{"id":1626,"date":"2024-01-17T23:45:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T23:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/gop-montana-gov-greg-gianforte-announces-reelection-bid\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T23:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T23:45:24","slug":"gop-montana-gov-greg-gianforte-announces-reelection-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/gop-montana-gov-greg-gianforte-announces-reelection-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announces reelection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, whose administration oversaw a decrease in individual income taxes<\/a> and an increase in residential property taxes, is seeking a second term.<\/p>\n

Gianforte made the announcement Tuesday and said Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras will be his running mate.<\/p>\n

With a historic budget surplus following federal stimulus spending due to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, the state paid off its debt, reduced the top income tax rate and authorized up to $1,250 in one-time rebates to individual income tax payers under Gianforte’s administration. During his first three years in office, the state has seen 40,000 more jobs \u2014 30,000 more compared to pre-pandemic levels \u2014 and record low unemployment, according to federal labor statistics.<\/p>\n

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Property taxes went up because the appraised value of homes increased due to demand. Critics said Gianforte and the Republican Legislature did not do enough to mitigate the increase.<\/p>\n

The legislature passed a property tax rebate of up to $675 for both 2023 and 2024 for resident homeowners \u2014 an amount that Gianforte later said would offset most people’s property tax increases until the 2025 Legislature<\/a> can find a solution.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s still work to do, as we build on what we\u2019ve done,” Gianforte said in a statement. He said serving as governor “has been the honor of my life, and today I humbly ask for your support to serve another term.”<\/p>\n

Ryan Busse, a former firearms executive from Kalispell who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, called Gianforte “just another typical politician who stuck Montanans with a record tax hike so that he could give tax cuts to the wealthy.”<\/p>\n

Busse and the Montana Democratic Party criticized Gianforte’s support of legislation that sought to limit access to abortion. Those laws are being challenged in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, whose administration oversaw a decrease in individual income taxes and an increase in residential property taxes, is seeking a second term. Gianforte made the announcement Tuesday and said Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras will be his running mate. With a historic budget surplus following federal stimulus spending due to the COVID-19 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}