From the Bozeman Daily Chronicle:

Furthermore, Denowh said, Fox’s release of the complaint to the state press was not a violation of the Supreme Court rule because all the information contained in the complaint was already public record.

“Everything that is in that complaint was in the newspapers,” he said.

Boland, a trial lawyer and Democrat, acknowledged there is a law against autodial messages like the ones put out by his group, but said many politicians, including Gov. Brian Schweitzer and U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, have used them all the same.

“It’s widely understood that it (the law) is a violation of free speech,” he said.

No county attorney in Montana has ever tried to prosecute someone for violating the law.

Boland said he did not want Bruner, a Butte Republican, to win the attorney general election, but supported him in the primary because he thought Bruner would have been a better attorney general.

“I thought it would have been a better contest,” he said.

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