Gender Equity in Montana Legislature – Proposed Constitutional Amendment for the 2014 Ballot

"Let’s be the first state in the nation to set quotas by gender," he said in a phone interview. "We’ll catch the attention of the nation. It will benefit the state economically, socially and culturally in the future."

"We’ll be a better state and have a stronger government and have a stronger democracy," he said. "The states were originally set up to be laboratories in the experiment of democracy. We can do all kinds of things. Why not be an experiment in that case and further the ideals that were set at the founding of the nation in helping democracy grow and prosper?"

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON IR State Bureau

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