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The Billings Gazette CITYSTATE Thursday, March 24 1994 3B Addy accuses Burns of insincerity Bookkeeper to ran for treasurer By NANCY NOTTINGHAM Of The Gazette Staff Brad Stewart, a bookkeeper with the Yellowstone CityCounty Health Department, announced this week he will run for county treasurer. Name: Brad Stewart Age: 32 Occupation: Bookkeeper, Yellowstone CityCounty Health Department Education: Graduate of Billings West High School; attended Montana State University; graduated from Eastern Montana College with a bachelor of science degree in business administration. Community Involvement: Official scorer for Pope Young Club; past president, Archery Division of Billings Rod Gun Club; member of First United Methodist Church. HELENA (AP) The head of the Montana Democratic Party says Sen. Conrad Burns, was hypocritical in sponsoring a pair of conferences for women last week.

Democratic Chairman Kelly Addy said Burns holds the conferences to make political hay at the same time he opposes issues important to women, including abortion. "Burns has consistently refused to support-measures to empower women of Montana and to assist them in making economic transitions many of them must make to support their families and make ends meet," Addy said Tuesday. "It will take more than holding yet another conference just seven months prior to the election to prove his dedication to these issues," the Billings lawyer said. A spokeswoman for Burns dismissed Addy 's comments as "political posturing." "It's just Kelly doing his job as state chairman," said Janice Rehberg, co-chairman of the Burns re-election campaign. She defended the conferences, which have been held the last three years, as offering valuable help for women.

Last week's "Montana Woman '90s" gatherings at Billings and Fairmont Hot Springs attracted 360 participants. "He (Burns) has brought high-caliber people to provide women with the opportunity to learn and work together," said Rehberg, a Helena attorney. "If Kelly has a problem with it, that's Kelly's problem." The conferences are advertised as a forum for Montana women to discuss issues and challenges they face daily. The issues at this year's meetings included stress, communication between the sexes, managing conflict, the mature woman and getting ahead. Despite the conferences, Addy said, a report last year showed Burns paid his female staff members average salaries that total less than male employees received.

He also said Burns has voted against abortion rights and supported efforts to dilute legislation requiring employers to give workers family leave time. "If Burns wants people to think he cares, he ought to consistently vote that way, period," Addy said. Rehberg said Addy skews the image of Burns. "You have to look at Conrad the person," she said. "He's got a wife, a daughter in medical school in the military.

This is a man who's got a keen interest in seeing to it that women have a position of responsibility and respect." Stewart is the only person so far to seek the office being vacated by Republican Kevan Bryan. He filed as a Democrat. At the health department, Stewart -iv A f'il afcr nas been responsible for recording all revenue and STEWART candidate Alliance quits coalition with Yellowstone group his job with the health department. He has accepted another bookkeeping position with Electrical Consultants Inc. "I knew that if I wanted to do this, I'd have to quit my employment I've had a lot of support from friends and co-workers and family.

Everyone I've talked to has been enthusiastic about it," Stewart said. Bryan, who has been in office since 1989 and is well-respected throughout the county, will be a tough act to follow, Stewart said. If elected, Stewart said, he will continue Bryan's philosophy of taking services out into the county. Bryan made monthly visits to Laurel and Worden to hear residents' concerns. The visits to Laurel provided the impetus for opening a motor vehicle office there last year.

"I'd feel real fortunate if I can step in behind him to an organization that's running as well as he has it running." expenditures and for generating monthly reports for all department programs. "It seems that this job has prepared me for the treasurer's office," Stewart said. "I looked at what the treasurer does, and it's a lot of the same thing I'm doing with the health department as far as reporting on revenue and expenditures. And I'm ready for a move up." Stewart has an accounting degree and has done "quite a lot of tax and law study," he said. Because of the Hatch Act.

which says that local and state employees whose paychecks include federal grant funds can't run for public office, Stewart has resigned HELENA (AP) Here is a list of candidates filing for office Wednesday. DISTRICT JUDGE Frank Davis, Dillon, Dist. 5, Dept. 1 (i) David Cybulski, Plentywood, Dist. 15, Dept.

1 LEGISLATURE House Nancy Staigmiller, D-Miles City, HD4 Lorene Blakely, D-Three Forks, HD32 Deb Kottel, D-Great Falls, HD45 Clayton Braden, D-Great Falls, HD48 Elmer Cherry, R-Corvallis, HD60 Charles Devaney, R-Plentywood, HD97 Senate Rolph Tunby, R-Plevna, SD1 Thomas McGonigal, D-Baker, SD1 Angela Russell, D-Lodge Grass, SD3 C.A. "Casey" Emerson, R-Bozeman, SD14 Tom Connor, R-Great Falls, SD21 Mike Parker, R-Great Falls, SD24 (D-Democrat; R-Republican; (i) incumbent) stone Ecosystem. The coalition did not consult the Alliance for the Wild Rockies before making major policy decisions, Bader said. The coalition's departing executive director, Ed Lewis, disputed complaints by the alliance and said his organization would respond in a letter. "The GYC position on Montana wilderness legislation has been consistent for many years," Lewis said from his office in Bozeman.

He said the coalition has worked to protect key roadless lands in the Yellowstone ecosystem and will continue doing so. "We're sorry to see them drop out, but we obviously have differences," he said. Lewis said about 100 organizations belong to the coalition, which was founded in 1983. MISSOULA (AP) The Alliance for the Wild Rockies withdrew from an environmental coalition on Wednesday and cited differences in policy and style as the reason. The alliance, based in Missoula, ended its membership in the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.

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HELENA (AP) Ravalli County law officers violated the rights of a Florence man by coercing him to confess that he grew marijuana, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled. The unanimous decision Tuesday overturned the drug possession conviction of Richard Rush-ton and rejected evidence obtained illegally by sheriff's deputies. I The court said the officers made numerous mistakes in confronting Rushton in his home a year and a half ago. I The deputies talked their way into the house without a search warrant and then vowed not to leave until Rushton admitted he had marijuana growing in the garage, the court said. As a result, both the confession and marijuana obtained in the case cannot be used as evidence in court, the justices held.

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