The West remembers.
In nearly five hours of public testimony and a full day of Friday discussion by the commission tasked with creating a second Montana congressional district, the debate kept pivoting to drawing a Western district that wasnât a lead pipe cinch for GOP candidates.
âEvery time you talk to people about what do you think these districts are going to be like, you know, what would be good for Montana? Most people say, âWell, yeah, if we could have at least one district where Montanans are truly given a choice to pick the candidate of their choice, that we ought to be encouraging folks to do that,â said Commissioner Joe Lamson, one of two commissioners appointed to the state Districting and Apportionment Commission by Democratic legislators.