10 November 2018 — 0555 mst
Only five Montana counties produced majorities for Initiative 185
Even notoriously Republican Flathead County was more pro-185 than Cascade, Ravalli, and Yellowstone Counties.
Incidentally, I’m beginning to receive difficult to dismiss reports that the tobacco industry said it wouldn’t strenuously object to a more modest increase in the tobacco tax; for example, $1.25 per pack of cigarettes. Was the initiative doomed because its authors got greedy? One-hundred-thousand Montanans who are going to lose their health insurance would like to know.
