Montana Democratic Party Chair Shannon O’Brien resigned Monday over disagreements with the party’s Senate candidate, Alani Bankhead.
With early voting already underway in the state, O’Brien announced her exit in an MS NOW op-ed, where she pledged her support for independent candidate Seth Bodnar and wrote that the Montana Democratic Party is “more divided than ever not because of our values but because of the race for the U.S. Senate.”
“There are real questions about Democrat Alani Bankhead’s commitment to protecting a woman’s right to choose, her support of working people and her views of people living in poverty,” O’Brien wrote in her op-ed, adding that Bankhead is “almost brand new” to Montana. …