Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen is wasting no time in her campaign to be Montana’s next Secretary of State.
Congressional aides say the special House committee investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, will issue subpoenas for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal emails.
On Monday, Montana Political Practices Commissioner Jonathan Motl dismissed an allegation from Montana State Senator Jeff Essman. Essman had claimed that Secretary of State Linda McCulloch had improperly used her office and staff to support a voter registration initiative that was on the ballot.
The Montana Secretary of State’s office has been working since spring to create an online business toolkit to speed up the business license application and renewal process. The new system is designed to help business owners navigate the labyrinth of necessary state documents.
Montana Republicans are working to close their primary to help prevent crossover democrats from influencing their elections, but current Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch, a Democrat, thinks things should stay the way they are.
Despite clearance by the Secretary of State's office to be on the ballot in 2014, the movement to legalize marijuana in Montana has decided to wait until the 2016 elections to try to change the state's laws.