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News

April 4, 2024 / News

Butte’s Pat Harrington, spouse of Con Con Delegate Dan Harrington, passes away

Apr 4, 2024 Pat Harrington June 11, 1942 – March 6, 2024 Pat Harrington passed away surrounded by her family...
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Convention Delegate Mae Nan Ellingson
November 25, 2023 / News

UM to Recognize Montana Constitutional Delegate with Honorary Degree

The University of Montana will recognize Constitutional Convention Delegate Mae Nan Ellingson with an honorary doctorate – the highest individual award recognized by the institution.
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Polling data
February 27, 2023 / News

Latest Polling Data

Above is some highlighted information about a public poll that includes a number of questions about the Montana Constitution … ...
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February 19, 2023 / News

Roger Wagner, 80, Montana ConCon Delegate from Nashua Passes

The world lost a beloved Montanan on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 when Roger Wagner of Nashua passed from congestive heart failure. He was a family man who loved celebrations and was dedicated to making his community a better place.
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February 15, 2023 / News

Bill to make nonpartisan races partisan draws opposition

Lewis and Clark County Justice of the Peace Mike Swingley told Montana Senate State Administration Committee that he cannot imagine what adding partisan politics to nonpartisan races would do to his job. He has had to avoid the pressure of his own mother, who once called to tell him to go easy on a man in jail because she knew the man’s mother.
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Opinion

Bob Brown
April 22, 2025 / Opinion

From Legislative Secrecy to Constitutional Sunlight

By Bob Brown, Published in The Daily Montanan on April 17, 2025 and in The Western News on April 22,...
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MT Constitutional Convention Floor
March 25, 2025 / Opinion

Guest Column: Con Con Delegates Oppose Partisan Judges

March 18, 2025: A Guest Column by Six Living Delegates to the Montana Constitutional Convention Mae Nan Ellingson, Gene Harbaugh,...
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Emily Cross
March 10, 2025 / Opinion

Montana’s 1972 Con-Con Delegates: Citizens, not Copper Kings

By Emily Cross, Published in the Missoulian on March 8, 2025 Fifty-three years ago, Montana underwent a remarkable transformation that...
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Governor Marc Racicot
February 13, 2025 / Opinion

Invasion of the Judicial Branch

By Marc Racicot, published in the Daily Inter Lake on February 13, 2025.  Before entering upon the duties of his...
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February 8, 2025 / Opinion

Getting to Know the Montana Constitution

By Susan Byorth Fox, published in the Missoulian on February 8, 2025 I am honored to chair Friends of the...
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