One of the Legislature’s most powerful members could be replaced on the general election ballot, against his will, by his longtime friend after a Monday night vote.
Members of the Montana Republican Party on Monday nominated Ted Kronebusch as a replacement candidate for Senate District 9, even as a lawsuit filed by current candidate Rep. Llew Jones to stay on the ballot is ongoing. Kronebusch is chairman of the Pondera County Republican Central Committee and a close friend of Jones for decades. […]
Two Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit Friday over a term limit decision made by Attorney General Austin Knudsen this week that would remove them from the ballot in November. The legal action comes as the state Republican Party is preparing to replace the candidates on the ballot, barring a judge’s intervention. Montana lawmakers are limited to […]
Two weeks after a district court judge held a hearing on whether new Montana Republican Party bylaws are unconstitutional, a group of 67 individual Republicans, plus representatives of three county GOP central committees, filed a brief supporting the lawsuit. In an amicus curiae brief, the group, collectively known as “Montana Grass Roots Republicans,” argues that […]
CARLY GRAF and SEABORN LARSON
Montana State News Bureau
Updated
Rep. Llew Jones, a key figure in the Republican group that’s led bipartisan coalitions through successful Legislatures, outlasted the Montana GOP’s most ardent attempt yet to dethrone him.
