Category: Montana

Alleged Schweitzer Election Tampering

According to this report, Gov. Schweitzer may face a criminal investigation for comments he made regarding his involvement in the 2006 race for the Senate in Montana. The comments, which surfaced this week as an audio recording on the Internet, centered on the race between Democrat Jon Tester and Republican incumbent Conrad Burns. Tester’s narrow […]

Montana: “Thankless Task”

The Billings Gazette has this story on the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices. As Montana’s top campaign cop, Dennis Unsworth isn’t destined to make a lot of close friends among state politicians and political parties. That’s how it is, and that’s how it should be for Montana’s political-practices commissioner. Like his predecessors, Unsworth must make […]