Amanda Curtis wins Montana Democratic nomination to U.S. Senate

[villager]

Source: The Missoulian

Montana Democrats on Saturday selected Amanda Curtis to represent their party in this fall's face for the state's open seat in the U.S. Senate.

Party members gathered in Helena for the nominating convention after Sen. John Walsh dropped out of the race following revelations that he plagiarized a research paper while earning his master's degree at the Army War College.

The convention is still in progress.

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Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/amanda-curtis-wins-montana-democratic-nomination-to-u-s-senate/article_d7da4810-2558-11e4-9265-0019bb2963f4.html

[bigdarryl]

1. The party seems to think this is the year of the woman

I don't know about that

[villager]

2. I'd like to hear from some Montanans what they think her prospects are

...and what she's been like in the State House of Reps...

[Dems to Win]

3. 34 year old math teacher, member of Montana House, strong labor roots

Sounds great. More info here http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Montana-Democrats-to-choose-new-Senate-candidate-5692755.php

Hope she WINS!

[villager]

4. Thanks for that link. I'm sure we all hope she wins!

[bigdarryl]

6. The stupid article comes right out the box and say she has no chance because the rethug has

1.7 million dollars to spend like that's a guarantee he will win.What about his ground game.If the teachers union with the help of the National Party help canvass and put in money on the ground anything can happen.

[dsc]

7. It isn't only the money

she represents a fraction of the state while her opponent represents the entire state, the state tilts heavily GOP for the Presidential, and she is likely to be outspent.

[BlueMTexpat]

9. Spot on. Absolutely! eom

[alp227]

5. links about Curtis:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Curtis

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ButteCurtis

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CurtisForLegislature

[BlueMTexpat]

10. Here's another:

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And here's more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/19/in-new-montana-nominee-democrats-ditch-red-state-pragmatism-for-a-gun-control-supporting-vlogger/

IMO, she is an exciting - and promising - candidate. I also believe that she can certainly beat a ninny like Daines.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Montanans associated with Democracy for America (DFA)

describe her as Montana's "Elizabeth Warren." DFA is beginning to ramp up financial support for her at the national level but haven't yet seen anything yet on the site itself about that. Having Howard Dean's group in her corner bodes well for her. Very well, in fact.

She's also getting some decent publicity from ABC news: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/08/amanda-curtis-is-a-rare-breed-of-montana-democrat/

Her campaign is just a few days old, but Curtis has lined up endorsements from two of Montana’s largest unions and Democracy for America, a national progressive group that wasn’t involved in Walsh’s re-election race.

“She’s refreshing, she’s a woman and she’s an educator,” Montana State University political scientist David Parker said. “She gets Democrats excited about voting.”

Jon Tester (D), Montana's other Senator (basically on the conservative side), has also strongly endorsed her. Frankly, liberal Montanans were never excited about Walsh.

The mere fact that TP conservatives really hate her, characterizing her as a "socialist," is likely to get a LOT more people out to vote for her than would have done for Walsh, about whom feelings were "meh." http://freebeacon.com/politics/montana-dems-replace-plagiarist-with-socialist-in-senate-race/

Having just returned from the state and as a born, raised and mostly educated in-state Montanan, I would not dismiss her candidacy too quickly. Montana is, after all, the state that sent Jeannette Rankin to the US Congress before women were even allowed to vote at the national level. MT is also the state of the wonderful Mike Mansfield, whom I had the privilege of knowing and to whom the adjective "maverick" applied in the most positive fashion. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/06/us/mike-mansfield-longtime-leader-of-senate-democrats-dies-at-98.html