Tobacco and pharmaceutical companies and lobbyists help fund the Republican State Central Committee, which recently sent a mailer promoting Dan Wilson for the Montana Supreme Court.
Supreme Court elections are intended to be non-partisan according to Montana law. Instead, this lobbyist-funded group ignores the law and the Montana Constitution.
If the Central Committee is going to mail such a political piece, should they get their facts straight? Their candidate was elected District Judge and began serving in 2017. The mailer says he has served 12 years – that’s untrue because he actually served 7.5 years – as Flathead County District Judge.
When they carelessly misrepresent a fact so easily verifiable as the length of time he has been a district court judge, it is not surprising that the claims they make about his opponent are equally unreliable and false.
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His opponent has more than 20 years of experience as a Montana District Court Judge. Judge Katherine Bidegaray supports and defends the Montana Constitution. She has been elected four times to serve as District Judge for Dawson, McCone, Prairie, Richland and Wibaux counties.
I am supporting Judge Bidegaray based on her experience and commitment to the best state Constitution in the country.
