Governor Bullock

On Thursday Senator Sales and I talked about the various bills that Gov. Bullock vetoed this session and the reason Sen. Sales voted the way he did.

We had great open lines with Senator Sales today. It started with the conversation on Bullock's 71 vetoes. We talked about why have a $300 million state surplus? Concealed carry laws. Income taxes and summer fires.

Governor Bullock still has a chance to call a special session to get Medicaid expansion through in Montana. But a recent study out of Oregon shows that it will not help, not even a little.

The bill would have made it illegal for Montana authorities to enforce any unconstitutional federal gun bans or restrictions, but was it merely an act of political theater?

House Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Claims committees got a rundown of what Governor Bullocks' new budget looks like.This is what Governor Bullock expects: In order to accomplish this, the Governor-Elect requests in the strongest possible terms that the Legislature follows his lead and use the following principles as it constructs a budget for his consideration: 1...