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Apparently Macaca, Michael Lange, and other death by videotape moments had the Montana GOP too nervous to honor Montana’s open meetings law last weekend. As many have said, the convention had a quorum of the party’s legislators in the room, and they were discussing public policy. In my non-legal educated opinion, that sounds pretty close to what Judge Honzel was describing when he ruled on party caucuses in 1995 and 1998.

Perhaps they’ve become so extreme, that they’re afraid of Montanans seeing them for what they truly are? I can’t see why they’d otherwise not welcome the opportunity to have MT Dem staffers waste their time at what had to have been a painfully tedious event. These guys have no basis to defend their closed doors–despite the UM College Republican website claiming a desire to create an “open atmosphere for discussion.” (Btw, why aren’t you guys and gals in Iraq?) Instead, they resort to mocking a verbal gaffe by a staffer and false histrionics about “clean politicking.” I think I speak for most of us when I say save the theatrics and explain to Montanans what is is that you don’t want us to see.

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