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Speaking at the Montana Democrats’ Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner in Helena last night, keynote speaker Cecily Richards made a mistake Montana’s Democrats must be careful not to repeat:
He’s a great, great senator for the state of Montana, and we’ll work very hard to try to re-elect him in November.
She meant “return him to the Senate.” As an appointed, not an elected, Senator, he can’t be re-elected until he runs for a second term in 2020, assuming he wins in November. Richards can be forgiven the mistake. But if Walsh and his supporters make it, they’ll open themselves for a hard counterpunch.
Rep. Steve Daines can’t use “re-elect” either, unless he changes his mind and decides to run for the U.S. House again.
Flathead Memo will be a nonpartisan blower of an ear shattering whistle whenever “re-elect” is abused in 2014.