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Campaigning is underway in the Republican primary for Senate District 4 (map) in Kalispell. Former Kalispell mayor Tammi Fisher is running ads (screenshots below) on Facebook, asking viewers to hit the “like” button, and providing a link to her campaign website.
One like is from Scott Davis, a leader of the Kalispell Quiet Skies campaign that last November successfully rolled back a proposed expansion of the Kalispell City Airport. Fisher also opposed expansion.
Fisher’s primary opponent is 4-term, and termed-out, state representative Mark Blasdel (old HD-10), current speaker of the house, and hard right opponent of expanding Medicaid in Montana. He may have a campaign website, but I haven’t been able to find it.
Ads starting in February suggest this will be a hard fought and expensive campaign between two skilled and ambitious politicians, with Blasdel considered more conservative, and by quite some margin, than Fisher.
SD-4 is one of seven key contested GOP primaries identified by Lee reporter Mike Dennison last month.
So far, no one has filed for the SD-4 Democratic primary.
