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Is Stacey Schnebel a Democrat or not?

Keith Regier | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 3 months AGO
by Keith Regier
| September 10, 2014 8:05 PM

In the Daily Inter Lake opinion page on Aug. 31, the Democratic candidate for Flathead County commissioner, Stacey Schnebel, said, “I have no use for party politics.”  

I find this statement to be confusing. Ms. Schnebel has filed for commissioner with the Democratic Party. Is she not a Democrat? If not, why has she aligned herself with that political party and its ideology.  

Is she embarrassed by the philosophy of the Democrats? If she truly has no use for party politics, wouldn’t she have filed as an independent candidate? Everyone has an opinion on the role government should have in our lives.  

The voters of Flathead County deserve to know the ideology of candidates before they vote. —Keith Regier, Kalispell

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