Veteran Pitches in On Transparency Battle

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel David Oclander has been touring Montana for months urging fellow veterans to support Initiative 194 on the Nov. 3 ballot. The Helena resident's recent stops include East Helena, where he's a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, and Montana City, where he lived when he first moved to the state several years ago.

I-194, or the Montana Plan as it's colloquially known, seeks to curb corporate "dark money" campaign financing by defining corporations as distinct from individuals, effectively reversing, in Montana, the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United...