The Montana We Know

Every morning we open our eyes is yet another opportunity to rise, face the world and make choices.

When I’m not sharing parenting duties with my wife Meagen, and running our four kids to and from school and their various activities around Billings, I choose to work hard at standing up to bullies and corporations who have lied, cheated and stolen from my clients. I’m a consumer protection attorney, which means I stand up for working people who get shafted by powerful corporations—from the widow whose insurance company tries to trick her rather than pay the benefits it owes, to the teacher who does everything the bank told her to; only to suddenly find her family facing foreclosure, and the farmer who can’t get the big out-of-state energy company to live up to their contract.

I have stood up and fought for these underdogs–victims of corporate greed and overreach. In hundreds of cases, powerful companies have thought they could get away with bullying tactics and focus only on their own profit motives. I have had the pleasure of putting these companies before Montana juries who know a thing or two about personal accountability, and the difference between right and wrong–and I’ve won.

You deserve access to high-quality, affordable healthcare without regard to the interests of insurance companies, drug companies and their well-heeled corporate lobbyists. You deserve a strong public education system that is not undermined by efforts to take your tax dollars and spend them on private schools for the wealthy who can afford to pay their own way. You deserve a tax policy that helps expand and grow our job opportunities, strengthens our economy, and looks to save you money—not save money for those who benefit by so many tax-dodging loopholes already. You deserve a representative who will stand up to dark money special interests, not support it. You get to decide.

The Montana we all know and love is at great risk. We must turn our backs on the bickering and partisanship perpetrated by the national political parties and look forward to a positive future. We all know that Washington is broken, and that neither party has the market cornered on ethical behavior or competence. But together, we will choose what we believe we deserve.

Just as I am for my clients, I am excited to fight for you, for your family, and for all Montanans.

John Heenan is a primary candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.