Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate’s ‘below the poverty line’ tale

Montana's Tim Sheehy claims he and wife lived in poverty but own book reveals he had $400,000 to build company

At a recent campaign event in Whitehall, Montana, the Republican US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told voters that a decade ago, when he set up the aerial firefighting company through which he made his fortune, he and his wife were living below the poverty line".

My wife and I homeschool our kids," Sheehy said. We made that decision several years ago. She's a Marine, naval academy graduate, she could have a great job and even when our company was tiny, and we ... were below the poverty line and making no money, we said: No ... the most important job in the world is being a mother.' And she's doing that every day."