a dog. I…oooooohh. One day you’re gonna live to regret this.”
She then expressed hope that Sheehy, a married father of four, would become infertile, get pancreatic cancer, and die.
“I hope that your children never forgive you,” the voicemail continues. “I hope that you are infertile. I hope you never, manage to get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s**t I’ve ever, ever, ever had, uh, the misfortune of looking at. And you don’t serve Montanans. You serve your own private interests. All that you have done since you’ve gotten into power is do s**t for yourself. God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets, because I will make you regret it. F*ck you. I hope you die.”
Sheehy’s Helena district office phone logs show that McKnight left her voicemail at 1:10 pm MT on July 1.
A North Carolina native, McKnight moved to Montana in 2017 to work as an AmeriCorps Vista member in Butte before moving to Kalispell and then Helena, according to the Montana Free Press. A progressive-leaning small business owner who serves as president of Helena Young Professionals, McKnight is currently running to serve on the Helena City Commission.
