Read JP's blog entry on her good work at the legislature:

http://jpformontana.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html

and these lists of points of JP's accomplishments for Montana!

State Budgeting and Fiscal Responsibility

 JP has passed the second-most bills of any legislator in both her first and second terms, ALL with BIPARTISAN SUPPORT.

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+   JP is a fiscally-responsible legislator. Montana households live within their means, and the state does, too.

+   JP has voted in her past legislative sessions for a balanced budget for our state. Last session she voted for a balanced budget and for an ample fund reserve of $262 million, a savings account for the state to weather hard times.

+   Montana has a balanced budget through June 2011!

 +   Montana is one of just two states in the nation with money in the bank. 48 of 50 other states are in deficit, but not Montana.

 +   JP is a champion for businesses. After the natural gas explosion and fire in downtown Bozeman last year, JP passed a law to protect the value of our entire downtown district, and any other business district that suffers a disaster.

+   JP voted for money to clean up contaminants from the new Bozeman Public Library site, a showpiece in our downtown area.

 +   JP passed a law for state matching grants for federal small business innovative research (SBIR) grants and small business technology transfer (STTR) grants that keep our entrepreneurs, technology, and innovation building businesses right here in Montana, not going out of state.

 +   JP was the only Democrat in the House of Representatives to serve on a special subcommittee to lower or repeal the business equipment tax.

 +   JP Pomnichowski has stood up for small businesses. She voted for Insure Montana, a program in which small businesses can pool together to buy health insurance for their employees.

Education and School Funding

JP  passed the second-most bills of any legislator in both her first and second terms, ALL with BIPARTISAN SUPPORT.

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+   JP supports ample, not just adequate, funding for Montana public schools.

+   JP voted to freeze tuition for Montana university students for the first time in twenty years.

+   JP voted for all-day kindergarten.

 +   JP is a proud product of Montana public schools. She graduated from CM Russell High School in Great Falls with a college-prep diploma the first year that diploma was offered.

 +   JP is a graduate of Montana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in technical communications and a minor in English. She studied architecture and physics at MSU, too.

 +   JP was a student senator at MSU and fought to keep the state’s and region’s only accredited architecture program, now a top architecture school.

+   JP has been endorsed in this campaign and in her two previous campaigns by the Montana Education Association—Montana Federation of Teachers (MEA-MFT).

 +   JP voted for $28 million to renovate Gaines Hall on the MSU campus, the building which houses chemistry and natural science labs, and in which nearly every MSU student attends classes sometime in his or her college career.

 +   JP carried the bill to place on the ballot the six-mill levy for university funding, a levy that voters have approved since 1947, and passed again in 2008.

 +   JP serves on the Gallatin College of Technology advisory board. The Gallatin COT offers two-year education tracts in Bozeman in aviation/aeronautics, welding, interior design, and design drafting, as well as developmental instruction in math and writing, and will offer expanded courses in the immediate future.

 +   JP voted for the Montana Virtual Academy, to make distance learning opportunities available to all school-age children through public school districts in Montana.

 +   JP is a member of the MSU Bobcat football game-day stat crew, and has been for twenty years. She keeps the NCAA record of the game.

 +   JP’s aunt taught 26 years in Great Falls public schools, before serving as a principal in two elementary schools there.

Montana's Hunting and Fishing Heritage

+   JP Pomnichowski has passed five laws for hunters and fishermen.

+   JP passed a law to allow disabled hunters to more easily get disabled hunting permits.

+   JP passed a law to protect your personal information on recreation licenses.

+   JP carried the stream access bill in her first session for public access from county bridges, and the bill became law last session.

+   JP passed a law for Purple Heart recipients and grandparents and grandchildren to fish and hunt game birds for free.

+   JP passed a law for youth bird hunting at a discounted price, so more families can hunt together.

+   JP has received an award from the Montana Game Warden Association, and the MGWA has endorsed JP for re-election.

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 More to come!

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