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John Lewis, left, and Ryan Zinke at the U.S. House debate in June at Montana Tech in Butte. BEACON FILE PHOTO
U.S. House Candidates Bear Out Differences as General Election Approaches
OCTOBER 8, 2014 | 5
W•O•R•D•S of the Week
AN INDEX OF RECENT NEWSMAKERS
TROY MINE
For the first time in nearly two years, miners are pull- ing copper and silver ore from the Troy Mine. The mine halted production in 2012 following a series of underground rockslides.
GAY MARRIAGE
The U.S. Supreme Court opted to stay out of the same-sex marriage debate by denying appeals from five states that sought to prohibit gay marriages. The decision effectively allows legal same-sex mar- riages in 30 states.
EBOLA
A man remains hospital- ized in Dallas with the Ebola virus as other cases have popped up across the world, spiking concerns of an outbreak.
SUN ROAD
Glacier’s iconic road to Logan Pass was closed last week after an early winter storm covered the road in many places. As of this week, the west side is once again open, while the east side is closed due to construction.
Zinke, Lewis at odds on health care, the budget and energy development
By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Beacon
Less than a month before Election Day, and with absentee voting already underway, the two top candidates vying for Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives have been teasing out strains of distinction as they hammer out
the main planks of their respective cam- paigns in a series of statewide debates and campaign ads.
Republican Ryan Zinke, of Whitefish, a former state senator and Navy SEAL, and Democrat John Lewis, of Helena, a longtime aide to former U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, are vying for Montana’s open con- gressional seat. They are both first-time candidates running for the House.
The third candidate, Libertarian Mike Fellows, was not invited to the recent de- bates and is lagging in the polls.
All three candidates will appear on the
ballot and are running in the Nov. 4 elec- tion for the House seat that U.S. Rep. Steve Daines is leaving to run for Senate. Absen- tee voting began Monday, Oct. 6.
In particular, two recent debates have sharpened the edges of both campaigns, drawing out key shades of distinction in the candidates’ central tenets and reveal- ing a clear divide on issues ranging from health care, to energy development, U.S. military intervention in Iraq to the federal budget, as well as campaign spending and
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