Admits past failings to prevent Baucus from attacking
Saying he's concerned Democratic Sen. Max Baucus may use personal smears in the campaign, as he has in past campaigns, Republican candidate Bob Kelleher laid out his life's faults Wednesday. Kelleher said he'd beat Baucus to the punch and lay bare his
personal shortcomings:
As a 23-year-old man, Kelleher was a friar in a Carmelite monastery 18 months away from ordination into the priesthood. He dropped out, Kelleher said, because he couldn't handle the vow of chastity.
He has been married
& divorced three times. He has seven children and regrets the impact his absence had on their lives. Kelleher said he particularly regrets the way he walked out on his first wife,
Gerry, mother to his six oldest children and to whom he was long married.
"I wanted to have fun," he said, but his fun hurt his children and his wife, whom he described as "wonderful."
Source: By Jennifer McKee, The Missoulian
Jul 3, 2008
Ran for office in past as Green and as Democrat
Patty Lovaas filed a Declaration of Candidacy to be on the November ballot in Montana as an independent candidate for Senate. She had also run in this year's Republican primary for the same office [losing to Bob Kelleher].
Lovaas is running as an
independent, because, she says, the man who won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate this year is not a bona fide Republican. He is Bob Kelleher, who was the Green Party nominee for Governor in 2004 [and has run for public office as a Democrat].
Nominated but barred from speaking at state GOP convention
Denied a chance to speak at the state Republican convention, the party's U.S. Senate nominee Bob Kelleher fielded questions Friday from reporters and a Ron Paul supporter in an otherwise empty side room.
State Republican Chairman Erik Iverson decided
not to allow Kelleher to speak during one of the meals at the convention, as other statewide candidates were allowed to do. Iverson said it appeared that the only plank of the Republican platform Kelleher agrees with was opposition to abortion.
Source: Charles S. Johnson in Billings Gazette
May 22, 2008
