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15 August 2013

Democrat Dirk Adams breaks logjam, announces for U.S. Senate

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At last, at long, long, last, a Democrat stopped waiting to see what Steve Daines will do and announced he’s seeking his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate.

He’s 62-year-old Dirk Adams, a Wilsall rancher, businessman, Harvard trained lawyer, and life long Democrat. He’s never before sought political office.

Adams decision to run was made in July, reports Mike Dennison, and he’s assembling a campaign organization. Meanwhile, Adams isn’t saying much beyond “I’m running.”

Yet Adams declined to say yet why he’s running or how he plans to introduce himself to Montana voters.

Adams spoke from a cell phone while working his ranch Wednesday afternoon, and said he’d rather wait until later to explain and outline his candidacy.

On his www.adamsjobs.com website — the domain was registered with Network Solutions on 25 July — Adams presents three rough hewn planks:

  • More jobs should be “made in America;”

  • “Working” and “poor” should not be words that appear together;

  • Our founding fathers and today’s congress: major differences, strongly held views — one produced the constitution, the other gridlock. It’s time to get America working again.

That’s a start, but it’s just a start, and a slow start at that. Putting together a campaign website shouldn’t take more than 48 hours. In fact, if the candidate has a reasonably well thought out platform and rationale for running, it shouldn’t take more than 24 hours. There’s no contact information on his website yet, but you can reach Adams at dirkadams (at) mac.com.

“This may not go down as the smoothest U.S. Senate campaign rollout in Montana history,” the Montana Street Fighter blog dryly observed yesterday, but a rollout it is, and a welcome rollout, too. Perhaps now other Democrats who want the job, if any there are, will get off their duffs and immediately announce their candidacies.