Lest there should be any lingering doubt about who benefits from a vote for the Green Party, the Republican Party in Montana secretly paid $100,000 to raise signatures to get the Greens on the ballot — even when the Greens didn’t want to be on it.
The Missoulian reports:
Earlier this year paid petitioners appeared in Montana's larger cities gathering signatures to qualify the Greens to run candidates this cycle, even though the Montana Green Party has made clear it did not do any work to qualify for the ballot this year and had not planned to run any candidates.
After the state declared that the Green Party had received enough signatures and were placed on the ballot, the source of the effort was discovered:
The Montana Republican Party made Montanans for Conservation an in-kind contribution totaling $100,000 on Feb. 20, Wenetta wrote, for the signature-gathering efforts. The committee would be required to report that spending by April 15, according to state campaign finance deadlines.
If you didn’t know who wins when you vote Green, now you know.