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Kalispell Chamber Backs Ballot Issue to Keep Courts Nonpartisan
In the release, Lorraine Clarno, the chamber’s president, cited small businesses’ need for “fair, impartial, and consistent rulings” as part of the onus for the chamber jumping into the fray on yet another measure being put to voters this November.
“Business owners depend on the consistent application of the law so they can operate in a predictable environment that helps them create jobs and keep costs down,” Clarno said. “We need to keep politics out of our courts so our businesses can continue to contribute to the economic prosperity and sustainability of our community.” Constitutional Initiative 132 (CI-132), the ballot measure the chamber is backing, states simply: “CI-132 amends the Montana Constitution to require that judicial elections remain nonpartisan.” CI-132 qualified for the ballot after beating back a rewrite from the attorney general in December and collecting more than 100,000 signatures. The efforts to maintain the state’s nonpartisan judicial elections come on the heels of a legislative session where lawmakers defeated several attempts to attach partisan identifiers to judges’ names on the ballot, in part because of GOP concerns about justices having a liberal bias.
Cost of Living Leads Montana Voter Concerns With a midterm election on the horizon, Montana voters say kitchen-table issues such as the cost of living and the economy will influence their ballot choices most, according to a Montana Free Press-Rutgers Eagleton Poll.
Living expenses were identified by 80% of voters as very important in determining whom to vote for, making the cost of living the most widely shared priority among more than 800 voters randomly selected from Montana’s registered voter file. Jobs and the economy were the second-most widely shared concern among voters, with 69% saying the subject will help determine their vote. Taxes and healthcare expenses tied for the third-largest share of voters rating an issue very important, with 60% saying each would be very important in determining their vote. Cost of living, jobs and the economy have consistently ranked among voters’ most important issues in elections so far this decade, while other top issues have waned, said Jeremy Johnson, head of the political science department at Carroll College. Terrorism, a top issue for voters in the decade following Sept. 11, 2001, has faded.
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