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The Helena Independent Record is endorsing Governor Schweitzer for another term:
When Schweitzer was elected governor four years ago, we knew we were in for quite a ride. As it turns out, it’s been a pretty good ride, worth another four years of the same.
The Billings Gazette sensibly endorses a great candidate for Superintendent of Public [...]
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It’s too bad that wit is wasted on people like Jake Eaton. Judge Donald Malloy, today:
A Hobbesian nightmare!
Determined to prevent the Hobbesian nightmare sure to ensue if voters’ mailing addresses do not match their residential addresses, Eaton employed an auditor to pore over the United States Postal Service’s change of address registry, and to [...]
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Of course, they didn’t offer an apology. Instead, it was the media’s fault:
Eaton wrote that the party launched the challenges in “good faith,” but media reports have since suggested the challenges were an effort to suppress voter turnout.
I’m quite certain it didn’t have anything to do with a recently filed lawsuit that might have required [...]
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Initially, I was angry with Jake Eaton and the Montana Republican Party in theory. It was greatly upsetting to learn that the Republican Party in Montana had so little respect for voters that it would actively try to remove them from the rolls, rather than educate them. Admittedly, it would be challenging to educate voters [...]
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I would ask Mr. Eaton if the Montana Republican Party’s attempted purge of voting rolls included every Montanan with an address change not reflected in their outdated database. Is it possible that some voters were not challenged?
After all, Mr. Eaton did say the following on September 30:
Republicans rely on "microtargeting," Eaton said, a strategy developed [...]
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