Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill will again be coming to the Bitterroot, (He was just here a few weeks ago to speak with commissioners) this time for a fundraiser in Stevensville.
The event is hosted by Fred Thomas, a Republican who is running for Sen. Jim Shockley’s vacated seat in the Montana Senate. Thomas is the former Senate Majority Leader (1996-2004) who most famously introduced the energy deregulation bill, passed in 1997.
Hill’s fundraiser is Friday, Jan. 27 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Thomas’ home in Stevensville – 1004 S. Burnt Fork Road.
No word in the announcement if Hill’s recently announced running mate Sen. Jon Sonju will be in attendance as well.
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Jason Hughes
March 4, 2012 at 1:15 am
I wonder why Rick Hill didn’t bother to grace the county with his presence at the Conservatives United forum on Feb. 23. He can’t stand up to the scrutiny of his record. We need to support one of the candidates that are relative newcomers to politics. Hill has way way too much baggage. Hill has had one of his illicit affairs made public, you do understand that if he were to win the Republican nomination for governor, that the Democratic machine will pay those other gals to come forward, right? Hill is an immoral, unethical man who should be run out of our state and not promoted within it. Hill likes to claim that he “fixed” Work Comp. the only thing he did was create a public/private partnership that makes him wealthy while the state fund goes flat broke. I hope everyone knows that Hill still makes about a quarter of million dollars every year from blue cross and blue shield. Every work comp claim goes through blue cross/blue shield exactly as he planned. We are paying this leech to suck our state dry! Now he wants to be governor?