GOVERNMENT

"It is not the way our Constitution addresses our right to vote to assume that when someone makes a mistake that they’re breaking the law." – Anthony Johnstone, UM Law Professor

I checked Gianforte’s own press releases and found that none of them have included a contact number for media inquiries, much less a name. This is hardly an oversight on Gianforte’s part but rather, it suggests an attempt to shut the public out and limit its ability to interact with Montana’s only member of Congress.

The Legislative Finance Committee will consider the proposed cuts next month before Gov. Steve Bullock makes his final recommendations.

"The resolution that the council adopted inadvertently excluded a couple of items, and in fact there are three areas that we discovered errors on that we do need to correct." Dale Bickell, chief administrative officer, city of Missoula

Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.

It launched in the summer bearing no acknowledgement that it was a product of an official party committee whose sole purpose is to get more Republicans elected.

There is fraud, Mr. Stapleton, and it’s been perpetuated by you on the citizens of Montana when you’ve given them a reason not to trust the results of a free and open election. This is nothing more than a farce, designed to incense lawmakers who will then take steps to make voting unnecessarily difficult which would have the effect of disenfranchising entire blocs of voters.