(Montana Free Press) The individual backers behind four initiatives that have been gathering signatures in an effort to qualify for the fall ballot said this week that they haven’t been able to gather the tens of thousands of required voter signatures.
The four initiatives were one that would make the american rodeo Montana’s official state sport, one that would strip the Montana Supreme Court of the authority to license attorneys, one that would allow for the creation of citizen-initiated grand jurys, and one that would generally force the state to issue licenses to land owners to hunt elk, deer, and black bear on their property.
Most of the backers noted that their relatively low-dollar efforts hadn’t been able to match the success of the major initiative campaigns.
