Helena Man Files for U.S. House of Representatives
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Kevin Hamm
Candidate for Montana’s Eastern Congessional District |
Helena Man Files for U.S. House of Representatives
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Kevin Hamm, age 51, has filed to run for the Eastern District seat of the U.S. House of Representatives. He spoke at a Broadwater Democrats meeting on January 23 at the backroom of the Mint.
Hamm, who has no experience in government, has a small internet technology business and is active in the Montana Gay Pride organization. A graduate of Capitol High School, he attended Four Georgians Grade School and attended Montana State University.
He ran for the Public Service Commission in 2022 but lost to John Reptke.
In a January 25 interview in Helena, Hamm contended he feels he can win the primary seat because he is very familiar with policy. Hamm worked around the legislature in 2014 so he said running for office means the candidate must be accessible to the voters. “I need to be able to get out and talk to people so we can find common ground,” he explained.
Hamm referred to running for office as acting in a show. He has been on stage for 26 years in theater, “I know I can maintain the show and still talk policy,” he said.
Hamm pointed out two reasons for Broadwater County voters to support him in the upcoming election: One is about bringing faster broadband to the county. He said so far we have no common carrier agreements to lay optic fiber because the area has already been granted to Space X’s Starlink services by the federal government.
The federal government can and has rescinded those grants and could reallocate them to fiber builders. He continued the federal government has “all the pieces” to build broadband infrastructure and then could allocate funding to communities so they could choose their own servers. “That’s what should be happening,” he concluded.
The second reason for Broadwater County voter support is around the issue of services for veterans. “The Veterans’ Administration (VA) should be proactive with services,” he said, “VA people should be talking to each veteran asking him or her – what do you need.”
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