If you’ve driven around Montana much recently, you can’t help but see campaign signs popping up like dandelions on a warm spring day.  I’ve done “sign duty” for several campaigns over the years, and it is  fun to go on the road with a friend, take a bunch a signs, a list, supplies, and drive around putting up signs along the way.

Although it’s fun to put the signs up, it’s not that much fun to take them down after the candidate you supported with your time, effort, and money loses.  But that’s democracy…and life – there are always winners and losers.

Seeing the signs popping up gets my political juices flowing!  But then I see a sign or billboard for a judge and wonder why states, like Montana, still elect judges.  That’s the reason for this column today.

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