If you are losing count of the number of folks who are lining up to run for Montana’s open House seat in 2012, you are not alone.

It looks like there are five now after State Sen. Kim Gillan of Billings announced that she was running on Tuesday. She joins Democrats State Rep. Franke Wilmer of Bozeman and Dave Strohmaier of Missoula.

On the Republican side, we have 402nd  generation Montanan Steve Daines (just joking, I think Daines claims he is only a 5th generation Montanan).  Folks are now saying they think Daines will stick to the U.S. House race (he was running for U.S. Senate).  And we have the GOP candidate that nobody wants to be associated with, John Abarr, who reports say once worked as a Ku Klux Klan organizer and is auditing the nights (or knights) at local hotel in Great Falls (sorry, that was a night auditor and not auditor of the nights or knights). Continue reading →