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Stacy Rye writes, "Many independents and Republicans are looking for a different path and are not going to vote for Bankhead. They might consider Bodnar."

Precinct members write, "The executive board decided unilaterally on July 1st that suing the GOP party over its new bylaws was in everyone’s interest and by extension enlisted the entire committee as plaintiffs."

Erin Foley writes, "The Montana AFL-CIO encourages union members, their families, and all working Montanans to support Seth Bodnar’s campaign for the United States Senate."

Idahoans United for Women and Families collected more than 110,000 signatures for ballot initiative that would also protect contraceptives, IVF access.

Jeff Mangan writes, "The Montana Plan is not complicated. Corporations cannot spend money to support or oppose candidates or ballot issues. Only individuals can. That's the whole measure."

A large veteran-led organization on Wednesday placed its support behind a Montana ballot initiative that would end corporate and dark-money spending in the state's elections.

Justices sided with Republican campaign committees in a decision that allows political parties to spend unlimited amounts while coordinating directly with candidates.

Doug James writes, "Seth Bodnar offers something new. A fresh perspective. Someone committed to serving the people of Montana and not the political bosses in Washington."

Daniel Carlino writes, "Montana Conservation Voters’ endorsement of Seth Bodnar for U.S. Senate should raise serious questions about whose interests the organization actually serves."

I-194, also called “the Montana Plan,” attempts to go around the federal Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations, unions and other “artificial persons” to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections.