HB 112 passed a preliminary vote today in the Montana Legislature, and will face a final vote tomorrow. The implications of this bill are that if it passes neither the Montana Grizzly Football team or the Montana State Bobcats (or any NAIA team) will be allowed to host a home football playoff game again, due to NCAA policy. If you want to avoid that, then you need to do more than just worry and complain, you need to take action TODAY!
This bill only passed the preliminary vote by four votes. If we can get two of the people that voted yes, to switch their vote to no tomorrow, we can avoid all of this. Below is a list of names of legislators from major cities that voted yes, everyone of these people needs to get a message from you asking them to vote no tomorrow on HB 112. Tell them the implications on the Griz and Bobcat playoff opportunities if this bill passes. Tell them this bill is bad for these football programs and bad for the economies of Bozeman and Missoula.
Click here to send your messages: https://leg.mt.gov/web-messaging/
Send your messages to everyone on this, regardless of where you live:
Mark Blasdel – Kalispell
Jason Ellsworth – Hamilton
Steve Fitzpatrick – Great Falls
Chris Friedel – Billings
Terry Gauther – Helena
Douglas Kary – Billings
Theresa Manzella – Hamilton
Tom McGillvray – Billings
Brad Molnar – Laurel
Walt Sales – Manhattan
Cary Smith – Billings
Gordon Vance – Belgrade
I encourage any cat posters reading this to copy and paste this post and
post it on bobcat nation as well.
Its time to fight on and the Griz need us now! Go Griz!