Non-GOP candidates furious over being excluded from Montana weekly newspapers' coverage
Source: Missoulian
When Mark Sheets opened up the Oct. 31 edition of the Clark Fork Valley Press – the last one to come out before the election – he was surprised to find published candidate questionnaires in the weekly newspaper.
Surprised, he says, because he was a candidate for Senate District 7, and says he never received a questionnaire from the newspaper.
Sheets, a Democrat, noticed there were no answers published from the Libertarian candidate in SD 7, John Marshall, either – only ones from Republican Jennifer Fielder.
On closer examination, Sheets says the same held true in the Mineral Independent – like the Valley Press, owned by Hagadone Newspapers – and the House District 13 and 14 races. Again, only Republican candidates had their answers published.
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