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15 April 2015

Nancy Keenan’s a wise choice for Montana Democrats ExecDir

Nancy Keenan, former Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction and state legislator, is an excellent choice for executive director of the Montana Democratic Party.

She brings to the position:

Those skills and qualities will be tested to the utmost. Montana’s rightward lean that began in the mid-1990s continues. Her party’s an unruly beast that keeps losing elections at the legislative and local level, especially in midterm years, in part because it’s frightened that clearly differentiating itself from the GOP will alienate voters. She needs to exorcise that culture of defeat. That won’t be easy.