18 March 2016

Where is the MT Democratic Party’s 2014 platform?

It’s not on the party’s redesigned, and dumbed down for mobile, website. Instead, there’s a draft platform with planks so general that some probably could be adopted by the Republican Party.

Also missing, the party’s rules.

Fortunately, the 2014 platform is cached on Google. So are the rules from 2011. And I have copies of the 2010, 2012, and 2014 platforms.

The platforms of the national parties are archived at various locations on the internet, such as the Presidency Project at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California.

I’m sure the Montana Democratic Party is not trying to hide its 2014 platform. Providing a link to it probably just slipped through the cracks when the party’s website was redesigned.