Here are the final MSSA Candidate Ratings for the 1998 General Election.
Please share these with as many Montana voters and friends as possible.
We
need to work hard to get the good, pro-gun people elected. Spread
the
word! Help turn out the votes!
A printed copy of these ratings will be mailed to all current MSSA members
this week.
Thanks, Gary
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MONTANA SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION
(Affiliated with the National Rifle Association & Associated with
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms)
1998 MONTANA CANDIDATE RATINGS FOR GUN OWNERS
PHOTOCOPY, REDISTRIBUTE AND POST THESE RATINGS!
VOTE IN NOVEMBER!!
Office Candidate
Rating
NOTE: E after rating = ENDORSED
? = candidate did not return
questionnaire
CONGRESS,
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Dusty Deschamps D
Rick Hill
B+/E
MONTANA SENATE
SD01 Ric Holden A+/E
SD01 Ralph Lenhart
B
SD04 Mack Cole
B/E
SD04 Dan K. Stanley
?
SD07 John Bohlinger C
SD07 Barbara J. Forrester ?
SD09 Al Bishop
B/E
SD09 Arlene Becker
?
SD09 Daniel E. Harn
?
SD11 Ken Miller B
SD12 Alvin A. Ellis Jr A
SD13 Lorents Grosfield B
SD14 Jack Wells A+/E
SD14 Rosanna Joy Piazza B
SD14 Don Bianchi
?
SD16 Don Hargrove
A
SD20 Leonard Wortman ?
SD20 Duane Grimes
A-/E
SD21 Eve Franklin
C
SD23 B. F. Christiaens C
SD23 Rebecca Scott
?
SD24 Steve Doherty
D
SD24 Kathy Meador
A/E
SD26 Mignon Waterman F
SD26 Ben Roberts
?
SD28 Tom Beck
B
SD28 Bill Smith ?
SD30 Steve Benedict
B
SD32 Vicki Cocchiarella F
SD33 Jon Ellingson
F
SD34 Mike Halligan
F
SD38 Bob Keenan B
SD39 Arnie A. Mohl
D
SD41 William S. Crismore
C
SD41 James Rostorfer ?
SD43 Glenn A. Roush B
SD43 Russ Wahl
B
SD44 E. P. Ekegren
?
SD44 Gerald M. Smith A/E
SD45 Roger DeBruycker A+/E
SD45 Jon Tester ?
SD46 Greg Jergeson
B
MONTANA HOUSE OF REPS.
HD01 Marian Hanson A/E
HD02 John Johnson
F
HD03 Tom Zook
A/E
HD04 Arla Jeanne Murray B/E
HD04 Gary Matthews ?
HD05 Norma Bixby
?
HD05 Lila Taylor
B/E
HD06 Judy Murdock
B/E
HD06 Bill Eggers
?
HD07 Monica Lindeen B
HD07 Don Holland
B
HD08 Bob Clark
A+/E
HD08 Ted Dinsmore
?
HD09 Mark E. Noennig ?
HD10 Royal Johnson B
HD11 Kim Gillan D
HD11 Leo Wohler ?
HD12 Ed Logan
?
HD12 Loren Soft B/E
HD13 Rodney Garcia
B/E
HD13 Joan Hurdle
F
HD14 Roy Brown
?
HD14 Gene Jarussi
?
HD15 Daniel C. Fuchs A/E
HD15 Norm Schoenthal ?
HD16 Gary Forrester
?
HD16 Jay Stovall
B
HD17 Bonnie Martinez B/E
HD17 Billie Krenzler
D
HD18 Denise Roth
?
HD18 Bruce Simon
A/E
HD19 Norm Mills A/E
HD19 Tom Dell
?
HD20 Peggy Arnott
A/E
HD20 Carol Gibson
F
HD21 Daniel W. McGee A/E
HD22 Brad Molnar A/E
HD22 Robert Western ?
HD23 Joan Andersen ?
HD23 Paul Lose
?
HD24 Robert R. Story Jr.
B
HD25 Shiell Anderson C
HD25 Bruce Carroll
B/E
HD26 Bob Raney
D
HD27 Mike Vincent
?
HD27 Bob Davies A/E
HD28 Katie Cady ?
HD28 Cindy Younkin ?
HD29 Beverly Barnhart D
HD29 Todd Reier ?
HD30 Emily Swanson D
HD30 Morgan P. Hinesley A/E
HD31 Steve Vick A+/E
HD32 Joe Barnett
A+
HD33 Karl Ohs
B+
HD34 Bill Tash
B+
HD35 Haley Beaudry A/E
HD35 Steven J. Gallus ?
HD36 Joe Quilici
D
HD37 Robert Pavlovich B
HD38 Dan Harrington D
HD39 Ilen Egger Stoll ?
HD39 Rick Dale
C
HD40 Gay Ann Masolo B
HD41 Lynn M. Seelye ?
HD41 Brennan Ryan
B/E
HD42 Vince Kyle ?
HD42 Trudi Schmidt
D
HD43 Diana Wyatt
C
HD44 George Golie
A
HD44 Henry E. Hibbert A
HD44 Don Huizenga
D
HD45 Bob Balyeat
A/E
HD45 Jeff Mangan
C
HD46 Carley Tuss
F
HD47 Joe Tropila
B
HD48 Kathleen Galvin-Halcro ?
HD48 Sandra Seifert Anderson B/E
HD48 Stephen White ?
HD49 Joe McKenney B/E
HD49 C. Mack McConnell D
HD50 John Cobb
B
HD51 Chris Ahner
A/E
HD51 Cathleen L. Nelson ?
HD52 Hal Harper C
HD53 David Ewer D
HD54 Chase Hibbard B/E
HD54 Ruth I. Sasser
?
HD55 Mary Anne Guggenheim?
HD55 Edward Grady
B/E
HD56 Barbara Campbell B/E
HD56 Gary Beck
?
HD57 Red Menahan
C
HD58 Doug Mood
A/E
HD58 Mike Kahoe ?
HD59 Dale Berry B
HD60 Allen Walters
A/E
HD60 Judith Anne Deaver ?
HD61 Jim Shockley
A
HD61 Dorothy Simpson A
HD62 Matt Brainard
A+/E
HD62 John Lynn
?
HD63 Wayne Fairchild ?
HD63 Dick Haines
A/E
HD64 Ron Erickson
?
HD64 Lynn Link
A/E
HD65 Rosalie Buzzas ?
HD66 Gail Gutsche
?
HD66 Jon Williams
A/E
HD67 Tom Facey
?
HD67 Michael Fellows A/E
HD68 Carolyn Squires D
HD68 Jay Sage
A/E
HD69 Carol Williams
?
HD69 Dale Blackford
?
HD69 Dave Hathaway A/E
HD70 Linda McCulloch C
HD70 Hal Schaible
A/E
HD71 Sylvia Bookout A/E
HD71 Robert Culp
C
HD72 Paul Bankhead B
HD72 Paul Clark A
HD73 Rick Jore
A+/E
HD73 Jay Wilson Preston ?
HD74 John Mercer
A+/E
HD74 Jack J. Guns
?
HD75 Stanley Fisher
A-
HD76 Paul Sliter
A+/E
HD76 John S. Scheiffer ?
HD77 Rod Bitney A+/E
HD77 Susan Christofferson ?
HD78 Roger Somerville B
HD78 Tim Dowell B
HD79 Verdell Jackson A
HD79 Gordon Hall
A
HD80 Bob Lawson A-
HD81 Aubyn A. Curtiss A+/E
HD81 Allen Van Horn ?
HD82 Scott J. Orr
A+/E
HD82 James P. Carney ?
HD83 Douglas T. Wagner A+
HD84 Darrel Adams
A+
HD84 Jeremy Lee Fritz ?
HD84 Anne Scott Markle D
HD85 George Heavy Runner
D
HD86 John L. Holden ?
HD86 Clay Stephens
?
HD86 Daniel C. Boggs ?
HD87 John Sam Rose A-
HD88 Edith J. Clark
?
HD89 John E. Witt
B
HD90 Antoinette R. Hagener F
HD91 Ray Peck
D
HD92 Matt McCann
B
HD93 Bill Thomas
C
HD93 Hugo J. Tureck ?
HD93 Edward Butcher ?
HD94 Larry Hal Grinde B
HD95 Ernest Bergsagel B
HD96 Sam Kitzenberg A
HD97 Donald Hedges A/E
HD97 Ellis Hagen
?
HD98 Frank J. Smith
B
HD99 Betty Lou Kasten A
HD100 William Rehbein Jr. A+
Explanatory note: These candidate ratings are based on the voting
records
of incumbents and candidates with prior legislative service, and on
candidate questionnaires when candidates choose to return them.
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.