WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: While Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney reaffirms his commitment to women's rights and launches "Women for Cooney", GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte's anti-women record is coming under attack. Over the past few weeks, Montanans have admonished Gianforte for missing more votes in Congress than 93% of his peers, including votes protecting health care and even providing necessary funding for the Centers for Disease more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release: Governor Steve Bullock and the Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced that over $1 million in grant funding has been awarded from the Montana Agriculture Adaptability Program (MTAAP). The grants are designed to provide relief to small and medium-sized food and agriculture businesses in response to the COVID-19 crisis. "Agriculture drives our economy in Montana, and the COVID-19 crisis has s more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release: Governor Steve Bullock announced an updated directive that permits safe visitation in nursing homes and assisted living facilities that are able to follow infection control protocols per guidance issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "I'd like to offer my thanks to the staff of residential facilities for older adults ac more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following statement regarding the death of a Montanan due to COVID-19, the state's 22nd death: "I am sad to hear of another Montanan lost to COVID-19 and I am holding their loved ones and community in my thoughts. "Each loss is a sobering reminder that this virus is still here and of the duty we all have. "We cannot be passive. "Each of us must take actions that mitigate the spread of this virus to protect our fellow Mon more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release: Governor Steve Bullock called for swift passage of the Montana Water Rights Protection Act to ratify the Montana and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact after the bill was heard in the US Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday. "I urge the Senate to get this bipartisan and equitable deal across the finish line to provide a path forward for all Montanans to gain certainty for their wat more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The Montana Democratic Party released a new video which holds Senator Steve Daines accountable for repeatedly voting to gut Montanans' health care and protections for those with pre-existing conditions. The video highlights Daines' complicity in the Republican lawsuit which would overturn the Affordable Care Act and eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the midst of a global pa more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The State Department designated four more Chinese news organizations as propaganda agents of the state. Several of the outlets that have been designated so far, including Xinhua and People's Daily, have covered Senator Steve Daines' numerous Congressional delegations to China, and the Chinese ambassador's visit to Montana - during which Daines was dubbed "China's ambassador in Congress." Daines gave an  more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Two years ago, Senator Steve Daines touted his anti-choice bona fides by tying his support for the Affordable Care Act repeal effort to defunding Planned Parenthood. Despite Planned Parenthood serving roughly 10,000 patients in Montana a year, Daines was dead-set on gutting funding for these clinics which provide life-saving care for Montanans. The deal breaker for Daines on supporting the bill wasn't  more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Has Tim Fox endorsed Greg Gianforte yet Click here to find out!: https://www.hastimfoxendorsedyet.com/ "If Greg Gianforte can't consolidate support within his own party, how does he expect to earn the support of all Montanans," said MDP Deputy Communications Director Matt Fidel. "The fact that Republican leaders like Tim Fox can't bring themselves to support Greg Gianforte for Governor should tell Mon more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Republican Attorneys General submit briefs in support of their Supreme Court case to strike down the Affordable Care Act this week. Yet, Senator Steve Daines has refused to denounce the ongoing partisan lawsuit and remains steadfast in his commitment to gutting Montanans' health care. And although Daines won't denounce the latest Republican attempt to kill the ACA, he's made his views on the landmark l more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 26 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Republican Attorneys General submitted briefs in support of their Supreme Court case to strike down the Affordable Care Act. If their effort succeeds, thousands of Montanans would get thrown off their health coverage in the midst of a calamitous global pandemic. Where is Senator Steve Daines? Remaining complicit as this anti-health care lawsuit advances, and doubling-down on his commitment to gutting Mo more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 25 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Senator Steve Daines voted to confirm Cory Wilson -- an outspoken opponent of the Affordable Care Act -- to the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He publicly called the ACA's passage "perverse" and "illegitimate" in 2014, and Wilson urged the Supreme Court to overturn the law entirely. With his vote to confirm Wilson, Daines continues his relentless assault on Montanans' health care -- all in  more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: In an interview with MTN's Mike Dennison, Senator Steve Daines attempted to rewrite history, casting himself as a bipartisan champion for Montanans and ignoring his past as "China's ambassador in Congress." Here's the truth: Daines: "I've been recognized as one of the most bipartisan, most effective senators" REALITY: During his time in the Senate, Steve Daines has voted with Mitch McConnell nearly 95 more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Following the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act in the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney called (literally) upon Rep. Greg Gianforte to co-sponsor the legislation in the House of Representatives. Greg Gianforte - Montana's lone representative in the U.S. House - has so far refused. Gianforte has vocally opposed full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (supported by 76 more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 26 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney - whose campaign recently launched Women for Cooney - has played a critical role in passing, defending, and strengthening Medicaid expansion in Montana. Meanwhile his opponent, Rep. Greg Gianforte, continues to stand idly by as thousands of Montanans' health care -- including that of more than 45,000 Montana women -- hangs in the balance while Republican Attorneys General advance a p more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: In a recent interview, newly elected president of the Montana Federation of Public Employees (MFPE) Amanda Curtis pulled no punches when describing the future of workers' rights and public education in Montana under a Gianforte/Juras administration. Curtis warned, "For the first time in Montana's history we have a governor's race that will determine whether or not this union actually exists... [Gianforte more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 25 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: On the heels of Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney's campaign for Governor launching Women for Cooney - a statewide group of prominent women elected officials and community leaders who support Mike Cooney's vision for creating and sustaining good-paying jobs with equal pay - Greg Gianforte's record of abandoning Montana women and families warrants a closer look. In this Congress, Gianforte missed more votes than 93% more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: In yet another election-year flip-flop, Senator Steve Daines is introducing a bill to increase the maximum fine for unauthorized aerial vehicles landing in designated wilderness areas. This announcement comes only two years after Daines requested to reopen old airstrips in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex -- a measure that critics said would have "dramatically" increased air traffic and "diminished"  more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 25 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: In the midst of an unprecedented public health and economic crisis, Republican candidate for attorney general Austin Knudsen continues to support the dangerous, partisan lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which protects 152,000 Montanans with pre-existing conditions from insurance companies denying medical care, and insures another 90,000 Montanans through Medicaid expansion -- a vital program th more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 26 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The Montana Democratic Party is taking a closer look at Maryland Matt's long history of opposing services for Montana's veterans. Today, we're looking at Rosendale's vote against creating a program that has helped hundreds of veterans and gold star families buy homes. The loan program was endorsed by the VFW, American Legion, and National Guard, but Maryland Matt still couldn't bring himself to do right more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 24 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Following the news that Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney's campaign for Governor is launching Women for Cooney - a statewide group of prominent women elected officials and community leaders who support Mike Cooney's vision to fight for all Montanans - it's worth examining his opponent's record of failing to show up for Montana women when it counts. In this Congress, Gianforte skipped more votes than 93% of his coll more PR

HELENA, Montana, June 27 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: While the Trump Administration filed a brief in support of the lawsuit to strike down the Affordable Care - and explicitly arguing for the elimination of pre-existing condition protections - Senator Steve Daines sought "political cover" for his record of pushing to sabotage the health care law by co-sponsoring the PROTECT Act - a sham Republican bill that "would do little to protect people with pre-exist more PR

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The Republican Governors Association issued the following news release: RGA Right Direction PAC, an organization supported by the Republican Governors Association (RGA), released a new website, MeetMikeCooney.com, exposing Montana Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Cooney as a liberal career politician with a record of tax-and-spend policies and ethics violations. The website hosts a video recounting Cooney's history an out-of-touch career politician whose decades i more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, June 25 -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: Melting of Arctic ice due to climate change has exposed more sea surface to an atmosphere with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide. Scientists have long suspected this trend would raise CO2 in Arctic Ocean water. Now University of Montana researcher Michael DeGrandpre and his patented sensors have helped an international team determine that, indeed, CO2 levels are rising in water across wide swaths o more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, June 24 -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: The University of Montana has renewed a memorandum of understanding with the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environmental Research in Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom in the eastern Himalayas known for its monasteries, fortresses and dramatic landscapes. UWICER is housed in Bhutan's Ministry of Agriculture and Forests Department of Forest and Parks Service and is the country's premier institute more PR

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, June 26 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on June 23: Wyoming has submitted its Reply Brief to the United States Supreme Court in its challenge to Washington State's unconstitutional discrimination against a proposed coal export terminal. The terminal would provide access to new markets for Wyoming and Montana coal. In the brief, Wyoming and Montana reject the State of Washington's arguments and stand united in their belief that Washington's  more PR