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The Montana Plan - Transparent Election Initiative
The Transparent Election Initiative is committed to ending the influence of corporate and dark money in our politics through the groundbreaking The Montana Plan. We believe that elections should be decided by voters, not by the size of corporate checkbooks.
Our approach leverages each state's authority to define corporate powers, creating a pathway to campaign finance reform that doesn't rely on restricting speech but instead focuses on not granting political spending powers to corporations in the first place. Citizens United held that corporations with full political spending powers have First Amendment rights. But what if corporations simply don't have those powers in the first place? States have always had the authority to define what powers corporations possess. By redefining corporate charters to exclude political spending powers, we don't restrict speech—we simply don't grant the power to spend politically.
Judges should be elected based on their record and qualifications, not their political party. Montanans have been electing judges in non-partisan elections since 1935.
This ballot measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the party. What does this initiative Do? This initiative defends Montana’s long tradition of nonpartisan courts. Montana has been electing judges via nonpartisan elections since 1935. This measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the political party.
Why Now? Politicians in Helena are attempting to make judicial elections partisan. It’s time to secure our courts from the threat of political control. This measure helps ensure that judges are accountable to the citizens of Montana, not politicians, party bosses, or political donors.
The costs of health care and food top the list of affordability challenges facing Montanans, according to a Montana Free Press-Eagleton poll conducted this winter.
According to the poll, younger Montanans also have affordability challenges around housing and education. More than half of respondents 36 and younger, for example, said rent and mortgage costs pose at least some difficulty for them — compared to only 9% of respondents 65 and older. A majority of all respondents, 52%, cited health care as an expense that poses at least some difficulty. Nearly a quarter, 23%, called it a “very difficult” thing for them to afford. Food costs ranked second, with 48% reporting at least some difficulty affording groceries and other food-related expenses. While housing costs have been a major point of public discussion around Montana’s cost of living in recent years, respondents rated them as a lower concern compared to other areas.
