Sounds like he has run up against the term limit and must seek another job. That seems to be the main motivator for our Republicans out here.
“Sounds like he has run up against the term limit and must seek another job.”
Actually, no. He term-limited out of the House, but is only in his first term as a state Senator, so he could easily have waited to run for the open governor’s seat in 2012, when he would be safely in the middle of his second Senate term.
Obviously, Brown is a serious candidate who wouldn’t run if he didn’t think he had a chance of upending a popular incumbent Governor. Still, it is a long shot, and he seems to be doing this in no small part because he understands that unless the governor has a strong opponent, we will suffer heavy losses in the legislature.
In other words, old-fashioned as it sounds, he is doing it at least in part out of a sense of duty, and taking one for the team.
What a wonderfully pessimistic view. Actually Roy got termed out in the House, is serving his FIRST term in the Senate. This choice was difficult for him, but it was done with the interests of the state. As weird as it may seem now a days, Roy actually thinks in terms of what is best for the people of the State of Montana.