Politics

Election results for Montana's big 2014 races for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The results are as follows after counting the first 52,000 or so votes: U.S. Senate Initial Results Steve Daines (R) 56.30% Amanda Curtis (D) 42 ... Read More ...

Today, October 15, Attorney Milt Datsopoulos accused Political Practices Commissioner Jonathan Motl of expanding Montana’s political Practices laws to include things that had not previously been violations. Motl says that this accusation is partly true, but that there is precedent.

Political Campaign Commissioner Jonathan Motl ruled yesterday that Missoula County Sheriff's candidate T.J. McDermott violated campaign rules by accepting in-kind donations and services from a local law firm without disclosing them.

The Montana Democratic Party chose Butte schoolteacher, and first-term state legislator Amanda Curtis on Saturday morning as their candidate for the U.S. Senate.

When asked directly, 'Did you knowingly plagiarize any author or any idea,' Walsh answered,'I did not try to deceive anybody at all.'

Former Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, Dan Cox is starting a class action lawsuit against the Montana Judicial Standards Commission.

As of 2:30 a.m. primary election results have Democrats Kirsten Pabst winning the Missoula County Attorney race, and Detective T.J. McDermott defeating the other two Democrats, Josh Clark and Bob Parcell in the race for sheriff.

Multiple conservative groups in Missoula are urging traditional republicans to vote for democratic candidates in the primary. "Local government is what affects people's day-to-day lives the most," saud Garrett Van Hoose from the Individual Liberty Restoration League...

Republicans in Missoula County may be considering switching ballots and voting in the democratic primary because so many local races have no republican candidates, but Republican Party Chairman and Missoula county resident Will Deschamps says republicans should keep to their own primary...

So-called "dark money" has benefited liberal and progressive causes by a factor of nearly 10 to one over conservative causes and candidates over the last two years.