Casazza, Hanson withdrawn from state election
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 3 months AGO
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4421. | August 30, 2016 4:01 PM
Two Flathead County candidates for the state Legislature will not appear on the November ballot after failing to file required documents, according to state officials.
Democrat Cody Casazza of Columbia Falls in the Senate District 2 race and Libertarian Shannon Hanson of Whitefish in the House District 6 race have been withdrawn, said officials with the state Commissioner of Political Practices.
Casazza had been facing incumbent Republican Dee Brown in the Nov. 8 election. Hanson was running against incumbent Republican Carl Glimm and Democrat Lisa Morrow.
Commissioner Jon Motl in a letter last week notified the Secretary of State’s office that the candidates had not submitted legally required reports to his office.
In the letter, Motl said the candidates do not “appear to wish to remain on the 2016 general election ballot” as his office made multiple contacts with the candidates in attempts to secure the required forms.
Two other candidates in the state were also withdrawn from ballots. Democrat Tracy Heilman of Billings in the House District 54 race and Democrat Mary Meyer of Townsend in the Senate District 35 race.
There are no multidistrict or statewide candidates who have failed to file required statements or reports, according to Motl.
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