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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