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The Montana Standard - Butte, Montana USA
By the Standard State Bureau - 06/27/2006

HELENA — Delegates to the Montana AFL-CIO last weekend endorsed Democrats Jon Tester and Monica Lindeen for the U.S. Senate and House respectively, along with a host of other candidates, mostly Democrats.

Meeting in Great Falls for the AFL-CIO’s 50th annual convention, delegates also backed four candidates who are unopposed for re-election: Supreme Court justices Jim Rice and John Warner, Supreme Court Clerk Ed Smith and Public Service Commissioner Greg Jergeson.

“These candidates are serious about working to protect Montana’s working families,” said Jim McGarvey, executive secretary of the Montana AFL-CIO. “The congressional and legislative candidates we’ve endorsed want to promote a healthy, growing economy based on good wages, decent health insurance for all families and careful, sustained development of the state’s natural resources.” The AFL-CIO took no stand on the contested PSC District 5 race between Democrat Ken Toole and Republican Mike Taylor.

In legislative races, the AFL-CIO endorsed 90 candidates, 87 of whom were Democrats. The lone Republicans backed were Reps. Wayne Stahl of Saco, Alan Olson of Roundup and Sen. Dave Lewis of Helena.

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