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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">overwrote</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see frontline notes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/supreme-court-measure-off-ballot-corporate-speech-measure-stays-on/article_5df761ff-fbc9-577c-8387-2d42cc0f1192.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As for I-166, the court decided, in a 6-1 vote, decided to allow it to remain on the ballot. McGrath, Cotter, Rice, Wheat, Morris and Baker were in the majority, while Nelson dissented.[Jim Nelson ex-scotus in Dark $ doc, good guy]</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>I-166 is a nonbinding attempt to build support for a federal constitutional amendment to override the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which removed barriers to allow corporations and unions to spend unrestricted money in political campaigns.</b></font></p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region " style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Montanans Opposed to I-166, and state Sen. Dave Lewis, R-Helena, and businessman Phil Lilleberg, of Billings, asked the court to strike I-166 from the ballot, calling it “a sham.” They contended that I-166 isn’t legally sufficient to appear on the ballot and the ballot statements are insufficient.</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The court majority said the attorney general’s review is limited by law to determining whether the petition complies with statutory and constitutional requirements “governing submission of the proposed issue to the electors” but doesn’t include consideration of the “substantive legality of the issue, if approved by the voters.”</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In his dissent, Nelson said, aside from the “fatal problem plaguing I-166, this initiative is, at bottom, simply a feel-good exercise exhibiting contempt for the federal government and, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In response, C.B. Pearson, treasurer of Stand with Montanans, the group sponsoring I-166, said:</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This frivolous lawsuit was nothing more than corporate hired guns trying to deny the people of Montana a chance to vote on a citizen initiative, one that clearly states corporations aren’t people and money is not speech. Thankfully, the Montana Supreme Court recognized that this lawsuit was a cynical attempt by opponents to block a vote on one of the most important issues of our time.”</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>James Brown, the Helena attorney for those challenging I-166,</b> said, “Justice Nelson gets it right again. Montana law clearly requires the attorney general to determine if a ballot initiative is legally sufficient to be presented to the voters, and that includes whether the content of the ballot initiative is constitutional.”</font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He said his clients will file a lawsuit in District Court soon challenging the substance of I-166.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.thunderdomelaw.com/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> James Brown Law Office, PLLC</span><br style="line-height: 24px;" /><span style="line-height: 24px;">30 South Ewing Street, Suite 100</span><br style="line-height: 24px;" /><span style="line-height: 24px;">Helena, MT 59601</span><br style="line-height: 24px;" /><br style="line-height: 24px;" /><span style="line-height: 24px;">Phone: 406.449.7444</span><br style="line-height: 24px;" /><span style="line-height: 24px;">Fax: 406.443.2478</span></font></div><div><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><div class="paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jim Brown has had extensive legislative experience on both the state and national level. He was a <b>Legislative Correspondent for Montana Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT),</b> a Legislative Assistant for Nebraska Senator Chuck<b> Hagel (R-NE), a</b>nd Senior Legislative Policy Adviser for Illinois Congresswoman <b>Judy Biggert (R-IL)</b> in Washington D.C. from 1995-2001. He worked on the issues of health care, human services, immigration, education, retirement, labor, arts, the FDA, FEMA, and NIH/disease research. Jim also staffed the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, the <b>Senate Republican Health Care Quality Task Force,</b> the House Committee on Government Reform, the House Women's and Results' Caucuses, and the House Speaker's Working Group for a <b>Drug Free America.</b> He even drafted and introduced legislation, including a section of the "<b>No Child Left Behind Act</b>," report language, legislative briefs and amendments, as well as preparing floor statements, talking points, committee questions, memoranda, and legislative briefs. Needless to say, it was a full and unforgettable experience on Capitol Hill.
</font></div><div><div class="wsite-multicol" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;"><div class="wsite-multicol-table-wrap" style="margin: 0px -15px;"><table class="wsite-multicol-table" style="position: relative; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; width: 804px; margin: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;"><tbody class="wsite-multicol-tbody"><tr class="wsite-multicol-tr"><td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 0px 15px; margin: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; width: 372px;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.3em 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lobbying Experience</font></strong></h2><div class="paragraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jim has made use of his extensive legislative experiences by lobbying on behalf of a variety of associations and organizations. These include
</font><ul style="line-height: 1.5; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; margin: 5px 0px !important; padding-left: 2.3em !important; list-style-position: outside !important;"><li style="margin: 3px 0px 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px !important; list-style: disc outside !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Abolition Coalition OF?</span>
</font></li><li style="margin: 3px 0px 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px !important; list-style: disc outside !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Montana Independent Bankers Association
</font></li><li style="margin: 3px 0px 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px !important; list-style: disc outside !important;"><span style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Montana Wool Growers Association</font></span></li><li style="margin: 3px 0px 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px !important; list-style: disc outside !important;"><span style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-</font></span></li></ul><div><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Brown has years of experience in federal and state courts as well as individual client representation. Jim holds a bachelors in Political Science and History from the University of Montana and an LLM in Taxation from the University of Washington. Upon graduation, Jim worked as a judicial clerk and staff attorney for <b>Chief Justice Gerry Alexander of the Washington State Supreme Court </b>from 2005-2006.</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Jim returned to Montana to work as an associate and senior attorney for <b>Doney Crowley Payne Bloomquist, P.C. from 2007-2012. There he practiced in areas of water law, </b>tax probates and estates, <b>government relations, political law, and environmental law and compliance. </b> Many of Jim's cases have been high-profile, and a number have been brought before the Montana Supreme Court.</font></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div><h1 class="page-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Montana Supreme Court Rejects I-166 Challenge</font></h1><div class="entry-meta" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted on</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="entry-date" style=""><a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/2012/08/" title="View Archives for August 2012" rel="bookmark" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-weight: bold;">August</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/2012/08/10/" title="View Archives for August 10 2012" rel="bookmark" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-weight: bold;">10</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/2012/" title="View Archives for 2012" rel="bookmark" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2012</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="meta-sep" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="author vcard" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="url fn n" href="http://freespeechforpeople.org/author/peter-schurman/" title="View all posts by Peter Schurman" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Schurman</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-content"><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Voters Will Still Have the Opportunity to Declare that Corporations Aren’t People and Money Isn’t Speech with November Vote</font></strong></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HELENA – The people of Montana won the right to vote on I-166 this November when in a 6 to 1 decision Montana’s Supreme Court rejected an attempt by opponents to remove it from the ballot.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This frivolous lawsuit was nothing more than corporate hired guns trying to deny the people of Montana a chance to vote on a citizen initiative, one that clearly states corporations aren’t people and money is not speech,” said C.B. Pearson, Campaign Treasurer, Stand with Montanans: Corporations Aren’t People – Ban Corporate Campaign Spending. “Thankfully, the Montana Supreme Court recognized that this lawsuit was a cynical attempt by opponents to block a vote on one of the most important issues of our time.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The suit was brought by a newly formed group called Montanans Opposed to I-166 as well as State Sen. Dave Lewis and Billings businessman and former Republican legislative candidate Phil Lilleberg, represented by Chris Gallus and James Brown.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2010, Mr. Gallus represented the<b> payday and car title lending industry </b>in two similar lawsuits filed to remove I-164 – an initiative to limit interest rates on these type of loans – from the ballot. Both of those lawsuits also failed.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Mr. Brown is an attorney for American Tradition Partnership</b>, the group that challenged the Montana Corrupt Practices Act, and is challenging other Montana campaign finance laws in an effort to eliminate contribution limits, disclosure requirements, and campaign finance reporting.</font></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“These secretive, large out-of-state corporate interests have contempt for Montana voters and our fair elections system,” said Pearson. “They don’t believe Montana voters should have a say in how our elections are funded and run, and they think big, unlimited, secret money should be allowed to buy our elections. They won’t say who is funding their campaign or this lawsuit.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit alleged that the ballot language and the initiative itself do not comply with Montana laws and, therefore, I-166 should not be allowed to appear on the November ballot. However, opponents declined to participate in the process that allows opponents to weigh in with the Attorney General during approval of a proposed initiative.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They had their chance to weigh-in during review process and while the petition was circulating but they decided not to participate in the process,” said Pearson. “The Montana Supreme Court saw this lawsuit for what it was – a well-funded effort to disenfranchise every Montana voter.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lawsuit brought by opponents was filed against the Montana Attorney General and the Montana Secretary of State. However,<b> Jon Motl, representing Stand with Montanans: Corporations Aren’t People – Ban Corporate Campaign Spending</b>, filed an amicus brief with the Court, defending against the challenge to I-166.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Montana can be proud of our unique and pure form of democracy, which affords every Montanan the right to direct democracy,” said Pearson. “The corporate interests may be able to buy politicians, especially in the post-Citizens United world, but they cannot buy the people of Montana. That is why they are so afraid of citizens’ initiatives like I-166, because the people’s use direct democracy undermines the control they have of our government.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I-166 qualified easily for the November ballot. Though Montana law requires 24,337 valid signatures as well as signatures from 5% of voters in 34 legislative districts, the petition to place I-166 on the ballot received 32,112 valid signatures and qualified in 61 of Montana’s 100 legislative districts.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More information is available at www.StandWithMontanans.org, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StandWithMontanans, on Twitter, @STANDwMONTANANS, and by calling (406) 356-NOV6 (6686). </font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="http://helenair.com/news/local/american-tradition-partnership-attorney-james-brown/image_99c41b4c-23a6-11e2-bd80-001a4bcf887a.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://helenair.com/news/local/american-tradition-partnership-attorney-james-brown/image_99c41b4c-23a6-11e2-bd80-001a4bcf887a.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mo<span style="line-height: 27px;">ntana campaign finance regulators have released the bank records of a secretive conservative group behind many candidate attack ads and challenges to the state's election laws.</span></font></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Judge Jeffrey Sherlock on Friday ordered the release of the American Tradition Partnership files collected by the state.[leaked? "stolen" crack house?]</font></p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region " style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The records include hundreds of pages of account transactions and copies of checks to consultants and vendors in Montana, Colorado and the Washington, D.C., area.</font></p></div><div id="video-ad-asset-container" class="p402_hide" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="video-responsive-ad video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-controls-disabled vjs-user-inactive vjs-waiting vjs-playing" id="video-ad-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding: 30px 0px 275.609px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-user-select: none; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="vjs-text-track-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 1em; left: 1em; right: 1em;"><div class="vjs-loading-spinner" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: 152.797px; left: 244.984px; line-height: 1; width: 1em; height: 1em; margin-left: -0.5em; margin-top: -0.5em; opacity: 0.75; animation: spin 1.5s linear infinite;"><div id="ima-ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; top: 0px; position: absolute; width: 490px; height: 306px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; width: 490px; height: 306px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></div></div></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group launched in 2008 as a tax-exempt social welfare organization named Western Tradition Partnership.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region " style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It took in $515,000 that October, weeks before the 2008 election. Days later, a total of $500,000 was transferred to the anti-union National Right to Work Committee.</font></font></font></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sherlock has promised to sanction the group for failing to produce records in a case where it is fighting allegations of illegal electioneering.</font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ads</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reporter RR, bought US sen seat; env of $ had </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">child molesters, certified to be true and acc, </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">last 4 days primary, lost by 24 votes; went to </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">showers in the dark" "issue advocacy" addy in </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gop; 31 min Helena ; livingston, bozeman, denver, </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lonmont sp ; her guys on hit list 537,ooo $; corp </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">some states reject magic words defense </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">denis u attaced us, so challenge law, corrupt </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Bopp:</b> $ is necess for pol /democ, lack of info; </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">maj of ppl do not know who sen is; </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lef; wesley prouse sp, robo mail campaign; </font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scotus said no evidence of a problem/cooperation</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>atp </b>wa dc penn ave ups PO box, in 6 states plus</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>mt sen race most expensive in state hist</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 b est, most in states</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 20px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A group of protesters <a href="http://www.kaj18.com/news/helena-protest-targets-american-tradition-partnership/#!prettyPhoto/0/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">rallied</a> against American Tradition Partnership in Helena, Montana, on Wednesday, a day after the airing of <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/big-sky-big-money" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Big Sky, Big Money</a>, </em>an investigation by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marketplace</em> that uncovered potentially illegal collusion between the nonprofit group and political candidates.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 20px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ATP, in a <a href="http://americantradition.org/?p=2830" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">statement</a> on its website, said such claims were “false,” calling the film and related articles an “unsubstantiated, well-coordinated attack” on the group and its work.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 20px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Waving signs and chanting “ATP, go back to D.C.,” Wednesday’s protesters marched to the office of<b> Jim Brown, ATP’s attorney</b>, in the city of Helena, who greeted them with a <a href="https://twitter.com/BoyceDan/status/263716103564451840/photo/1" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">tin of Halloween candy</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/BoyceDan/status/263716103564451840/photo/1">https://twitter.com/BoyceDan/status/263716103564451840/photo/1</a></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 20px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later that evening, someone broke into the Montana Commissioner on Political Practices (COPP) office, according to a <a href="http://helenair.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/political-practices-reports-apparent-break-in/article_9d91e38c-2444-11e2-88cf-001a4bcf887a.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">report</a> in the local <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Independent Record</em>. Nothing appeared to have been stolen.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 20px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The commissioner h</font></font></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>