Bullock is scheduled to visit Washington, D.C. in August for a closed-door campaign fundraiser co-hosted a lobbyist whose clients contributed corporate cash to dark money groups.
Ballot Initiatives
Barriers to the ballot: How advocates plan to take recreational marijuana to Montana voters
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Groups are organizing to legalize recreational marijuana in Montana. What stands in their way?
MT Lowdown Podcast
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 31: Secretary of state candidate Scott Sales
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Montana Senate President Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, talks about his 16 years in the Legislature and his candidacy for secretary of state.
Steve Bullock
Bullock makes his pitch in Iowa
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Gov. Steve Bullock, a presumptive long shot in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, makes his case at the Iowa State Fair.
2020 Elections
Stapleton acknowledges new voter registration system won’t be ready for 2020
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Responding to concerns from county clerks about rushing to replace Montana’s voter registration system before the 2020 presidential election, Montana’s top election administrator acknowledged in a July letter that 2021 is a more realistic goal for the upgrade.
MT Lowdown Podcast
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 30: OPI candidate Melissa Romano talks school choice, early education
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Democratic candidate for superintendent of public instruction Melissa Romano discusses school choice, modern teaching tools, civics and media literacy, teacher retention and mental health, and more.
Dark Money
Bullock notches a win against IRS in dark money lawsuit
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Judge says IRS neglected public input procedure in nonprofit donor disclosure case.
MT Lowdown Podcast
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 28: OPI chief Elsie Arntzen talks school funding, student success
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Superintendent of Public Instruction discusses concerns over lead in public school drinking water, Title 1 funding, school choice, and Trump’s rollback of key provisions of Obama’s Every Student Succeeds Act.
MT Lowdown Podcast
MT Lowdown Podcast – Episode 27: Montana Democrats test 2020 messages at statewide convention
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Journalist Alex Sakariassen and MTPR’s Corin Cates-Carney discuss the Montana Democratic Party’s effort to kickstart its 2020 campaign messaging.
