On the early afternoon of March 21, 2025, a town hall was hosted by Indivisible Bozeman and Indivisible Park County. About 350 Montana citizens showed up, filling the Large Meeting Room of the Bozeman Public Library to capacity, with about 200 more standing in the cold and wind outside the front entrance. Brian Cassel moderated the event, introducing speakers Bruce Grubbs, a former Republican State Legislator and Bozeman School Board member; Brett Heitshuzen, a veteran from Helena, who had moderated the veterans rally at the State Capitol on March 14, 2025, (selected audio of which can be found on the KGVM website https://kgvm.org/show/veterans-rally-helena-mt-3-14-25/.) He was followed by Dr. Jerry Groggel, whose daughter & son-in-law were fired without warning from USAID and were currently stranded in Ecuador; and then former MT Republican Governor and Attorney General, Marc Racicot.

MT Senators Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy, as well as Representative Ryan Zinke, had been invited to attend and hear the concerns of their constituents. They had let it be known that they would not attend. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle quoted a spokesperson for Senator Sheehy responding “Senator Sheehy will not be attending the Indivisible event, because he does not support and does not want to be associated with Indivisible’s radical policies defunding police departments and abolishing ICE.” The Chronicle quoted a spokesperson for Senator Daines saying “Indivisible is a far-left group funded by the radical wing of the Democrat (sic) Party and does not dictate the senator’s schedule.” In any case, Daines had flown to China, arriving there Thursday evening. Representatives for Zinke did not respond to the Chronicle’s request for comment.

Anticipating their absence, the organizers had placed caricatures of the three, which were attached to chairs at the front of the room.

You can judge for yourself from the audio of the Town Hall how radical the citizens who attended actually are.