How the West Was Won
Is Montana Senate candidate Jon Tester the new face of the Democratic party?
by Matthew Continetti
10/30/2006, Volume 012, Issue 07

 

Billings, Montana
Last year, Jon Tester and his wife Sharla went to Washington. It was early May, around Mother's Day, and Tester was considering a run for the U.S. Senate. The third term of Montana's Republican junior senator, Conrad Burns, was drawing to a close, and Burns looked vulnerable. Read More

 
Jon Tester addresses the delegates at the Montana State Council of Professional Fire Fighters 17th Biennial  Convention  held in Helena, Montana July 11th and 12th 2006.  Listen  to his speech here .   Acting on a  motion n from  the floor, delegate unanimously endorse Jon Tester for US Senate.  To view  the press release click here
Citing “Real Change for Montana” Clark says, “Montana Needs a Leader Like Jon Tester”

General Wes Clark endorsed the candidacy of Jon Tester for Senate in Montana. Tester, a third-generation farmer and President of the Montana Senate is challenging Republican incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns this November.

General Clark said, “Today American families face many difficult challenges at home and abroad. There has never been a time when foreign affairs were as closely linked to the daily lives of Montanans as they are now. We are fighting the causes of terrorism that threaten our homes and we must prepare for a changing global economy that demands that America train our people to compete for the highest paying jobs. Read  more

 
Raise Montana is an effort to place and pass an initiative on the November 2006 ballot to raise Montana’s minimum wage and to ensure future increases by providing for annual cost of living adjustments. Visit www.raisemontana.org for more information

2006 Montana AFL-CIO Candidate Endorsements.  Click Here to view endorsements.

 

Montana Fire Chiefs Association

Legislative  Proposals

 
The  following are eight Legislative proposals from the Montana Fire Chiefs  Association.

  1. LC2000    HJR 10 PROPOSED BILL #1 A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act generally revising laws governing the department of justice's fire prevention and  investigation section and laws referencing and governing local governmental fire agencies; Read More.

  2. LC2001     HJR 10 PROPOSED BILL #2   Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act allowing the department of natural resources and conservation and a board of county commissioners to restrict activity on wildland areas where there exists a high fire hazard; Read More.

  3. LC2002     HJR 10 PROPOSED BILL #3 A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act generally revising wildfire protection laws; establishing a state fire policy; providing definitions for "wildfire", "wildfire season", and "wildland"; Read More

  4. LC2003     HJR 10 PROPOSED BILL #4 A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act generally revising local government fire protection laws; changing those who may petition for creation, annexation, division, and dissolution of rural fire districts from freeholders to registered voters residing in the area and changing the percentage of petitioners required from 50% to 40%; allowing cities and towns to be included in a rural fire district upon approval of the city or town council and requiring appropriate notice procedures if that occurs; Read More

  5. LC2004     HJR 10 PROPOSED BILL #5 A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act revising laws governing mutual aid agreements for protection against natural disasters and other incidents and emergencies; Read More

  6. LC2005     HJR 10 PROPOSED BILL #6 A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act exempting department of natural resources and conservation fire suppression activities from review under the Montana environmental policy act." Read More

  7. LC4000     A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act requiring growth policies to consider fire and wildland fire; including fire and wildland fire among the natural hazards that subdivision regulations must reasonably address; Read More

  8. LC4003     A Bill for an Act entitled: "An Act prescribing the authority and duties of governmental fire agency fire chiefs; and repealing sections 7-33-2313 and 7-33-4104, MCA." Read More

Offical website of the Montana State Council of Professional Fire Fighters, IAFF, AFL-CIO-CLC