Amanda Curtis announces for Butte state House seat
Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
BUTTE — In between classes, high school math teacher Amanda Curtis ducked into the coffee shop below the historic Metals Bank in uptown Butte on Wednesday to snack on a cinnamon roll and nonchalantly announce she’s running again for the state Legislature.
Curtis, 36, was thrust into the national spotlight last year when she replaced John Walsh on the Democratic ticket in the waning weeks of Montana’s U.S. Senate race against Bozeman Republican Steve Daines.
Daines won by nearly 18 percentage points, taking the seat held briefly by Walsh and for decades by Democrat Max Baucus. But no one blames Curtis. To the contrary, she’s often praised by Democrats for volunteering for a whirlwind statewide campaign — assembling a team on the fly — in a red state in a non-presidential election (turnout was 55 percent) against a formidable opponent who had previously won statewide office.
“There was a job that needed to be done. I was a person who was qualified and then in the end showed that I could do it,” Curtis said. “We did a good job. We turned out as many folks as we could in a bad situation. I learned a ton. I definitely know more than I did going into that. It was an incredible experience.”
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There was so much support for Amanda Curtis and she was ignores by the State Dems and the National Dems. I'm happy to know she is back for a State office.
