More than a quarter of Montana's lawmakers didn't grow up under the Big Sky, a Gazette State Bureau analysis shows, and 10 percent moved to Montana after 1990.
Some 29 percent - or 43 members - of the state's 150 lawmakers moved to Montana after they graduated from high school, the analysis showed.
Why for the love of Pete is this even an issue? This is the stupidest thing I have seen masquerading as a news story in a long time.
IT DOESN'T DAMN MATTER WHERE A PERSON IS FROM.
What matters is what a person does. Their actions are what a person should care about, not where they are from, their skin color, sexual orientation, the God they worship, how their plumbing works, whether they own or rent their home, whether they like cats or dogs or any other cosmetic thing. A person's actions are all that matters. Some people and their children. When will people learn this and not worry about the little shit?
Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. Courtney Thorne Smith
I would campaign for and move heaven and hell to elect you Govenor, Representative, or Senator before someone else who did not live in this area and have the historical knowledge to understand the values and customs that are of this area.
It is sad to say that being an expatirate living outside of Montana since 1975, that I have only discovered two individuals I feel worthy of bringing back to the promised land of Montana because they are of the character and person that would be what I consider acceptable for introduction to my beloved Montana citizens as people worthy of casting a shadow upon the homeland.
Personally, with the exception of Karbon Kounty Moos, gut shoot em at the border, and leave em like carp on the banks of the Big Horn along with the reporters of the Billings Gazette and the Washington Post.