Gary Marbut, President
Montana Shooting Sports Association
Primary Election, 2016
Legislative Candidate Endorsements
Dear MSSA Members,
It has become much more complicated for anyone to become involved in
the process of selecting and recommending quality candidates for
public office. Given new laws, extensive new regulations
implementing various laws, court decisions, and new legal theories
about what is enforceable and needs enforcement, the path of conduct
that is safe from enforcement action has become very narrow and
twisting.
Therefore, I am being deliberately VERY careful about how I express
my preferences for candidates in the 2016 Primary Election.
First, this is a communication to MSSA members, a First
Amendment-protected exercise of Freedom of Association, Freedom of
Expression, and Freedom of the Press, also protected from government
regulation by various sections of Article II of the Montana
Constitution.
Second, this is a private and personal effort of mine, with no
support from any corporation.
Third, no funds are expended to send the email advising MSSA members
of this page or to post this page (beyond a deminimis
expenditure estimated on the order of 5/100ths of one cent [$.0005]
- see Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church of East Helena, Inc. v.
Unsworth.)
Fourth, no candidates endorsed here have solicited an endorsement or
promised anything in return for an endorsement. Conversely, I
have not asked anything specific of candidates in return for an
endorsement or promised anything to any endorsed candidates. I
have only evaluated the level of interest of candidates in issues of
interest to gun owners from the candidates' voting records, returned
candidate questionnaires, and other available information.
Fifth, no copyright is asserted over the material contained here and
anyone is welcome to accurately copy, reprint, repost, or recite any
part or all of the information contained here, including candidates
for public office, endorsed or not. Although this information
is intended primarily for MSSA members, it is considered to be in
the public domain upon posting.
The candidate evaluations contained here are made from information
available about candidates, including voting records for those who
have served in office, candidate questionnaires returned by
candidates, and other information available from various sources.
Candidates are evaluated solely upon how well they understand, how
strongly they feel about, and how fervently they support the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms. Only candidates with a primary
challenge are considered for the Primary Election, and there is not
a favored candidate in every Primary-challenged race. Some
Primary-challenged candidates may have equal opponents, or I may
have no voting record or returned candidate questionnaire from
either candidate in a Primary race.
The candidates who are featured here are selected because I have
solid information about them and in some cases none about their
opponent(s), and because the favored candidate is known to be a
strong and reliable advocate for our constitutionally-protected
Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
I strongly urge all MSSA members and other concerned gun owners to
favor and support these selected candidates who have a Primary
challenge. The Primary Election happens soon, in the first
week of June, and absentee ballots are going out now. Get
active. Seek out these candidates. Send them much-needed
money for their campaigns. Work for these candidates.
Spread the word to all of your gun-owning friends. Do it
immediately!
Here are the preferred candidates for the Montana Senate:
District Name
SD3 Keith Regier
SD7 Jennifer Fielder
SD10 J.C. Kantorowicz
SD15 Ryan Osmundson
SD18 Steve Hinebauch
SD26 Joshua Rich Kotter
SD28 Tom Richmond
SD36 Dale Stewart
SD38 Sam Kitzenberg
SD40 Carl Garcia
Here are the preferred candidates for the Montana House of
Representatives:
District Name
HD5 Chet Billi
HD10 Mark Ray Noland
HD11 Derek Skees
HD14 Charles Woolley
HD17 David Brownell
HD19 Randy Pinocci
HD20 Sheridan Buck
HD22 Lola Sheldon-Galloway
HD33 Casey Knudsen
HD35 Scott Staffanson
HD36 Alan Doane
HD37 Bill Harris
HD40 Barry Usher
HD44 Dale Mortensen
HD45 Daniel Zolnikov
HD68 Art Wittich
HD69 Phil Olson
HD71 Robert Wagner
HD72 Brooke Erb
HD80 Patrick N. Johnson
HD85 Theresa Manzella
HD92 Randy C. Vannoy
Gary Marbut, for the
Montana Shooting Sports Association Political Committee