Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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In addition to casting votes for three-quarters of the state’s congressional delegation, an open state Supreme Court seat, two Public Service Commissioners and legislative candidates, Montanans will also weigh in on three ballot measures in the upcoming election. Those measures, which have already satisfied multiple requirements to appear on the ballot, allow voters to directly amend the state Constitution or statutory code. This year, Montana voters will determine via initiative the future of nonpartisan state courts, corporate spending in p...
The Montana-based group promoting a ballot initiative to make campaign finance more transparent obscures its own financial backers through a murky fundraising structure, according to publicly available campaign finance filings reviewed by Montana Free Press. The Transparent Election Initiative is a nonprofit organization pushing to “stop corporate and dark money cold” in elections. The group is currently aiming to pass a citizen’s initiative — known as The Montana Plan, or I-194 — that would prohibit political spending by “artifici...
