MONTANA SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION

(Affiliated with the National Rifle Association & Associated with

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms)

2000 MONTANA CANDIDATE RATINGS FOR GUN OWNERS

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Names in Bold type indicate endorsed candidates

*=Incumbent ?=no information/questionnaire

President of the United States

Harry Browne A

Patrick Buchanan A

George Bush B

Albert Gore F

John Hagelin ?

Ralph Nader D

Howard Phillips A

U.S. Senate

*Conrad Burns A

Brian Schweitzer ?

U.S. House of Representatives

Nancy Keenan C

Dennis Rehberg A+

Governor/Lt. Governor

Judy Martz/Karl Ohs A/A

Mark O'Keefe/Carol Williams B/D

Stan Jones/Michael Kaszula A/?

Secretary of State

Bob Brown A

Hal Harper D

Mike Fellows A

J.R, Myers B

Attorney General

Jim Rice A

Mike McGrath A

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Elaine Sollie Herman A

Linda McCulloch C

Larry Foust ?

State Auditor

Joyce Schmidt A

John Morrison ?

Rebecca Scott ?

Public Service Commission

D4 Matt Brainard A+

D4 Dave Fisher ?

State Senate

SD2 Tom Zook A-

SD2 Shirley Kapitzke A-

SD3 Reiny Jabs A-

SD3 Gerald Pease ?

SD5 Royal C. Johnson C

SD5 Ted Dinsmore ?

SD6 *Mike Sprague A

SD6 Kevin Justis ?

SD8* "Bill" Glaser A-

SD8 Teresa Stroebe ?

SD10 Corey Stapleton ?

SD10 Bill Shikany ?

SD15 Joe Barnett A

SD15 Emily Swanson C

SD17 Bill Tash A

SD17 Marcia Fairhurst ?

SD18 Holly Jordan B

SD18 *Debbie Shea F

SD19 Dan W. Harrington C

SD19 Dennis Sullivan A

SD22 John Wilson B-

SD22 Don Ryan ?

SD25 John Cobb C

SD27 Chase Hibbard A

SD27 Ken Toole ?

SD29 *Bea McCarthy B

SD30 *Dale E. Berry A

SD30 Darrell Binkerd ?

SD30 Lowell Smith ?

SD31 *Fred Thomas A

SD31 Lisa Thompson B

SD31 Russel Vogel ?

SD32 Allen Lee A

SD32 *Vicki Cocchiarella F

SD35 *Dale Mahlum B-

SD35 Andrew F. Scott A-

SD36 Greg Hinkle A

SD36 Jim Elliott D

SD37 *Mike Taylor B

SD40 *Bob DePratu A-

SD42 Jerry O'Neil A

SD47 Ed Butcher A

SD48 Sam Kitzenberg A-

SD49 *Linda J. Nelson B+

SD50 *Walter L. McNutt B

 

House of Representatives

HD1 Keith Bales A

HD1 Max Lorbiecke ?

HD2 *Ralph L. Lenhart C-

HD3 Ronald R. Devlin ?

HD3 Jean Dahlman B

HD4 Fred Anderson ?

HD4 *Gary Matthews B+

HD5 *Lila V. Taylor A-

HD5 Norma Bixby D

HD6 Judy Murdock B

HD6 *Bill Eggers D

HD7 Tom Asay A

HD7 *Monica Lindeen B+

HD8 Alan Olson B+

HD8 Rose Emily Longan ?

HD9 *Mark Noennig C

HD10 Art Peterson B-

HD10 Jim Court ?

HD11 "Bill" Ebert ?

HD11 *Kim Gillan C

HD12 Clarice Schrumpf C

HD12 Ed Logan C

HD13 Rodney Garcia B

HD13 *Joan Hurdle F

HD14 *Roy Brown A-

HD14 Lynda Bourque Moss ?

HD15 *Daniel Fuchs A

HD15 Jeff Greenfield D

HD16 Lynn Madsen B

HD16 Gary Forrester A

HD17 Paul J. DiLorenzo B

HD17 Gary Branae ?

HD18 Dennis Himmelberger ?

HD18 Tom Curry B

HD19 Michael Lange A

HD19 *Tom Dell D

HD20 Ken Peterson ?

HD20 Carol Gibson F

HD20 Jim Bennett ?

HD21 *"Dan" McGee A

HD21 Jeff Simkovic B-

HD22 Jeff Laszloffy A

HD22 Marilyn R. Huestis ?

HD23 *Joan Andersen B+

HD23 Elizabeth "Betsy" Scanlin ?

HD24 * Robert Story, Jr. A

HD24 Donna L. Dickey ?

HD25 John Esp B+

HD25 Bruce Carroll B-

HD25 Clayton Bryington ?

HD26 Fred Shellenberg B+

HD26 Michelle Lee ?

HD27 *Bob Davies A+

HD27 Tracy Velazquez ?

HD28 *Cindy Younkin A

HD28 Scott Frazier ?

HD29 Sandra Lee Smiley ?

HD29 Larry Jent A-

HD30 Christopher Harris ?

HD30 Morgan Hinesley A

HD31 *Steve Vick A

HD31 Perry Hofferber ?

HD32 Joe Balyeat A+

HD32 Millie Thompson ?

HD33 Diane Rice A

HD33 William Fairhurst ?

HD34 Debby Barrett B

HD34 Robert N Miller B

HD35 Gerald R. Allen B

HD35 *Steve Gallus D

HD36 Jay I. Morris ?

HD36 Jim Keane F

HD37 Tom Worring A

HD37 Larry Cyr C

HD38 Brad Newman ?

HD38 Kathryn Sullivan B

HD39 *Rick Dale A

HD39 Leonard Wortman ?

HD39 Vanessa Martin ?

HD40 *Gay Ann Masolo A

HD40 Jennifer L. Hensley ?

HD40 Dan Hutchings A

HD41 James G. Whitaker ?

HD41 *Brennan Ryan A

HD41 Jonathan Martin ?

HD42 Terry M. Poupa A

HD42 *Trudi Schmidt F

HD43 Bob Reiman A

HD43 T.M. "Tim" Callahan ?

HD44 David A. Ekstedt ?

HD44 *George Golie B+

HD45 Art Dickhoff A

HD45 *Jeff Mangan D

HD46 Rick D. Linafelter A-

HD46 Brett Tramelli ?

HD46 Philip DuPaul ?

HD47 Ken Hall A

HD47 *Joe Tropila C-

HD48 Dave Johnson A

HD48 *Kathleen Galvin-Halcro C-

HD49 *Joe McKenney A

HD49 Sue Dickenson D

HD50 Rick Ripley ?

HD51 Gilda Clancy A

HD51 Keith Allen B

HD52 Bill Eiker ?

HD52 Dave Gallik ?

HD53 Cory Swanson ?

HD53 Christine Kaufmann F

HD54 Ward Shanahan C

HD54 Hal Jacobson C+

HD55 Dave Lewis A-

HD55 *Mary Anne Guggenheim D

HD56 Allen Rome A

HD56 Philip E. Maxwell ?

HD57 Jesse Laslovich B

HD58 *Doug Mood A

HD58 Dennis Daneke C

HD59 Rick Laible A-

HD59 Judith Anne Deaver A

HD60 *Allan Walters A

HD60 James R. Olsen ?

HD61 *Jim Shockley A

HD61 Dick Green A

HD61 Erik Jerde F

HD62 Butch Waddill A

HD62 Jean Ellen Belangie-Nye C-

HD62 Lou Hatch A

HD63 *Dick Haines A

HD63 John Rimel ?

HD64 Amy Fisher A-

HD64 *Ron Erickson F

HD65 *"Rosie" Buzzas C-

HD66 Kandi Matthew-Jenkin A

HD66 *Gail Gutsche D

HD67 *Tom Facey B+

HD67 Steve Larsen ?

HD68 George Bailey A

HD68 David E. Wanzenried A

HD68 Larry Foust ?

HD68 Andy Lochridge ?

HD69 Gary Marbut A+

HD69 Nancy Rice Fritz ?

HD69 Leonard Stark A

HD70 Fred Deschamps B

HD70 Holly Raser ?

HD70 E.L. Bernosky ?

HD70 Pascal Redfern A

HD71 *Sylvia Bookout-Reinicke A

HD71 Robert "Bob" Culp C

HD72 Michael L. Hashisaki B+

HD72 *Paul Clark A

HD73 *Rick Jore A+

HD73 Joey Jayne ?

HD74 John Brueggeman A

HD74 Michael Heit A

HD74 Jack Guns ?

HD74 Phonacelle Shapel B

HD75 *Stanley M. Fisher A

HD75 Edd Blackler ?

HD75 Fred Fekete C

HD76 *Paul Sliter A+

HD77 *Rod Bitney A

HD77 Timothy Martin B

HD78 *Roger Somerville A

HD78 Tim Dowell B

HD79 *Verdell Jackson A

HD80 *Bob Lawson C

HD81 *Aubyn Curtiss A+

HD81 Jerome Johnson A

HD82 Don Lewis A

HD82 Eileen Carney B-

HD82 Ron Willis A

HD83 Dee L. Brown B

HD83 John T. Polotto B

HD84 *Darrel Adams A

HD84 Jeremy Fritz D

HD86 Linda L. Holden A-

HD86 Everett W. King ?

HD87 Larry R. Lehman ?

HD87 Marsha J. Hinch ?

HD88 *Edith Clark A

HD89 *John Witt A

HD90 Merlin Wolery ?

HD90 * "Toni" Hagener F

HD91 John L. Musgrove ?

HD92 *Matt McCann D

HD93 *Bill Thomas B

HD93 Hugo Tureck ?

HD94 William R. Price D

HD95 Jeff Pattison A

HD95 Art Arnold C

HD96 Karl A. Waitschies C-

HD96 Todd Wagner B

HD97 *Donald Hedges A

HD97 "Woody" Michels ?

HD98 *Frank Smith D

HD99 Dave Kasten A-

HD99 Boone A. Whitmer A-

HD100 Donald Steinbeisser ?

HD100 John R. Redman ?

Explanatory note: These candidate ratings are based on the voting records of incumbents and candidates with prior public service, on candidate questionnaires when candidates choose to return them, and on public information available about candidates when questionnaires and voting records were not available. MSSA pooled information with the NRA to arrive at the candidate ratings on these pages. MSSA’s candidate ratings may not be the same as the NRA’s, because the NRA and MSSA may interpret votes and answers differently. Also, MSSA is non-partisan, which is why party affiliation of candidates is not shown.

There is also a more detailed explanation here.