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4 days ago · Montana Democrats face an underfunded future. At $273 million and counting, Montana’s just-ended 2024 U.S. Senate race is the state’s most expensive political race ever, and likely its last big-dollar federal election for the foreseeable future. by Tom Lutey 11.11.2024.
Montana's 2024 Candidates | 2024 MTFP Election Guide
Nov 4, 2024 · The 2024 general election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5. Search 2024 Montana candidates by name. This guide includes federal, state-level and legislative candidates. County commissioners and other local positions are excluded. Show only …
James Brown | State Auditor | 2024 Montana Election Guide
Nov 4, 2024 · James Brown. Democrat. John Repke. Brown is the outgoing president of the Montana Public Service Commission, the state’s elected utility board. Brown, 53 as of Election Day, is a graduate of Beaverhead County High School who served as a congressional aide in Washington, D.C. and ran a private legal practice prior to his election to the PSC.
Ryan Busse | Governor | 2024 Montana Election Guide - Montana …
Nov 4, 2024 · Busse, 54 as of Election Day, spent 25 years working as a salesman for the firearm company Kimber. He left his position as vice president of sales in 2020 and published a memoir, “Gunfight,” criticizing radicalization in the firearms industry the following year. Busse, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up on his family’s ranch in ...
The politics and philosophy behind the race for chief justice of the ...
Dec 14, 2023 · In a race with partisan politics just out of sight, longtime federal judge Jerry Lynch is taking on Broadwater County Attorney Cory Swanson for chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court. The entrance to the Montana Supreme Court photographed Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Credit: Samuel Wilson / Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
Who was Tim Sheehy before he started running for Senate?
Dec 4, 2023 · Before Tim Sheehy was the frontrunner in Montana’s 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, the ex-Navy SEAL, aerial firefighter, millionaire business owner, part-time rancher and occasional political donor was a 2004 graduate of a Minneapolis-St. Paul area private high school who grew up in a lake house outside Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
Susie Hedalen | Superintendent of Public Instruction | 2024 …
Nov 4, 2024 · General election nominees were selected via the June 4, 2024, primary election. Republican. Susie Hedalen. Democrat. Shannon O'Brien. Hedalen, 40 as of Election Day, has worked at numerous levels of Montana’s K-12 school system over the past few decades, from teaching in classrooms to serving as vice-chair of the state’s Board of Public ...
Dan Wilson | 2024 Montana Free Press Election Guide
Nov 4, 2024 · Dan Wilson. Wilson, 60 as of Election Day, has been a Flathead County state district court judge since 2017, a position he took following several years as a county justice of the peace. “Judges at all levels of our justice system should be able to consider and understand the viewpoints of all parties to a case,” Wilson told MTFP.
Who’s running for office in Montana’s 2024 election
Apr 15, 2024 · Incumbent Gov. Greg Gianforte is a Republican in a state that supported Donald Trump over Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election by almost 17 points. Republicans swept every state office in 2020, won a legislative supermajority in 2022, and will look to hold ground — including the governorship — in 2024.
John Driscoll | 2024 Montana Free Press Election Guide
Nov 4, 2024 · Active candidates for U.S. House District 2 (East) General election nominees were selected via the June 4, 2024, primary election. Republican. Troy Downing. Democrat. John Driscoll. Driscoll, 78 as of Election Day, is a Helena resident who has previously served as a state legislator, public service commissioner and Montana National Guard officer.