Quist holds campaign kick-off event in Whitefish, Montana
A Flathead Valley musician took to the stage on Monday evening in downtown Whitefish for a new reason — campaigning for Montana’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
About 120 people gathered at Casey’s Pub and Grill for a campaign kick-off event for Rob Quist, a Creston-area musician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House seat vacated earlier this month by now-Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. Quist is running to finish out the term against Republican Greg Gianforte and Libertarian Mark Wicks.
“They say one of the keys for winning this race is to lose the Flathead by the least amount possible,” Quist said, speaking to a supportive crowd in the deep-red county’s most liberal enclave. “We want to turn that around. We want to win the Flathead.”
Quist is well-known in the Flathead Valley and elsewhere in Montana, where he has toured extensively as a musician. But the Democrat may still have to boost his name recognition on the political stage to compete against Gianforte, the Bozeman businessman who narrowly lost to Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock during last year’s sharply contested gubernatorial election.
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and I say "bring 'em on." 
Here's an article with lots of examples: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/gazette-opinion-stick-with-the-issues-not-the-insults/article_0dfdaba6-0f22-5da4-8b16-11cdf9d9b9f9.html
Stivers doubtless is unfamiliar with Montana's dress code. You can pick on a person's musical career. You can even call them a socialist. But we'd suggest once you start mocking the cowboy hat, them's fighting words, pardner. Savvy, Mr. Stivers?
Here's another, showing that Rob Quist knows how to pick up votes in MT. http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/george-ochenski-gianforte-out-of-tune-on-quist/article_81a280c0-c8f4-5b4d-8f02-27a112f6cb39.html
For those who may doubt that prediction, a quick look at what Quist has already done will be instructional. Taking some good advice from former Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Quist headed out to Montana’s 56 counties, places in which he has performed for more than 40 years. With a face and voice well known and much loved in Montana Quist took Schweitzer’s advice to heart.
The result is that he organized Democratic Party committees in seven counties that lacked them, garnering the support of 28 theretofore non-existent votes for the Helena nominating convention. Quist then outperformed state Rep. Amanda Curtis in the final tally by a vote of 90 to 69, carried to victory by those new votes he took the personal time and energy to cultivate in places the party had apparently written off.
