Keep a true conservative representing Ravalli Co.

by Rick Graetz Missoula

Ravalli County has continually sent true conservatives to the Montana legislature, people who represented their interests and values. David Bedey has been one of them in his four terms in the Montana House. Now, he is running for the Montana Senate in District 43, the Hamilton area and south.

That tradition is endangered and under attack as outside dark money has been attempting to hijack the Montana Republican Party. Now, authentic Republicans who have gone to Helena to work with all factions to get the job done are getting primaried by radicals who want to ensure every member answers to the party bosses rather than the people who elect them. There is a growing movement to evolve the Republican Party into an extremist organization, out of touch with ordinary Montanans.

Folks in the Upper Bitterroot have a chance this June to keep this from happening by sending Representative David Bedey back to Helena to represent their values, this time as a Montana State Senator.

He is firmly committed to restoring the Montana Legislature to a civil organization and ridding it of the toxic environment that has turned neighbors against one another over certain issues. Finding common ground was once a hallmark of Montana legislative sessions, and as a result, things got done, and all Montanans benefited.

It was people like David Bedey who, in the last session, worked for that common ground that accomplished things and prevented some radical policies from being adopted that would have been an embarrassment to the citizens of Ravalli County and the state as a whole.

Also noteworthy is that Bedey believes state legislators play a major role in preserving the principles embodied in the constitutions of the United States and the state of Montana. And believes that these so-called “patriots” are agitating for a second American revolution—a civil war. They have given up on America. He refuses to join them.

He is also an active supporter of protecting public lands, keeping them in public ownership, and ensuring Montanans have the right to access them as part of Montana’s economy and quality of life.