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The best use of political power

by JIM ELLIOTT
| May 8, 2025 12:00 AM

In 2008, during my last year in the Montana Legislature, a woman came to me with a problem. I don’t remember much about it. It couldn’t have been important to anyone but her.

Anyway, I told her I would see what I could do. I made a phone call to a government agency and got it fixed, then I called her to tell her the good news.

“Boy,” she said, “I wish I had that kind of power!”

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