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GOP makes massive campaign push in Havre

A dozen candidates stump at Blaine, Hill county Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner in Havre

A nearly standing-room only crowd listened Sunday to candidates in races, including in a nonpartisan race, from the state Legislature, statewide offices and both federal offices up for grabs in 2014.

The Duck Inn Olympic Room in Havre held close to 100 people, including the speakers, Sunday while party and elected officials and candidates spoke.

Along with keynote speaker U.S. Rep. Steve Daines and his Republican primary opponent in the race for U.S. Senate, state Rep. Champ Edmunds of Missoula, the crowd heard from five Republicans running for the House seat Daines is leaving, local legislative candidates as well as candidates for the Public Service Commission and state Supreme Court.

In the U.S. House race, state Sens. Elsie Arntzen of Billings and Matt Rosendale of Glendive joined former state Sens. Corey Stapleton of Billings and Ryan Zinke of Whitefish to address the crowd.

In the legislative side, unopposed candidates for re-election Rep. Roy Hollandsworth of Brady and Mike Lang of Malta joined new candidate Stephanie Hess of Havre in campaigning for the state House.

Incumbent Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Chinook, said redistricting, along with her spending time with her cancer-fighting fiancé, Shaun Guffin, led her to decide not to run for re-election this year. She now is in the same district as Lang.

A candidate in the single contested legislative election in this region also spoke to the crowd. Rep. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, has filed as a candidate in the Senate district that includes Havre and western Hill County, Liberty and Chouteau counties and a corner of Cascade County.

That includes the Havre district for which Hess is a candidate and the massive House district in which Hollandsworth is running.

Hansen faces Sen. Greg Jergeson, D-Havre, in the Senate race.

Two statewide candidates also addressed the crowd.

Supreme Court Justice Jim Rice cited his conservative, sticking-to-the-law rulings while on the Supreme Court while talking about his candidacy in that nonpartisan race.

Republican Public Service Commissioner Travis Kavulla also addressed the crowd and joined the other candidates in asking for the support of local voters.

 
 

Reader Comments(4)

bigspenders writes:

You surley jest when you try to lead us to believe we now owe less with Obama than when we had Bush don't you Medtran? You really have your head in the sand. Time for both parties to end deficiet spending

Massive writes:

I don't know what kind of massive push they need to do. The local GOP already holds all the offices that go to Helena while the dems fight amoung themselves. In addition I noticed that they must not believe in the war on women as all local candidates are women

hhs1966 writes:

Medtran, I see your point. We should revise the tax code and have a flat tax or some variation. The reason is that Congress likes to reward and punish folks with the power of the tax. Your remark that the deficit is going down lasts thru 2015 then sharply rises after this. We need statesman that will tell us no once is a while, like a good parent. We can blame the politicians and should, but they are a reflection of our selves. We need to be better informed and educated, or we are history.

medtran writes:

I suppose they talked about increasing debt (even though the deficit is going down under President Obama), repeal and replace ACA, too much regulation, like we need disasters that happened in NC, MI, AR, oil spill in Gulf Coast, or maybe they spoke about reducing so called entitlement reform. SS is paid into by taxpayers from their paychecks. Why not stop the real entitlements to oil companies, big Pharma, big farm subsidies, decrease the military complex spending.

 
 
 
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